Hi All,

I'm slowly but surely adding gauges and peripheral lighting (some stuff for the bed) and am trying to come up with a clean wiring harness solution--preferably NOT cutting the OEM harness. I'm hoping the electrical gurus can help.

I need power for gauge lightning (either with the OEM dimming ability or it's own rheostat), power for several electrical gauges, ground, and power for bed-mounted lighting.

Any suggestions on the cleanest way to do this? Right now I'm running stuff with fuse taps, but it's just not clean. I'd like to tap a panel, create a new fuse block, and run everything off of the new block--if that makes any sense.

Any suggestions are more than welcome as to how to do this.

Regards,
Rip

 

I've got a separate fuseblock by the batt. it works great! It takes ten minutes to hook up any thing and I don't have to unhook the batt.
Gauge lighting is low power so tapping into the harness by stripping a section of insul. without cutting the wire and a solder connection is best.

 

Can you suggest the appropriate parts? I get how it's supposed to work, but have never done this type of thing before. I just want to minimize any access to the stock electrical system.

I was looking at some stuff by Painless just to keep it neat...

Thanks,
Rip