Wiring in Durite gauges

Firstly, let me say I am absolutely clueless about auto electrics. So, now we know where we stand going forward

I have bought some Raptor Engineering stuff and have gone for new Durite gauges. Typically the back of the gauges are as the photo. Question is, what do I have to do to get the wiring loom pictured to match up with the wires on the gauges or vice versa?

pay an auto electrician.

label all the wires / connectors before you........ oh, oh dear, never mind.

Can I just ask why your going into the loom. Why not run a positive feed in series and link the earth the the body, then for the lights come back in from the positive to each gauge and run a wire to either the dash lights or light switch, in case you can always run a fuse on the positive feed to the gauges.

Of course this all depends what the gauges are for.

This is a link to my old thread about fitting a Raptor instrument cluster c/w Durite gauges, no wiring details sorry to say (didn't see the point as it was all a straight swop) but shows it is easily done.
https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/raptor-defender-binnacle.277404/page-3

Grezzer said:

Can I just ask why your going into the loom. Why not run a positive feed in series and link the earth the the body, then for the lights come back in from the positive to each gauge and run a wire to either the dash lights or light switch, in case you can always run a fuse on the positive feed to the gauges.

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Sorry, can you put that into English please? You did read my opening line to this thread didn't you?

Litch said:

This is a link to my old thread about fitting a Raptor instrument cluster c/w Durite gauges, no wiring details sorry to say (didn't see the point as it was all a straight swop) but shows it is easily done.
https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/raptor-defender-binnacle.277404/page-3

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Thanks Litch, had a good read through. So how did you get the feed to each gauge for their lights?

Have a look ere for the wiring colours: http://www.autoelectricsupplies.co.uk/cms/files/colour_code_for_vehicle_wiring_-_new_order_2.pdf
It should be "just" a matter of fitting connectors onto the new gauges and matching up the correct colours.

Karls said:

Thanks Litch, had a good read through. So how did you get the feed to each gauge for their lights?

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I just put a connector onto each of the fly-leads and then put them into multi-way bullet connectors, from there I ran a single +VE & -VE to the relevant connector that fed the old back-lights.