By Tommy Dougherty on Friday, November 02, 2001 - 02:23 pm: Edit

Hey folks,

How do you run the wires up to your roof mounted lights??

I was thinking along the side of the windshield, along top of windshield and then to the lights. (I don't want to drill a hole in my roof...)

Thanks!
-Tommy

By gp (Garrett) on Friday, November 02, 2001 - 02:33 pm: Edit

all i did was use electrical tape and bound them nice and tight. then i just ran them down along the leg(s) of my rack and along the windshield gasket. if your wires are not too heavy you can stuff them in the space in the gaskey pretty good. then i just ran them along the engine bay under the hood to my lead wires. either while on the road or on tight trails with many branches they have yet to come loose.
someone else posted about this earlier and they ran them along the windshield as well and drilled holes in the gasket and used zip ties to secure the wires. that was pretty sweet, but i was not going to go that far with it. and mine are less conspicuous and work just fine for me.

By charlie on Friday, November 02, 2001 - 02:48 pm: Edit

How do you run the switch to the interior?
---charlie

By Ron on Friday, November 02, 2001 - 02:50 pm: Edit

There is a little rubber bung behind the brake booster area on the firewall that you remove and then cut a hole in and runt he wires in that way.

ron

By gp (Garrett) on Friday, November 02, 2001 - 02:54 pm: Edit

ron. you said bung!!

i used the existing switch that is next to the master cruise control button. since i have taken my airdam off i no longer have my fog lights.

By Steve (Steve2) on Friday, November 02, 2001 - 03:09 pm: Edit

bung is english speak for a rubber stoppy jobby - as used in chemistry class whilst engaged in experiments and the like.... (ahh 3rd form was so much fun...)

steve

By gp (Garrett) on Friday, November 02, 2001 - 03:21 pm: Edit

ahhhhh. i didn't know ron was english. he never uses those cool words like 'whilst' and such.

don't ask him what he calls the reciever shackle. just don't.

By Ron on Friday, November 02, 2001 - 03:26 pm: Edit

Our what we call our wheeling buddies.

Or what we call cross cut pliars.

I am not english but my family was of Canadian/English decent so occasionally you will get a bugger or bloody or good nick or sorted out of me. I really like the word sorted.

By Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) on Friday, November 02, 2001 - 03:31 pm: Edit

Dykes, or rather, dikes.... somehow a corruption of Diag, as in diagonal cutters.... I've gotten plenty of looks over that one... "Hand me that pair of...."


When I first met my now-wife, I used the phrase "I've yet to..." She swore that I couldn't have been from East TN originally if I said that....

-L

(Go back 200 years, and all of my family was already in East TN, western NC, or southern VA... Go back farther, and all but 2 were from the British Isles... one from Switzerland, the other a Cherokee... the rest of me is Scots/ Irish/ Welsh/ English....)

By lynden on Friday, November 02, 2001 - 04:30 pm: Edit

I think Rover is in your blood. I think being of English descent makes you want a rover and long to own one. Dad's Canadian, great grandfater from England. You know too that really we're all just a bunch of Vikings as they pillaged and settled the English Isles...
Lynden

PS- I'm not sure if this information will help you string your wires though.

By Axel Haakonsen (Axel) on Friday, November 02, 2001 - 04:35 pm: Edit

So the british cut with dikes, and smoke fags, that's interesting....

By Bluegill (Bluegill) on Friday, November 02, 2001 - 04:39 pm: Edit

too much influence from their french neighbors across the Channel, I presume....

Blue
Irish, so bite me!

By Rebel Rover on Friday, November 02, 2001 - 06:37 pm: Edit

Another option is to use black split duct to cover the wires and attach the whole thing to the windshield using self adhesive zip tie mounts and zip ties. This way you can route the wires neatly to the extreme side of the windshield. You should be able to get the duct and zip tie mounts at Radio Shack or any electronics supply store.

By [email protected] on Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 09:11 am: Edit

I ran my wires to the rack under the rubber on the black thing on the windshield (a post maybe) then through the firewall with all the other crap, over behind the radio.. and next to my knee to the switch..

my comments,
Adam

By Leslie N. Bright (Leslie) on Saturday, November 03, 2001 - 06:59 pm: Edit

Again, not helping w/ wires.....


The Scots keep the Sabbath,
and anything else they can lay their hands on
The Welsh pray on their knees,
and on their neighbors
The Irish don't know what they want
but they will fight for it anyway
The English regard themselves as a self-made nation,
which relieves the Almighty of a terrible responsibility.


Thought y'all could appreciate that one....




-L

By Mike B. on Monday, November 05, 2001 - 06:00 pm: Edit

I ran my down the A Pillar. Here are some pictures.

Thanks,
Mike B.