Headlight Wiring Upgrade

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by Moriarty

Finally got around to tackling this. Not as clean as I’d like, but everything worked first try, so that’s good. I’m guessing I should probably put some lower amp fuses in than the 30 amp ones they came with?

Getting it to work right is 95% of the job, making it look trick is only 5%, that looks just fine to me. And a 30 amp fuse is good -- if you short on something that'll blow before the wires melt, which is all you want. Good work.

[Blas]

Red wire to first relay and double crimp a second wire jumper to the second relay at the first relays connector. Will really cleanup the installation. Black heat shrink material on all wiring, just don’t heat shrink it. 90 degree wire splices, not good looking. Once again double wire crimped at connectors make nice splices, loose all the multicolored electrical tape, electrical tape is for houses. (And wire looms) Solder connectors when necessary. If you are going to splice two wires together, they should run parallel, and be soldered. Get multiple sized rolls of heat shrink tubing, (Harbor Freight sells them) split larger tubing and insert smaller tubing at branch locations. Everything black will disappear under the hood.
Blas

[Gaz64]

Originally Posted by Blas

Red wire to first relay and double crimp a second wire jumper to the second relay at the first relays connector. Will really cleanup the installation. Black heat shrink material on all wiring, just don’t heat shrink it. 90 degree wire splices, not good looking. Once again double wire crimped at connectors make nice splices, loose all the multicolored electrical tape, electrical tape is for houses. (And wire looms) Solder connectors when necessary. If you are going to splice two wires together, they should run parallel, and be soldered. Get multiple sized rolls of heat shrink tubing, (harbor Freightcsells them) split larger tubing and insert smaller tubing at branch locations. Everything black will disappear under the hood.
Blas

Yes, I would agree.

I would have spent more time, and make it all black and more compact. the whole lot would almost disappear. I spend more time on installation, during when I know my installation will work, eg: EFI, complex alarms, remote start etc. I made my first remote start in 1996, and ALL was hidden except the added relays in the fusebox.

[Moriarty]

Originally Posted by Blas

Red wire to first relay and double crimp a second wire jumper to the second relay at the first relays connector. Will really cleanup the installation. Black heat shrink material on all wiring, just don’t heat shrink it. 90 degree wire splices, not good looking. Once again double wire crimped at connectors make nice splices, loose all the multicolored electrical tape, electrical tape is for houses. (And wire looms) Solder connectors when necessary. If you are going to splice two wires together, they should run parallel, and be soldered. Get multiple sized rolls of heat shrink tubing, (Harbor Freight sells them) split larger tubing and insert smaller tubing at branch locations. Everything black will disappear under the hood.
Blas

Thanks, looking much better now.

[patrickt]

That looks lovely.

[Blas]

Very professional looking…. Well done… Blas