Hooking up Roush Boost Gauge ?

[kystang615]

Can anyone walk me through or point me in the right direction (i used search first and found a few things) on how to hook up my Roush mech Boost Gauge. I believe i just run the vacume from the back of the gauge to the port of opening on the back passanger side of the SC Manifold. If anyone knows, could you plese let me know. Thanks in adv...

 

[mikeyfitz]

Idk about on 5.0 but you should just have a vacuum line that you can T into

 

[ChiDiddy]

i believe theres a hole to tap into on the manifold for your roush on the passenger side. So you may be correct.

 

[mikeyfitz]

Ooops didn't read fully lol. You have a roushcharger

 

[kystang615]

Yup, so i assume i would tap that hole (haha) and run it straight into the back of the boost gauge?

 

[Brenspeed]

Correct. You will need to pull the plug on the back passenger side of the lower manifold. The plug is an allen head. Then go to the hardware and buy a fitting with a stem/nipple on the end and threads on the other to go down into the lower manifold. The vacuum line runs to the back of the gauge and the rest are just positive and negative wires for power to the gauge. We usually sneak into the cabin through the hole back behind the backside of the drivers side wheel well. Hope this helps!

Chandler

 

[kystang615]

Thanks chandler, that helps alot, now i just gota figure out where to tap into for the two wires..

 

[kystang615]

Got the gauge hooked up today, everything but not sure what are the best pos/neg wires to tap into for the lights to the gauge. Any suggestions??? Im not real good with wires

 

[kystang615]

Anyone Anyone????

 

[bingo2]

On my '10 it is the purple wire with the gray tracer on the headlight switch. You'll need a grounding point as well. I ran a wire behind the console to the factory grounding point behind the glove box.