Cattivo
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Thanks brother...its 70 degrees out on March 1 and pouring outside! The Hoe is full of boxes that need to be installed...Damn you mother nature! lol
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Thanks brother...its 70 degrees out on March 1 and pouring outside! The Hoe is full of boxes that need to be installed...Damn you mother nature! lol
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Holy moly it's March already, damn February flew by!!
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Mother nature is a beyotch!!
Cattivo
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Cattivo
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Yea she is! I just got soaked...again lol
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It's been a tough day to work on the Hoe weather wise, like Tony said...Motha nature is a beyotch!!! It stopped raining for an hour so I got to install the new grille today but I'm still not sure if I'm putting any light bars behind the grille(definitely not hacking this one up)
I also began running 12 awg speaker wire in the other rear door but it started raining again... Hopefully I can get more accomplished tomorrow
I also began running 12 awg speaker wire in the other rear door but it started raining again... Hopefully I can get more accomplished tomorrow
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Cattivo
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Always run wires through the grommets
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Once again mother nature showed her sick sense of humor today...70 degrees yesterday, felt like -30 today with 60mph winds wtf! lol
Since it was too cold to do anything outside, I focused on the interior today. First I had to cut out the plastic and the rest of that PIA metal bracket to make room for all the wire I need to run for the hu and a few other things.
OOPS! cut a few wires with the hole saw lol
had to tape a flashlight to the shifter to do a little splicing
All fixed, electricity doesn't know or care what color wires its spliced to as long as it completes the circuit
Since it was too cold to do anything outside, I focused on the interior today. First I had to cut out the plastic and the rest of that PIA metal bracket to make room for all the wire I need to run for the hu and a few other things.
OOPS! cut a few wires with the hole saw lol
had to tape a flashlight to the shifter to do a little splicing
All fixed, electricity doesn't know or care what color wires its spliced to as long as it completes the circuit
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Cattivo
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Plenty of room now
I came up with a new way to do the blue led mod on the ac controls without having to do any soldering.
Start by cutting out the old bulbs flush with the bottom of the panel, push whatever old strands of wire from the old bulb in opposite directions and drop a small amount of glue on top of them so they don't touch or short out.
*IMPORTANT* make sure you mark the location of the existing bulbs with a sharpee before adding any glue
gently bend the blue led bulb on a 90 degree angle so you don't break the resistor and glue in place
Top and bottom row all glued in place
Do not block the hole with the black arrow so you can screw the bottom piece back in place
I came up with a new way to do the blue led mod on the ac controls without having to do any soldering.
Start by cutting out the old bulbs flush with the bottom of the panel, push whatever old strands of wire from the old bulb in opposite directions and drop a small amount of glue on top of them so they don't touch or short out.
*IMPORTANT* make sure you mark the location of the existing bulbs with a sharpee before adding any glue
gently bend the blue led bulb on a 90 degree angle so you don't break the resistor and glue in place
Top and bottom row all glued in place
Do not block the hole with the black arrow so you can screw the bottom piece back in place
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Cattivo
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Make sure you bring a power supply to test the led's before remounting the ac control cover back on
Just like I did with my door switch led bulbs, I'm going to hook them up to my parking/headlights
Here is where to find a 12v feed from the parking/headlights...on the grey connector that plugs into the ac control is a grey/greenish looking wire next to a solid blue wire that will give you 12v only when the parking/headlights are on
This is how it should look after everything is wired...I also added a wire loom to protect the wires
Make sure to leave plenty of slack in case you have to go into that area again or you can install a quick disconnect like I did...I also installed disconnects on all 4 doors to make life easier next time I remove the door panels
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Just like I did with my door switch led bulbs, I'm going to hook them up to my parking/headlights
Here is where to find a 12v feed from the parking/headlights...on the grey connector that plugs into the ac control is a grey/greenish looking wire next to a solid blue wire that will give you 12v only when the parking/headlights are on
This is how it should look after everything is wired...I also added a wire loom to protect the wires
Make sure to leave plenty of slack in case you have to go into that area again or you can install a quick disconnect like I did...I also installed disconnects on all 4 doors to make life easier next time I remove the door panels
LOT OF 20 WAGO 873 2-pole Pushwire Connectors For Luminaire Disconnect **NEW** | eBay
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