Ammeter to Voltmeter...who does it?

Heres what it should look like installed to ammeter face. I clipped the plastic needle leaving a short stub and super glued the ammeter needle on. I am going to run a denso alternator with a fault light so I modded mine for a red fault light. Pic 2 you remove the red shaded area so the needle can swing.

Pic 3 shows 2 wires coming out of the back of the panel. The red jumper feeds the volt gage off the 12v gage feed. I ended up eliminating the black wire and ran the volt gage ground lug right to the metal gage housing. I shimmed both gage studs to get the right height. On the negative stud I used steel washers, and sanded the gage housing to bare metal in that spot to help a ground.

On the positive stud side, I enlarged the gage housing hole and used a plastic grommet from the sun gage mounting hardware to insulate it, and stacked up plastic washers on both inside and outside of the gage housing on the positive stud to insulate it from shorting to ground.

The pot on the back you can fine tune we here you want the needle to sit at 13.5V. I set mine slightly above half on the gage.

Take your ammeter feed wires and bolt them together and cover them with either tape, or shrink tubing and shove em back into the harness. I used 2 layers of shrink tubing on mine

I hope this helps you with what you need to do

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Yep, definitely a big help. I like the idea of using jumper wire to feed wire. I had just test fit mine into stud holes when I noticed the center housing for the gauge wire housing clip was preventing the voltmeter from swinging properly. So just grind it away? (the shaded area). Maybe I'll wrap the cut away area with some white electric tape, (I am thinking there may be light loss through bleeding out of the cut away area)? Also, curious so a very simple way to do the MAD ammeter bypass is to just disconnect the ammeter and fuse the two wires (RED/BLACK) together either by bolting, soldering etc.
then stuff them back into the harness (Obviously shrink tube/insulate them) Nice!
Obviously these two mods would go hand in hand.

PS nice work on the red warning light from the alternator as well. Redundancy and safety also go hand in hand.
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