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Upgraded headlight looms

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 5:14 pm
by Puk
Was someone selling these on here a while ago?
I need one and don't have the ability or knowledge to make them myself.

I am going to gaffer tape my mag-lite to the bull-bar otherwise. :roll:

I am going for the whole replacement globes, loom, and driving lights thing. I hate not being able to see the road ahead.

Puk

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 6:18 pm
by MART
Just use your original headlight wiring to operate relays. I run hella relays , I have the twin relay setup with 20a fuses. I use a relay for low beam and one for highbeam so I have two of these , one on each side and use a third to run my spot lights , one relay each. I use 4mm cable to feed 12 volt from battery , so they are bright as , I run 90/130 bulbs in the head lights and 130 watt in driving lights , this allows enough power to stop the fillaments becoming brittle and breaking , you would not believe the difference. The relays are about $25 dollars each , Cheers Paul.

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 7:35 pm
by St Jimmy
try this http://www.gojeep-xj.info/ he makes his own :scatter: [/u]

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:09 pm
by MART
Puk , what model have you got , do you have white/red as earth on back of light and red/white as low beam and solid red as highbeam , these are on the plug that plugs into the headlight , mine is a 84/85 model , if you don't know which one is which just see if the colours are the same , Cheers Paul.

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:40 pm
by MART
If this is usefull , see how you go , Supercheap sell these relays for about $25 dollars. You will need two for your normal headlights and 1 extra to do two spotties

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The light earth of the headlight connector is white/red

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When you need to add spotty relay I will do another drawing. When running the 4mm accross the engine bay I ran it in front of the radiator up the top of front apron and I ran it inside some black garden watering pipe to protect it from being chaffed , Cheers Paul.

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:08 pm
by Puk
Thanks mate,
even i can follow that!

Puk

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:29 pm
by NIK
Paul thats great!! This is on my going to list but youve made it look so easy. :armsup: for Paul
Nik

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:44 pm
by MART
Diagram for spotties , see how you go , Cheers Paul.


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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:04 pm
by j-top paj
just use relays and triger them of your original wiring

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 11:04 pm
by j-top paj
oops, didnt see the diagrams already shown

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:39 am
by Zute
This needs to go in the Bible.

Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:19 pm
by j-top paj
good idea ;)

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:36 pm
by Puk
BTW,
I ended up buying an upgraded loom for less cost than i reckon i could make one for. No soldering, just plug it in and bolt one wire direct onto the battery.

The difference in UNBELIEVABLE! :armsup: :armsup:

thanks Potter.

Puk

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:02 pm
by Danzo
Puk wrote:BTW,
I ended up buying an upgraded loom for less cost than i reckon i could make one for. No soldering, just plug it in and bolt one wire direct onto the battery.

The difference in UNBELIEVABLE! :armsup: :armsup:

thanks Potter.

Puk
Can you get any more looms?

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 8:50 pm
by Puk
PM Potter.

Puk

P.S. Now that's some cool alliteration :armsup:

Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:46 pm
by croatian4x4
how many $$ are we talking about in buying an upgraded loom??

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:04 am
by Puk
He did it for $75, with 2 relays and a big fuse block, all soldered, and said that he could do one with wiring for spotties as well for an extra $20. Perfect for someone who knows nothing about auto-electrics, it is truly plug-n-play. :armsup:

It even removed the "negative/positive" switching problem that a lot of people have when they try to wire spotties up to the high beam wire (you know that thing where the high beams come back on when everything else gets switched off?) :bad-words:

I recommend it. I had gone to h4 halogen insert lights and put 100w globes in there. I am dropping back to 55w globes. The wiring loom upgrade makes a lot more difference than the globes.

Puk

Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:43 am
by Sean
Sorry for the grave dig.

I am looking at installing four spotties. Can i use two lots of the wiring diagram for spotlights. Of course i will need 1 relay per pair.

Cheers,
Sean

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:07 pm
by Ash R33
i went to supercheap and couldnt find the same relay. Seems most places in town do mostly Narva. Do you know what kinda relay it is. So when i go in they can find something the same?

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:17 pm
by St Jimmy
bump please put in bible

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:18 pm
by j-top paj
boner59 wrote:bump please put in bible
PM a mod to put it in the bible..

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:55 am
by St Jimmy
Lay80n can you please put this in the bible

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:45 am
by lay80n
boner59 wrote:Lay80n can you please put this in the bible
:cool:
I am having issues with my net access at work at the moment, so a few threads that i have added recently may not show. Soon as i fix my :bad-words: computer the modified bible post will be uploaded.

Layto....