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Old 09-24-2013 | 11:43 PM
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]508535[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]508536[/ATTACH]

Ready to go back into the boat!!
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Old 09-25-2013 | 12:41 AM
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Looks good. Love that blue
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Old 09-25-2013 | 07:43 AM
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Steve did my new one for my Formula too, turned out perfect, ....................yours is turning out great too.
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Old 09-25-2013 | 08:02 AM
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Thanks!! Hoping to get it back in the boat this evening.
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Old 09-25-2013 | 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by HyFive578
Thanks!! Hoping to get it back in the boat this evening.
Isn't that scary removing all those wires and worrying about getting them all back to the correct gauges and you've got 3-4 more than me, I'm guessing you labeled them like I did, plus I took a few pics of the back of mine, post a pic when your 100% done.
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Old 09-25-2013 | 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by 314joey
Isn't that scary removing all those wires and worrying about getting them all back to the correct gauges and you've got 3-4 more than me, I'm guessing you labeled them like I did, plus I took a few pics of the back of mine, post a pic when your 100% done.
Yes, definitely a little unsettling but I was fanatical about labeling everything and I wrote down the color and specific terminal location of every single wire on the gauges as I disconnected. Also, as I was disconnecting everything in the boat, I made a checklist of everything I have to put back and reconnect. So in all, lots of tedious work but doing so made it very easy to put it all back together. I think the worst of it was reconnecting all of the LED's to the panel switches as all of those wires had to be cut; lots of soldering and shrink wrapping. But all worth it. I just hope everything still works when I reconnect it..

Will definitely post pic after it's back in.

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Old 09-25-2013 | 10:07 AM
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The shop installing my dash is going with a new harness where it splits towards the front. The square 8 wire plug. I am told, he will have it all hooked up and then just plug the harness in. Not sure if this is an option for your boat.
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Old 09-25-2013 | 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by joew.
The shop installing my dash is going with a new harness where it splits towards the front. The square 8 wire plug. I am told, he will have it all hooked up and then just plug the harness in. Not sure if this is an option for your boat.
My panel has two of those 8 wire plugs plus a whole lot of wires that connect with snap plugs. I've already done 99% of the work, so changing those at this point doesn't really make sense for me. I just have to reconnect the two plugs and snap the remaining wires back together and theyre all color coded.
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Old 09-25-2013 | 10:32 AM
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10-4. Looks great. I hope to post pics of mine soon.
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Old 09-26-2013 | 02:29 AM
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]508563[/ATTACH]

Mission accomplished!!! Got the dash installed back in the boat. Will have to take a daylight picture, but here's what it looked like after I finished tonight..
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