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Hey all really hoping you can help me out with this one. I have started hacking apart my overhead console to accommodate my front driving lights, reverse driving lights and my scan gauge. I have everything fabbed up and just waiting for the face plate paint to dry so I ran the wires and scan gauge cable. problem is that my scan gauge cable is 1 to 2 inches short. I was looking at the OBDII port and it is held on by one bolt. question is if I am able to move that and mount it an inch higher to give me the play or if there is some sort of extension I can buy. thanks for the help, here are a few pics of the process and I will put up finished pics{hopefully today, that all depends on your guys advice).

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mipsco1 Enthusiast

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the cable is seperate but its a Obdii Port conection on the one end and like an eithernet cable on the other. by the looks of the clear end theres about 15 little wires running through it and I was hoping not having to tackle that.

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paint dried so I wanted to show you some pics.I made the cover out of and old drain pan i had kicking around. I still am not sure about the cable though

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Draenor Senior Enthusiast

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the cable is seperate but its a Obdii Port conection on the one end and like an eithernet cable on the other. by the looks of the clear end theres about 15 little wires running through it and I was hoping not having to tackle that.

Oh hell, thats an easy one. Go to radio shack and just get an extension cable on the RJ45(ethernet) side.

 

 

paint dried so I wanted to show you some pics.I made the cover out of and old drain pan i had kicking around. I still am not sure about the cable though

Looks good. I was thinking of getting one to keep an eye on things. Now I know where to put it. I'll have to add this to the list of mods to do.

 

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Thanks but finally got it with a whole lot of reafing. I really like how it turned out the only thing I should have done was tilted towards the driver so I had a better view of it but I thought that might make it look out of place. I have no prob seeing it just have to turn my head more than I thought.

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Spurshot Senior Enthusiast

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:withstupid: Great location and install.

 

You might try to see if that connector really is a ethernet type. If so, I'll bet a good computer/electronics store will have an extension or call the mfr of the unit.

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:withstupid: Great location and install.

 

You might try to see if that connector really is a ethernet type. If so, I'll bet a good computer/electronics store will have an extension or call the mfr of the unit.

 

It is! My truck I just ran a piece of cat5 down from the mirror and used a female to female RJ45 (I believe) connector. That way in case one of my other vehicles threw a code I could just take the factory Scan Gauge wiring out, which I had ziptied up under the dash, without having to pull the entire cable out of the headliner to check the code.

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thanks all. I know what you mean about the troggles. the only ones I found were these black ones though I have not really looked yet. I found some black push button but they were not the push once to open loop push once to close. I just threw these in to see how they look but now I need to find some nice short push buttons.

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