Well, I see that you have blue lighting in your interior. IMO, you would love the Autometer Cobalt series which is a hot blue lighted gauge. There is a mechanical version that runs about $70 and electronic version that runs about $160. I got mine off ebay from these guys.

Here is a pic of them lit up.



This is the mechanical version.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/AutoM...spagenameZWDVW

To feed the vacuum line to the engine, from inside, look up under drivers side to the left of the steering wheel and you will see a boot that feeds everything into engine bay. Now go into engine bay and look in same area and you will see that side of the boot. Look close and you will see a little nipple or 2 sticking out from boot. Clip one and feed a coat hanger or something thru, tape the vacuum tube to it and pull it back thru to engine bay.

This is from Kaeon's how to: Here is the vacuum line location.


Remove this to access your vac line. Its under this plug.



Remove the line from the bottom of the plug





Place the T Fitting in the vac line and cut about an inche off the vac tube off



Flip the T around and plug it into the vac line you just cut.





Plug your Vac line into the plug.



Here is his WHOLE how to for this and other gauge installs. Takes a nimute or so to load....about 3/4 way down he starts the vacuum gauge.

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...ll+boost+gauge

 

You rock sir.

 

i'm trying to install my pulley, but i'm having trouble taking off the bolt from the stock pulley. it keeps on spinning. it's quite annoying. having it in 1st gear doesn't help! lol.

all i've been using is just a regular socket wrench to attack that bolt. what tools did you use to remove the pulley as well as the rest of the install? i'm going to finish it later on today.

did you mess with the belt tensioner? i've heard some people say you need to loosen the belt tension bolt to loosen the belt... while others seem to not have messed with the belt tensioner at all.

any pointers would be extremely helpful. i don't want to break my s/c, lol. and i know i don't want to take it to a shop and pay more $$$ for what everyone states was a simple install.

 

did you read the rest of the thread?

 

yes i did. alright, off i go to try and work on it again.

 

You may find it easiest to put the car in gear, set the parking brake, and loosen (but don't remove) the pulley bolt. Then loosen the belt tensioner, pull the old pulley off, and install the new pulley., Pay attention to the pull key and keyway..

Once the new pulley is on, verfiy the belt is all lined up and torque down the bolt to the spec listed our install manual.


A good strap wrench will work, but a $2 harbor freight special probably won't.