Need Electrical Help Quick

[magnumminded]

I had my gauge cluster sent to Redline Gauge Works to have my amp gauge converted to a voltmeter and a voltage limiter installed in the back of my gauges. I went to install the gauges in the car as it was before and I got nothing. I called up Redline Gauge Works and they informed me that I needed to connect to the main power wires together.

I did that but, I did not ground my cluster back to the dash frame or put it back in. As I wanted to make sure that the gauges still worked after my 1st attempt. I try to start the car twice and on the second attempt all my fuses were blown.

So, the question for some of you that had work done with them do I need to do anything else to cluster or wires? Or should I install the cluster back in into the dash frame? Would that create a ground?

It is a 68 Coronet with the bar 120 speedo and no tach/clock on it? They did not send any instructions with my gauges on how to hook it up and I am hoping to get my car running as I am pizzed they did not send instructions nor they did apologize when I had called.

Anyways, it is 3 days before the Nats and I am supposed to leave Friday. I am pizzed my car is not running because of this issue and my wife is pizzed at me. Maybe someone can chime in. Still wondering if the dash frame acts a s a ground for the instrumenter cluster?

 

[70WM21 W1 V6B]

Yes the dash frame acts as a ground for the cluster housing. Make sure your battery is disconnected as you install it. Check your pins on the circuit board carefully. If you notice the small bolts that hold the circuit board onto the housing are surrounded by a copper circuit which is a ground that runs thru the circuit board and to the cluster housing, so the when the housing is secured to the dash frame it completes the ground.

 

[morbidgoat]

with the gauges not grounded and trying to start the car should not have blown your fuses maybe you accidentally touched the main power wire to the ground that could possibly fry your fuses. so you took the two wires that used to be on each side of the am-meter and and connected them together? how did you go about this solder and heat shrink or what? keep in mind that what ever you did here it needs to be insulated and dont forget these are a constant hot wire so you could be in some serious trouble if it arcs out on something (blown fuses if lucky fire if unlucky)