Hi,
The easy solution would be to install fusible links in each wire going to
the Amp meter in the cab so the link melts like it was designed "in case of
a short" and saves your wiring.
The other solution would be to send the output voltage of the alternator to
the starter terminal that connects to the battery cable. You could then buy
a voltmeter gauge for your cluster that looks like the original gauge you
took out but is a voltmeter.
I would still install a 12 ga. fusible link in the main feed wire from the
starter into the cab.
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: SurfDudeSC@aol.com <SurfDudeSC@aol.com>
To: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, May 03, 2002 4:48 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] Could they have been that stupid to put all those amps
through a voltmeter?
>So I'm rewiring my 57 GMC 1/2 ton and behold.
>
>Start solenoid (battery) -- to -- discharge side of voltmeter.
>Alternator primary -- to -- charge side of voltmeter.
>Ignition switch (battery terminal) -- to -- charge side of voltmeter.
>
>All 10 guage red primary wire with battery amperage running through one
tiny
>little voltmeter in a steel dash in the cab waiting to short out and fry
>right before my eyes (or my 15 year old son's, see its his truck I just do
>all the mechanical work on it).
>
>THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY!!! Any advice appreciated to get those amps
>outside of the cab where they belong. Thanks. David
>
>57 GMC 1/2 ton, original 270 engine.
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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