My on and off road transport!
...I don't think the pic is there unless it just isn't showing on tapatalk.
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...I don't think the pic is there unless it just isn't showing on tapatalk.
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I'm too busy . . . figuring out what to do with all the colored spaghetti hanging over my Jeep fenders! :lol:
This wiring job is a pain, but cheaper than the $1K 'Painless' wiring kit! :001_rolleyes:
Lol I remember doing that on my '49 Studebaker. God that sucked! Wiring is probably one of the few things I am not a fan of. Not that it is hard but just not my thing. Lol.
Good luck buddy! You rewiring the whole jeep?
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Yep! Somehere in it's past, someone who had little knowledge of wiring other than continuity did some massive fiddling with the harness.
Splices crimped, not soldered, then wrapped with duct tape!
A main 10 ga. ignition wire reduced to 14 ga., then down to 18 ga., where an inline 20 amp fuse was wired to the starter relay, without benefit of a fusible link!
Three crimp splices within a 6" run was commonplace.
Surprises galore!
And all of this wonderment was deftly hidden inside a nice wrap of electrical tape, mimicking an actual wiring loom!
I'm surprised it ran at all.
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Wow. No issues running? At least you found those issues. I am terrible at soldering but am working on. Never really had a need and at least for me there is a learning curve.
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No issue running until I went offroad. Then the bouncing eventually caused a worn wire to ground against the dash, resulting in a blown fuse and total shutdown. After that happening 3 times is when I decided to check all the wiring, and found all this other crap.
I'm surprised it didn't burn down just for GP.
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My soldering isn't pretty, but it works.
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Looks real nice man! If you don't mind me asking how much did they charge you to fab them?
$900 for the front, but they start at $625. I went overboard on the request with how the plating was done and building a hitch reciever into it was a task. They did everything I wanted and then some. Rears I think start at 4-500, not mine of course.
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Funny, I never see any on these full-size over lifted trucks actually go off road.
Supposedly the strongest spacer made, it bent. Along with my brand new front bumper being cracked while up in the mountains around Baker, NV
Gave me a good reason to upgrade to coil-overs.
Funny, I never see any on these full-size over lifted trucks actually go off road.
Thats about all my truck does is off-road thats the reason for the bumpers. I would always drag the rear bumper coming off something or scrape the front going up or coming down steep stuff. Other then that the truck is in the garage because I drive a company vehicle all day. Most people with the big full size trucks do not off-road because they are just to big to really do anything, as far as rock crawling type stuff.
Thanks. The next step will be the biggest, full titan suspension and diff swap.