Engine Bay Relay Box Installation
Here's the post I meant to make earlier! I did all this last week but haven't uploaded it yet. I have the relay box installed now and the headlights wired, and CrackedBack I did just that! I'm saving your relay blocks and fuse terminals for another project, they're quality pieces and I'd be a fool to toss them out. I modified your kit just a little bit to get it to fit in the relay box, I just had to reroute some wires and steal some wire from the fuse connectors for the relay box fuses. The whole relay/fuse box kit comes with all the female spade connectors you need for it, and they're alright. My only complaint aside from not having a quality set of crimping pliers is that the supplied connectors could have prongs a little longer. Crimping them to the 12 gauge wire was a bear, but I did it!
Here's how it's laid out so far. I had to cut the mounting holes off of the supplied relays so they would clear the top of the relay box, they came off with a hacksaw quickly. The other modification I had to make was to the relay box itself. The plastic in between the fuse terminals is a little too tall for my tastes, I couldn't get the fuses to seat in far enough to hold comfortably. I took a dremel and milled the plastic down on all of the fuse slots and it fits great now! I haven't installed the wiring for the choke and USB charger yet, I have the harness halfway built but not in. I've marked where everything goes in the diagram below!
I also came up with a stopgap solution for mounting the USB charger itself. I bought it on amazon for about $10, and it's about what you would expect. I haven't tried it yet but it's simple enough. Two USB ports, two terminals on the back, and it comes with some wire and an inline 10 amp fuse that I'm not going to use, I have a 10 amp that will fit in the relay box. I don't want to crawl underneath the dash if it blows!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N6S2SNM/?tag=joeychgo-20
For mounting it, I simply removed the ammeter from an oil pressure/ammeter gauge pair that the previous owner installed and made an adapter plate out of the bottom of a can of olives. Tin snips and a file made it work, it's not pretty but it'll do for now!
Here's the post I meant to make earlier! I did all this last week but haven't uploaded it yet. I have the relay box installed now and the headlights wired, and CrackedBack I did just that! I'm saving your relay blocks and fuse terminals for another project, they're quality pieces and I'd be a fool to toss them out. I modified your kit just a little bit to get it to fit in the relay box, I just had to reroute some wires and steal some wire from the fuse connectors for the relay box fuses. The whole relay/fuse box kit comes with all the female spade connectors you need for it, and they're alright. My only complaint aside from not having a quality set of crimping pliers is that the supplied connectors could have prongs a little longer. Crimping them to the 12 gauge wire was a bear, but I did it!
Here's how it's laid out so far. I had to cut the mounting holes off of the supplied relays so they would clear the top of the relay box, they came off with a hacksaw quickly. The other modification I had to make was to the relay box itself. The plastic in between the fuse terminals is a little too tall for my tastes, I couldn't get the fuses to seat in far enough to hold comfortably. I took a dremel and milled the plastic down on all of the fuse slots and it fits great now! I haven't installed the wiring for the choke and USB charger yet, I have the harness halfway built but not in. I've marked where everything goes in the diagram below!
I also came up with a stopgap solution for mounting the USB charger itself. I bought it on amazon for about $10, and it's about what you would expect. I haven't tried it yet but it's simple enough. Two USB ports, two terminals on the back, and it comes with some wire and an inline 10 amp fuse that I'm not going to use, I have a 10 amp that will fit in the relay box. I don't want to crawl underneath the dash if it blows!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N6S2SNM/?tag=joeychgo-20
For mounting it, I simply removed the ammeter from an oil pressure/ammeter gauge pair that the previous owner installed and made an adapter plate out of the bottom of a can of olives. Tin snips and a file made it work, it's not pretty but it'll do for now!
