What i've been up to the past few days

idk what the hell i was thinking, i posted this in the other forum...i was looking for a picture and forgot i was on the site and posted it there...moron.

anyways...got tired of my mess of wires in my engine for all my lights. Especially the harness for my running board lights. I was originally using 12 gauge wire with a wire for each light (4 lights on each side) way too thick of wire. it looked like a big ass octopus lol. each bulb pulls .33amps so 12 AWG was over kill.

I made a whole new wiring harness with 16 gauge wire with one wire running to each side of the truck with 4 quick splices on each wire. Ordered a Hella relay socket from amazon, soldered every connection and shrink wrapped every solder. Professional **** right there


if you look to the right on the table on top of the yellow tool box you can see the big red coil of wire i was originally using for the wiring..


here's what the engine looked like when i swapped out the old harness for the new (it looked a lot worse but my dumb ass forgot to take a picture)


here's what it looks like now. i think it looks a lot better than before. all wires have been rerouted.


also ordered some post extenders from amazon for $5.00 with free 2 day shipping for prime members. they make the wires to the battery look a lot cleaner

 

Snapped a few pics too

 

sweet!! youll probably get better gas mileage now that your not luggin that bigass coil of wire around everywhere

 

serious lightfest going on there. nice truck

 

Looks good but there is still room for improvement. Auto Zone sells a fuse box with 6 slots to add accessories. You could run one wire from batt to the new fuse block, then run all those other wires to it. Makes for a clean installation.

 

haha yea it was unnecessarily large and friggin ugly. I've still got a little clean up to do. Zip ties do wonders

 

i like that idea lol built in relay or no?

 

looks sweet

 

thanks man

 

you betcha!!!