UK Toyota Hilux
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Well its begun... 10 days of wiring ahead of me...
Day One has started with a morning at work making some brackets to hold relays in a nice fashion...
the rest of the day is going to be spent getting the CTEK wired in and working so the battery will be getting a bit of charge before I attempt to draw power from it
Wish me luck!
Day One has started with a morning at work making some brackets to hold relays in a nice fashion...
the rest of the day is going to be spent getting the CTEK wired in and working so the battery will be getting a bit of charge before I attempt to draw power from it
Wish me luck!
Done for the day!
CTEK all wired up and best of all it seams to be working!
Tested it with a voltmeter and it was really interesting watching the unit constantly adjusting the voltage to meet the needs of the battery... The hilux starter battery kept at a steady 14v while the CTEK started at 14.9 and then slowly reduced the voltage to 13.7v as the battery started to take the charge
I also mounted the brackets I made... One for the interior relays and one for the external relays
Anyway enough wittering on I guess you want to see some pictures!
CTEK all wired up and best of all it seams to be working!
Tested it with a voltmeter and it was really interesting watching the unit constantly adjusting the voltage to meet the needs of the battery... The hilux starter battery kept at a steady 14v while the CTEK started at 14.9 and then slowly reduced the voltage to 13.7v as the battery started to take the charge
I also mounted the brackets I made... One for the interior relays and one for the external relays
Anyway enough wittering on I guess you want to see some pictures!
Day Two
Hit a tiny snag... whent to drill the 25mm hole in the fire wall to run some conduit through and realised the drill didn't fit in the space.. I am going to need a hand from my mate but that will have to wait until tommrow...
Anyway I carried on with other bits and bobs
Riveted the relay brackets to my fabricated bracket
Then I started tidying up the wiring for the reversing lights that I throw in at the time
I also found a pretty neat use for my camera equipment... A coiled cable holder! Haha
I also added abit of conduit to any pinch or heat points to protect the wiring
I am starting to run out of things to do until I drill the hole through the conduit...
Hit a tiny snag... whent to drill the 25mm hole in the fire wall to run some conduit through and realised the drill didn't fit in the space.. I am going to need a hand from my mate but that will have to wait until tommrow...
Anyway I carried on with other bits and bobs
Riveted the relay brackets to my fabricated bracket
Then I started tidying up the wiring for the reversing lights that I throw in at the time
I also found a pretty neat use for my camera equipment... A coiled cable holder! Haha
I also added abit of conduit to any pinch or heat points to protect the wiring
I am starting to run out of things to do until I drill the hole through the conduit...
Day Three (I had the weekend off... haha)
On the weekend I went up to my mates to get the holes drilled in the fire wall turns out that's where the clutch goes through so lucky enough there was ment to be a hole there... but to get the drill in there we had to take the pipe off the intercooler but it worked
Then today I painted the hole and connected the water proof connector and routed the conduit
I also got the center console out and installed the fuse board and earth bus bar and fed the wires through
By the end of the day I am planning on routing the thick red wire through and attaching it to the aux battery via a 80 AMP fuse and run a side light fees into the cab to light up the switches when the lights are turned on
I am also waiting for a few parcels which I will hopefully have installed this week
On the weekend I went up to my mates to get the holes drilled in the fire wall turns out that's where the clutch goes through so lucky enough there was ment to be a hole there... but to get the drill in there we had to take the pipe off the intercooler but it worked
Then today I painted the hole and connected the water proof connector and routed the conduit
I also got the center console out and installed the fuse board and earth bus bar and fed the wires through
By the end of the day I am planning on routing the thick red wire through and attaching it to the aux battery via a 80 AMP fuse and run a side light fees into the cab to light up the switches when the lights are turned on
I am also waiting for a few parcels which I will hopefully have installed this week
Day Four
It's been a lazy day for me...
Installed some under bonnet lights
Then the post man arrived with my amber beacons for the rear window
And my CB radio which I am ment to get for my birthday but pretty much had it installed by the time charlotte got home so I got it now instead haha
I kinda of forgot to take picture though.. will get some tommrow though!
It's been a lazy day for me...
Installed some under bonnet lights
Then the post man arrived with my amber beacons for the rear window
And my CB radio
which I am ment to get for my birthday but pretty much had it installed by the time charlotte got home so I got it now instead haha I kinda of forgot to take picture though.. will get some tommrow though!