Oh woah, hold on there. You mean you literally wired your check engine light up as an independent light and NOT somewhere in your gauge cluster?
I've also got a few more questions to prick the brain of anybody reading this:
1) Will I be able to add a quick detach steering wheel to this (1979) steering column?
2) Aside from the radio, is there anything else electric on the dashboard? (mine was taken apart when I got it so IDK about switches- I know climate control is all mechanical)
3) is there a dash face that doesn't have that radio cutout? Or maybe one that has a cutout for a single din radio? I haven't been able to find one
Yes, that's what I'm telling you. The bulb in the cluster isnt anything special. There are two wires that operate the cel and you can run them to any bulb you want. What would have been cool is if my cel was wired in place of my seatbelts warning light in the cluster.
I told you the purple (violet in the manual) wire from the ecu is one of them. It sends ground signals from the ecu to the bulb. It was bugging me that I didnt know where the other wire was coming from. So, Looking at a wiring diagram, the other wire makes it's way from the cel to the engine fuse and will have a constant 12v with the ignition on. You can verify this with the wiring diagram in your manual.
