Paveltolz
Доверяй, но проверяй
Its been a while since I've done anything fun to/for the truck. Spent the last several months chasing other issues like front differential (written up), CV half shafts (see diff thread), tunes (just some lab rat stuff for Bill), Air Dog LP shutting down (dying relay) and some mosquito killer issues. Anyway, I had some LED lighting strips left over from the bed rail project last summer so I decided to light up the engine bay. Why not?
I cleaned up the cross members under the hood, the underside of the leading edge of the hood and the fire wall above where the FFM used to be.
Wiring was tricky what with seven different light bars but Waytech sells many options. Initially I tried an 'easier' way but... So, I chose a splice bar with ten positions and jumped five each positive and negative to get the hood lights taken care of. The short bar on the fire wall I spliced in to the power leads. The whole thing is on its own switch with power coming from a "T" splice in the under hood lamp.
Here's the mess all connected up. Each connection and splice was done with heat shrink connectors and I put a fair helping of NoA Lox on each of the splice bar connections before tightening everything up.
I secured the splice block and wires to the hood using adhesive mounts for zip-ties to pass through.
I placed a heavy bead of silicon over the splice bar to keep water out and let it set up a bit before putting the hood liner back in place. I didn't get a shot of the silicon mess but you've all seen one before.
Lights on.
The final effect is quite pleasing.
I cleaned up the cross members under the hood, the underside of the leading edge of the hood and the fire wall above where the FFM used to be.
Wiring was tricky what with seven different light bars but Waytech sells many options. Initially I tried an 'easier' way but... So, I chose a splice bar with ten positions and jumped five each positive and negative to get the hood lights taken care of. The short bar on the fire wall I spliced in to the power leads. The whole thing is on its own switch with power coming from a "T" splice in the under hood lamp.
Here's the mess all connected up. Each connection and splice was done with heat shrink connectors and I put a fair helping of NoA Lox on each of the splice bar connections before tightening everything up.
I secured the splice block and wires to the hood using adhesive mounts for zip-ties to pass through.
I placed a heavy bead of silicon over the splice bar to keep water out and let it set up a bit before putting the hood liner back in place. I didn't get a shot of the silicon mess but you've all seen one before.
Lights on.
The final effect is quite pleasing.
