Scangauge, simple and easy mount for our trucks!

[garyo]

A thin but strong L-bracket, pushed down on top of the driver’s side air vent. Where the soft outer ring meets with the dash. My bracket was about 1-½” long on that part of the bracket, I just pushed it down in the crack. It seems to be tight enough. The bracket is 1-3/4” wide, I think anything up to about 2-1/4” width bracket would work.

 

The cable runs down the side of the air vent trim ring following along under and then into the seam by the removable fuse cover. I used a side cutter to notch out a spot where the cable would enter the fuse area. Don’t forget to chamfer the sharp edges of the cover so nothing sharp can cut into the cable.

 

Then you can route the extra cable down through the hole under the lower edge of the fuse cover which is part of the lower door trim and pull just the OBDII connector enough to reach the DLC which is just a couple of inches inboard.

 

I bent the L-bracket to get the correct viewing angle for me. I also cut off the extra so it would be even with the mounted gauge. Make sure not to mount it too close to Instrument Panel hood. I mounted mine about 1-1/2” away so the plugged-in cable would have a gentle bend going straight down. Scangauge included tape-mount Velcro, which is what I used to mount the gauge to the bracket. Then I used some very thin strips of 3M VHB behind the cable as it ran down the trim.

 

See pics below

Also anybody know what to do with the HPR gauge? How does Scangauge calculate it? Seems useless to me.

garyo