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Old 09-14-2008, 02:04 PM
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I have two lights on my roof rack and I am wondering of a good and water free way of running the wires to hook up the lights. Any ideas or websites or pictures would be very helpful.
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I have 4 and plan on using a trailer wiring kit with a flat four plug so I can unplug them when I remove the roof rack. HTH.
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So how did you run the wiring? or how are you planning on running the wiring?
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look in the how to section. i did a write up on wiring lights.
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i drilled a hole in my roof
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Going to run it through the area in the "B" pillar and fish it to my switch panel and my relay panel.
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I didn't feel like drilling through the roof, so i ran it inside some of the black wire covering stuff (forgot what its called) and ran along the inside bar of the roof rack and into the top of the hatch, and right inside the moldings, and along the moldings to the switches i made.
One switch for the front, one for the back
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Hey Aircruiser thanks that write up was really good.
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no prob man..let me know if you have any questions.
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Originally Posted by wedgewickham
I have two lights on my roof rack and I am wondering of a good and water free way of running the wires to hook up the lights. Any ideas or websites or pictures would be very helpful.
I put 4 BAJAs on my roof rack om my 96 XJ . I removed the driverside rail and drilled a hole threw the roof to run my wires , put sillicone in the hole to seal it . works great . Then I mounted the lights to the cross bar . It looks awesome. Good luck.
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I'm installing reverse lights on my roof rack this weekend. I will post pics after I finish the install.
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