Devil is in the Details

On Thursday we looked at how we would put the guages in and made some final adjustments to the battery rack. The clearance between the rack and the motor mount plate was a little tight, so we ground some material off the mount plate. We also fixed the hood release, it needed to have a spring replaced.
On Saturday we finished the mounting of the plate that will hold the controller and we mounted the gauges in the dash and ran the wires for their illumination. We tapped into the dimmer control wires. Our first attempt gave us unintended results. When the dimmer was low the lights were bright, and visa versa. We had to change the wires we used, then it worked fine. We went nautical with the right hand gauge green (starboard) and the left hand gauge red (port).
Then some 2 sided tape to mount them in front of the old gas and temperature gauges. They are looking good!!