Old School Alarm Install - Need Help!!! All Plungers
 

Hey guys heres the scoop

I bought this sweet ass old school alarm this week off ebay for a buck, cheap insruance. Its a CAL Custom hawk and its from 82'

It seems fairly easy to install but I dont get a few things

Its a key activated alarm with 6 plunger type things that when they are openned sounds the alarm (door/hood/trunk is openned) but I dont get how to wire it

These plunger switches I dont get

This is what the diagram looks like

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...d/eff1c4e1.jpg

Notice hwo theres 2 wires going to the first one and only 1 to the rest, why? i'll type up the explanation diagram now, I dont get how to connect the wire to these, I dont get what completes the circuit since the whole plunger is metal, it would all be conductive wouldnt it be?

Like its got these plungers that are there own unit

It seems like I would just take the one wire straight from the control box, its gray, run it to the plunger, this is a single wire, I just stirp the insulation wire and tie it around the bottom of the plunger and with this single wire make my way to the next plunger

[b]ALSO- for the siren, it came with this fairly large like 5" siren, it has 2 wires form it, in the diagram it shows one wire going to the battery (with an inline fuse 5A that I dont have do I need it? Where do I tap this battery wire into?) and the other wire goes to the yellow on the box

I DONT WANT TO USE THIS SIREN

I have a spare more modern siren, it has a a black wire with a red stripe and one that is solid red, can I swap in this siren? I would think the solid red goes to the battery with fuse line and the black one with red stripe would to to the control box?

Or is this just a siren where red is pwoer and black is ground. Id like to use this because its more descreet and probably louder

Thanks

Re: Old School Alarm Install - Need Help!!! All Plungers
 

i think the 1st "plunger" is a switch as the key switch to either activate or deactivate it. the rest is spring activated switch like your interior light door switch. the switches need to be mounted to a metal surface to provide ground...so when you open the door/trunk/hood, the switch will pop up & ground the gray wire to the body. as for the siren, it's just a speaker w/ pos & neg leads, so yes you can use your smaller siren...the black/red strip wire is ground so it should go to the yellow & the red wire goes to the battery (normally on current alarm systems that i have installed, the siren just needs to be ground, since the power is being feed by the control box...just so you know this is a very crude alarm system. you can get a decent alarm for cheap these days!! and it's not that hard to install).
i would suggest to get the pos power from the power distribution box near the battery & put the 5A fuse (this sounds like the only power you're getting for the whole alarm system) . try to make it blend into the engine bay as in get wire loop & wrapping it & tying it off to the rest of the wiring harness in the engine bay.
if you need for help, hit me up.

Re: Old School Alarm Install - Need Help!!! All Plungers
 

if you get tired of trying to figure it out or just want a better alarm i have a brand new Clifford Matrix 10 alarm with two remotes never installed that i'd sell ya ;D they retail for about $400 but i'll cut ya a good deal on it, its just been sitting in my garage for about 7 months because im too lazy to install it

but good luck wirein it up, one of these days i might actualy get off my ass and wire mine up if i still have it, lol

Re: Old School Alarm Install - Need Help!!! All Plungers
 

Find the flux capacitor provided in your kit, set 1982 on the control box, and then go 88mph. Once you're back in 1982, ask them. :P