Yeah, I looked at the wires, they're definitely intact and fine... I disconnected the plug for it and reconnected it, made sure it was all dry... made sure my pcm connectors were all dry and reconnected them, reconnected the battery again.. same thing, except when I started it this time it idled really high, like 2k for a few seconds before it settled down to 1k, and then down to like 700 where it normally is. (Maybe just from the battery and pcm being unplugged?) Ugh, I've got a trip on saturday and this is pissing me off. I borrowed the obdII scanner from work to keep an eye on my coolant temps... the temps are displaying, so does that mean the coolant temp sensor is functioning? Is it a different sensor that operates the guage?

Just seems connected to me that I had this electrical problem "charging system failure", the guage was still working, then I unplugged and reconnected the battery and suddenly no guage... all other gauges are fine