Wiring, Temp gauge wire, which one is the Hot lead? Changing use?

[DakotaKid]

On the engine harness plug there are 2 wires for the temp sender. a Dark Green and a Light green from whati can see on the diagrams. I am going to eliminate these, but would liek to use the Power feed from this to run my electric choke. Is this possible? I have a set of aftermarket electrical gauges so i am not using the factory stuff and it would be easy to just change that wire over.

[ray_mcavoy]

Neither one of those wires is a power feed that would be suitable as-is for your electric choke.

The dark green wire operates the "HOT" light. And the light green wire operates the "COLD" light. Both of these wires lead back to their respective bulbs in the instrument cluster. And the temperature switch completes each circuit to ground to illuminate the bulbs.

To make use of one of those wires for your electric choke, you'd have to locate the other end under the dash and disconnect it from the instrument cluster connector. Then re-route it to a power feed that is switched via the ignition (adding an inline fuse would be a good idea too).

[DakotaKid]

Thats exactly what i needed to know. Thank you for your reply. wasnt sure how that worked but that makes perfect sense.