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JR,

Website is dakotadigital.com

Les,

Gauge install was really easy - the mounting posts were fairly close to the printed circuit board, so I cut them back a bit. The wiring was really easy. Power came from the red in the gauge harness, ground was to one of the ground studs on a gauge, and the gray display wire connected to the dimmer circuit on the Dakota box - no outside wiring required.

The greater task is to re & re the tires to mount the sensors.

Had a bit of a concern when I got a call from Newstalgia that they couldn't mount the sensors - the sensors need to go into the deepest part of the rim to protect them during tire re & re - and that's the exact spot that Colorado Custom picked to install the recessed tire valves. They got them in, but it was a bit tricky. If anyone is thinking deep dish soft lip wheels, I would request mounting the tire valves on the beveled part of the rim, facing front. I'm including a close-up of the wheel to show what I mean. The small button with the slot is the access to the tire valve. A valve stem screws into it for inflating purposes. It's also a pain in the arse to inflate - not much space between the rotor and the valve, especially on the 19" fronts. If they were mounted in the valley on the bevel, they could use a short valve stem, rather than the button design - just one of those live and learn situations. Sure wouldn't want to have to inflate a tire after the brakes got smoking hot on a long downhill run.

Did discover one tidbit that is poorly addressed in Dakota's instructions - I was trying to "learn" the sensor positions at dusk in my driveway, and nothing was happening. Found a rather vague notation in the instructions that if the dimmer circuit was on, the system defaulted to factory presets. Disconnected the dimmer wire from the Dakota box, and everything worked fine. I guess I would never have discovered that rather useless piece of information if I had done this in daylight.

Ray