OE harness with aftermarket gauges.

[MTBLAZER89]

As I understand it aftermarket gauges use their own sensors. What do you do with the OE harness? I was planning on doing new wiring for the gauges since I have removed all the HVAC, Cruise, A/C, Power door, and interior lighting pieces of the wiring.
Cover it up and tie it out of the way?
Cut it out at the fusebox?

 

[onetonbb74]

I ran the gm wiring, cut off the connector at the stock cluster after labeling and ran new wires to the new guages/cluster. Put a weatherpack connector at the cluster so its removeable without cutting wires. Also ran a few mechanical senders through the firewall which makes removal annoying. Im not using a few stock wires and i just capped them and labeled them.

 

[paratrooper307]

^ This. They use their own sensors, but since these trucks run direct wiring from factory sensors to the factory gauges (as opposed to going through a body module or computer) in many cases you can use the same wiring with new sensors. This makes it so you can use existing fuse protection and don't have to run new wiring, just modify any connectors and role with it. Never hurts to add some good grounds as well, and separate/remove what you don't need anymore. I'd go that route unless your current wiring is in bad shape.

 

[86454K30]

Great question, I've wondered that myself. I keep drooling over the syndicate series gauges.

 

[86454K30]

It would be nice if someone would make a female plug to plug into the factory plug....like they do for stereo. These trucks are popular enough now that I'd think they'd sell.

 

[paratrooper307]

It would be nice if someone would make a female plug to plug into the factory plug....like they do for stereo. These trucks are popular enough now that I'd think they'd sell.

Maybe, although you've probably got a much larger market of people changing out stereos than gauges. It would be a nice option for those that want the ability to go back to stock if needed.

 

[MTBLAZER89]

^ This. They use their own sensors, but since these trucks run direct wiring from factory sensors to the factory gauges (as opposed to going through a body module or computer) in many cases you can use the same wiring with new sensors. This makes it so you can use existing fuse protection and don't have to run new wiring, just modify any connectors and role with it. Never hurts to add some good grounds as well, and separate/remove what you don't need anymore. I'd go that route unless your current wiring is in bad shape.

Yeah I had thought about using the existing wiring. I guess at this point it would be pretty easy. I have removed almost all of the "extra" harnesses. I have relay panels, fuse box, bus bars etc to rewire the cab as needed already too.