Guages

Well this week at lawson's we were actually quite busy, my grandpa decided that it was time to replace the heads on his 1970 gs. So we went ahead and decided to do that the other night. Which overall that took us most of the night, taking us about 3 hours. But it wasn't that bad of a job, just time consuming. But then once we had that done, we went ahead and started working on my truck. This week we went ahead and hooked up my pod guages that are in the custom holder for the ;pillar on the driver side of the door. And to be completely honest, it wasn't very fun at all. First we had to hook up the water temp guage, which i had to pull out the whole dash face just to get to the hole in the firewall to run the cord, to the rear end of the block to plug the core plug in for it to work.
Then we had to work on the fuel guage which also runs all the way through the dash from left to right, but instead of running through the firewall, we had to drill a hole in the floor board just to get it to the position to hook it up the the reeling pod. Then once we had it hooked up to the reeling pod, we could then reroute it through the firewall to run to the oem fuel plate plug. which that is when it got hard, we had to try to splice, and burn, and twist, and turn just to try to get it to finally go in to where its suppose to, but it never worked. So we finally just tied it, i know its not the best way to deal with it, but after dealing with it for the long i was sick and tired of it.
Lastly, i had my oil pressure guage, which was the worst one of all. It was this guage, that made me never ever want to hook these dumb things up ever again. Like the other three, it ran through the dash all the way out the back of the firewall through a little hole down by the gas pedals, which is where i decided to ground the guages in the first place. Then once i made it through the fire wall i ran the pump and cord down the rear left side of the block all the way around the bottom, and up the other side. Once i had gotten it there i had drained all the oil out of the block and removed the oem plug. Then i spliced to to wires together, oem and the aftermarket guage ones and regrounded them and ran them to the battery again.
After that all i had to do was put the guage pod right back up on the pillar, to the left of the driver side seat, then i had to put my dash all back to gether, and we could call it a good night. But i had forgot to ground and wire all of the lights for the guages so i went ahead and did that really quick and go them working and called it a night.