Sometimes no updates in 3 months is actually a good thing. The Cj has been running well and took us on all our Summer trips. She makes a pretty nice daily driver as well. The other day when I was working at 3 am I took note the headlights were kind of dim and one high beam was out. That turned into this:
I'll be installing the H4's along with all the rest of the lights this weekend.
It's not too bad Pete.
I did it from scratch with the ez wiring kit install.
I'll check it out and get some notes for you.
You're basically just unhooking the high and low beam supply wiring to the lights and using those into #86 prong of the standard relay. Power from Batt to #30 prong (normally with inline fuse) #87 goes to the lights. I think I did 2 relays, but can't remember off the top of my head...
#30, #87, and #85 prongs should have larger gauge wiring than what you have stock to handle the higher current draw. I think was 16 gauge? maybe 14 / 18 - can't remember for sure...
Ground out the #85 prong.
Let me know if you want to get wire and do it yourself, and I'll get you the notes and check exactly how I did it... Mine goes through the added fusebox now, but essentially the same...
I installed this kit after talking with 007. I added fuses instead of the fusible link wires in the kit. Just plugged them into the white connector. It's an easy upgrade - I did it.
Let me start with saying Hello to everyone again. I haven't been here posting as much cause unfortunately my father passed away earlier this month. At that point Vicki and I were at the hieght of our 2 Cj search. As you can imagine we decided to put everything on the back burner. We ended up losing a pretty well built Cj during that time but obviously we had more important things to attend to.
Fast forward to last night. Vicki and I are both on are phones resuming our Cj search. We'd been looking within a 4 hour radius of our place and were both bleary eyed from looking at rusted junk. Just before we settled on a $1300 rust bucket Vicki ran across a 1980 CJ7 that looked decent for $2300. Unfortunately it was 6 1/2 hours away. For us that trip involves a night in a hotel cause niether one of us enjoy 13 hrs of driving in a day.
The ad was just put up an hour before so I contacted the owner. He sent me pics of the small rusted areas then the engine and interior. I was hooked and Vicki was crunching numbers to see if we could afford it.( We have already committed to another $3500 Cj but that's another story. ) Vicki said $2100 would make it more comfortable for our budget and I should ask him if he'd accept that. I didn't really like negotiating what I felt was already a low price so I went to bed. This morning I had a text saying if I was serious they'd take $1800to help with shipping. I almost broke my leg running downstairs to tell Vicki. Needless to say the Cj below should arrive at my place no later than the 16th. We needed something like this to put a smile on our faces after a somewhat subdued Christmas this year. Once I get a little more time I'll go over the details and plans we have for it.
