In amongst stripping wet carpet out of a Pulsar that got flooded in our recent storms up here in the Sunshine state, I got a bit more work done on my rig today.
By the way, if you have filthy carpets and seats, just get a few cans of the spray on Super Cheap degreaser, soak everything with it and hit it with the Gerni. Stick it in the sun to dry. Might take a couple of days to dry, but it comes up like new! A wrecker tolde this trick and he reckons a detailer told him.
First off, I installed that smart looking switch I scored for free in the dash for the bitumen melting LIghtforce 240 spotlights :
WIred the light on the switch into the light on the cigarette lighter, so the symbol lights up when the dash lights are turned on. I put it down in the centre becasue I will have put a pull switch for the compressor over on the Right hand side where the Dash dimmer would be if I had an SR5 and that leaves 2 slots for lockers down the track side by side.
Did a quick search on this forum and found olcologne's spotlight relay wiring thread
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1056&p=10927&hilit=spotlight+wiring#p10927 which made life really easy.
I decided not to buy a wiring loom to go with these spotties on account of wanting to use heavy wiring so there was no voltage loss. Anyway, you don't need me to show you how to wire spotties in, but becasue I like to solder every join and shrinkwrap connectors etc to avoid shorts, it took a while... Anyway, I followed Richard's instructions and it worked fist time. Only change I made was to wire in the switch between the Red and Yellow wire and pin 85 on the relay to make her legal. On acount of it being a hot day and the beer fridge being right beside my rig while I was doing this, I decided against taking the rig for a test drive after sundown! It seems to me that the passenger (left) side is the best to tackle for this as it is so close to the battery. I removed the battery and mounted the relay on the guard beside the battery, so the wiring was a short as I could make it. Used a 20 amp blade fuse inan in line holder between it and the battery terminal. Used the existing earth bolt on the inner guard to earth the spotties.
Anyway, while I was at it, I tackled mounting the Helton heat exchanger. This was pretty easy. It fits nicely below the factory battery tray, but don't drill a hole through the washer bottle. (I drilled the hole from the washer bottle side). There is a handy heater hose that runs from beside where the top radiator hose joins the engine down to just below the fuel filter, so I removed this and used the 16mm radiator hose and new hose clamps supplied to run down from the engine to the heat exchanger and then another bit from the exchanger to the heater line pipe below the fuel filter. As an afterthought, I decided to jam in a bit of self adhesive 12mm x 50m rubber strip on to the bottom of the heat exchanger at the last minute so it sits on the chasiss rail without rubbing a hole in something. I have not got the pressure pump in place yet, but gave her a bit of a test using a temporary setup and a cold engine and I think it will be fine. Here are acouple of pics. The first is looking down bside the battery to the top of the heat exchanger:
The blurry red bit is a ball valve Helton provided to regulate the coolant water flow and you can see the 2 heater pipes going down to the exchanger and you can see one of the water connectors in sharp focus.
The second is insde the wheel arch and you can see the body of the exchanger, the wiper washer bottle bottle and the mounting bolt in the shadows on the top left. You can see the mounting clamp wrapping around the body of the heat exchanger. With my bull bar, this is all exposed, but in your truck, it might be hard to see all this, just watch that washer bottle!
So the next job is to fit the pressure pump and the compressor over on the right hand side where the SR5 ABS brake controller is. Plenty of room there, so I think at this stage, I will mount both of them vertically on the guard which will make everything easy to service. To do this, I think I will bolt a fairly large flat plate onto the guard and mount the pump and comperessor on the plate. Should be much easier to do this than the spotties as I will use a positive earthed relay setup andhave already got alittle bit of the wiring done. The 4 fuse distributon block will go over with them and I will use 2 fuses for each item (1 for the circuit and one will be the low current relay switching circuit.