HAFICON
Adventurer
First part review, Tray is pretty good quality I could not see paying the money for the Genesis tray when I can build my own may set up. May not be cheaper but will be the way I want it.
So the instructions are terrible, and the videos Mountain off road has made is not much better they skip over some important steps and don't use the best method for a few things. Maybe they did cover it all and I just missed it but if you have ever tried to watch their video from start to finish then you would understand how it is hard to keep focused.
Their video:
A lot of repeating information slow drug out process but it will get you through an install.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3uQUdvV4mA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huY-HgrvQdw
Well my recommendation's may be horrible but they work for me, hopefully if you should decide to install this tray some of this info will help you.
Starting off with my 2012 JKU: Total install time was about 3.5 hours I took my time.
The tray out of the box, quality is pretty good, tray is solid.
One step they covered later was removing this nut, I highly recommend removing it before you try to lift the box out, they showed you doing it later and results in fighting and stressing the wire.
So got the old tray out up to this point it is pretty straight forward, just tie off all the connectors. Be very careful removing the connectors from the bottom of the box they are easy to break I know.. The video did cover this pretty well. But I still broke one.
So with the box out you want to cut it, I suggest following the line they suggest in the video and then modify from their if needed.
The part of the tray you retain:
The cut M.O.R.E. suggested:
They suggest you wallow out these two hole to allow the trays to fit together. I missed that in the video and glad I did I think my way was might more effective.
I made additional cuts to be trays this cut allows the trays to sit not only closely together but to inner lock on one another. No need to wallow out the holes if you use my method. Also it helps support the back of the air box tray.
No loss of space with in the tray but edges fit together very smoothly. I like it.
So this is another step they did not mention or even suggest. I cut a hole in this after it was installed I would recommend making this hole before you install the tray.
The hole makes for clean wiring.
In the install video they ran the wires out of here, that would work but it takes up room with in the battery tray.
With re-installing I would suggest put this back on last. Just make sure you pull it up above the fuse box before you latch it down:
Aother change I did was I did not like how the harness mounted:
So I moved this like it is right above the ignition coil, I just moved the evap hose down to the lower hose added chaffing gear and put the plug in the top hole. Plug will not fit in the bottom hole it hits the battery box.
Evap hose is blue arrow plug relocation it the red arrow.
Now to the part they did not cover in the video very well. The EVAP hoses have to be separated they do this i the video but do not explain it as a step. This took a little bit to figure out but these hoses can be discarded.
Not a great picture and out of order but I edited it and added red and blue arrows to show where the hoses normally got. The EVAP solenoid is not really in the picture but this is the section of hose that would be tossed out.
All properly installed and CLEAN.. I am OCD kinda bad. Wiring has to be clean neat and organized. That is why I chose to drill a hole below the fuse box rather than run them through the battery tray. also making a hole gives you a little more slack for placement of wires.
So I went to pick up my batteries and the store only had one of the two. I chose to go with 34m Die Hard Platinum. Battery fits in the tray really well with some room left over.
Well that pretty well wraps up my write up/review, I am not really good at creating great write up I just try to hit the high points and what I feel is important no need to cover what is already covered in the install instructions. I am however starting to build a battery cover/ hold down It will look similar to this this is not a Jeep engine bay but shows the basic design I am following.
My hold down will have two solenoids mounted to it one for battery isolation and one for winch isolation so I can turn the power on and off to my winch just for safety reasons. Winch is rated about about 450amps at full load, the solenoid I chose is rated 500amp continuous duty, 750amp spike. When I get my 2nd battery installed I will hopefully have the hold down built and all the wiring complete. If you have bee considering a dual battery set up hope this helped you decide.
So the instructions are terrible, and the videos Mountain off road has made is not much better they skip over some important steps and don't use the best method for a few things. Maybe they did cover it all and I just missed it but if you have ever tried to watch their video from start to finish then you would understand how it is hard to keep focused.
Their video:
A lot of repeating information slow drug out process but it will get you through an install.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3uQUdvV4mA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huY-HgrvQdw
Well my recommendation's may be horrible but they work for me, hopefully if you should decide to install this tray some of this info will help you.
Starting off with my 2012 JKU: Total install time was about 3.5 hours I took my time.
The tray out of the box, quality is pretty good, tray is solid.
One step they covered later was removing this nut, I highly recommend removing it before you try to lift the box out, they showed you doing it later and results in fighting and stressing the wire.
So got the old tray out up to this point it is pretty straight forward, just tie off all the connectors. Be very careful removing the connectors from the bottom of the box they are easy to break I know.. The video did cover this pretty well. But I still broke one.
So with the box out you want to cut it, I suggest following the line they suggest in the video and then modify from their if needed.
The part of the tray you retain:
The cut M.O.R.E. suggested:
They suggest you wallow out these two hole to allow the trays to fit together. I missed that in the video and glad I did I think my way was might more effective.
I made additional cuts to be trays this cut allows the trays to sit not only closely together but to inner lock on one another. No need to wallow out the holes if you use my method. Also it helps support the back of the air box tray.
No loss of space with in the tray but edges fit together very smoothly. I like it.
So this is another step they did not mention or even suggest. I cut a hole in this after it was installed I would recommend making this hole before you install the tray.
The hole makes for clean wiring.
In the install video they ran the wires out of here, that would work but it takes up room with in the battery tray.
With re-installing I would suggest put this back on last. Just make sure you pull it up above the fuse box before you latch it down:
Aother change I did was I did not like how the harness mounted:
So I moved this like it is right above the ignition coil, I just moved the evap hose down to the lower hose added chaffing gear and put the plug in the top hole. Plug will not fit in the bottom hole it hits the battery box.
Evap hose is blue arrow plug relocation it the red arrow.
Now to the part they did not cover in the video very well. The EVAP hoses have to be separated they do this i the video but do not explain it as a step. This took a little bit to figure out but these hoses can be discarded.
Not a great picture and out of order but I edited it and added red and blue arrows to show where the hoses normally got. The EVAP solenoid is not really in the picture but this is the section of hose that would be tossed out.
All properly installed and CLEAN.. I am OCD kinda bad. Wiring has to be clean neat and organized. That is why I chose to drill a hole below the fuse box rather than run them through the battery tray. also making a hole gives you a little more slack for placement of wires.
So I went to pick up my batteries and the store only had one of the two. I chose to go with 34m Die Hard Platinum. Battery fits in the tray really well with some room left over.
Well that pretty well wraps up my write up/review, I am not really good at creating great write up I just try to hit the high points and what I feel is important no need to cover what is already covered in the install instructions. I am however starting to build a battery cover/ hold down It will look similar to this this is not a Jeep engine bay but shows the basic design I am following.
My hold down will have two solenoids mounted to it one for battery isolation and one for winch isolation so I can turn the power on and off to my winch just for safety reasons. Winch is rated about about 450amps at full load, the solenoid I chose is rated 500amp continuous duty, 750amp spike. When I get my 2nd battery installed I will hopefully have the hold down built and all the wiring complete. If you have bee considering a dual battery set up hope this helped you decide.
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