Tech Talk Tuesday: How to Wire the Dakota Digital RTX Gauges in a Dodge Challenger or Plymouth 'cuda

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[LifeatSpeed]

Some questions have come up regarding the wiring of the instrument cluster, so let me try and answer them here. For the two power wires I attached them to the open spots on the bottom of the factory fuse box, so no cutting required, just plug into the open ports. For the fuel sender you could use the factory wire for one of the wires, but the Dakota Digital kit requires 2 wires, one to attach to the normal location on the fuel sender and one to attach to the fuel sender as a ground. And since I had to run one wire to the tank anyways I decided to just run a pair of new wires and not cut the factory harness. As for the oil pressure and water temperature, yes they need new harnesses as they have new sensors that are not like the factory units. The factory water temp and oil pressure sensors have 1 wire each, the new water temp sensor has 2 wires and the oil pressure has 4. Plus the new sensors have special plugs on them. It's a lot easier to use what comes in the Dakota Digital kit than try and splice into the factory harness.

[alirezashirazifard]

Thank you for making it simple for us.

[throttleblip]

The part that sucks about Dakota digital is their control box... If you don't have space behind the dash you've got to run the thing across the whole vehicle and use an extra 6 ft wire

[SHOWandGOresto]

1...very interesting. Good to know about the senders fitting. I wonder and hope the brain box is reliable.

[orlandosantellano]

Thanks for the confidence great video and info

[alcc]

I run my parking lights during the day..will the dash light be too dim? I ask because I run Halo lights during the day and don’t want the dash light to be in night mode. Ideally I would like parking light in day time mode and when the headlights are on, (knob pulled all the way out) then night mode would be great. Any suggestion on how to accomplish that? Thanks

[calereeves]

How did you terminate the wires in the control box? Bare wires, or did you solder or crimp ferrules on them?

[OnederElite]

What do you hook up the white/black and white/green wires that plug into the back of the gauges into?

[carsonkelly]

Question: if you can answer, what if you have an HEI distributor and no coil, where do you hook up wire?

[metalbob]

I don't know if you have the factory facsimile for the model's tires or not but has it maintained it's accuracy of its speedometer or has it improved?

[andykattan]

I was waiting on how to install it, but dude just talked.

[superbirdrag]

What did you do with the old wires that went to the old cluster

[maro]

Nice video. Quick question, what type of lift do you have?

[Chris-]

Does it come with a gps speedo and does it come with the signal box to run the speedo

[claytonhaske]

Is there anyway to integrate the dimmer on the dakota digital dash into the factory dash dimmer switch? I'm going from a standard gauges to rally gauges, and don't have a 4 light bar.

[MysterBz]

How did you attach the negative to the body of the fuel sender?