TwistedWrench

Very cool, thanks! The latch mount area came out great, very clean job man.

lostdoors96

Thanks. I like it a lot just a quick flick of the finger and it pops right open. And much safer then say the gate latch or something.

InitialForce

Change dish switch panel. Started as a 1/8 plate of aluminum. Cut, sanded and bend to fit the spot, center drilled and did as much cutting with a jig saw then had to resort to a hand file to finish the switch cut outs, wired up (pulling ground and ignition on from stereo harness which then goes through the switches to the engine bay into relays). Actually finishing the engine bay wiring today lol.




Initial fitting





After hand filing to fit switches





Primer, 3 coats





Ultra flat black, 4 coats





Clear coat finish, 6 coats











Adding my wiring harness to the mess. Used connectors from random junk yard cars to add my switch harness without making it permanent





Ignition on the bottom lights up





Switch on the top part lights up





Bench top test of the harness. One connector goes to my radio harness, the other goes to the engine bay

Basslicks

Beautimous.

XJPat

Sure is. Wish I had the patience to wire my stuff like that.

InitialForce

Thank you

Still working on the engine bay side of things but its coming along nicely.




Start of the relay cluster








Making the bracket





Adding the connectors











Soldering in the connectors to the wires coming from inside of the jeep








Battery connections (well, positive is tied into the fuse box power lug). Choose to do a direct ground to the battery body ground point as well as a body ground by the relay cluster. Overkill just in case











Couldn't figure out how to mark what was what because i used the same type of connector harvested from junk yard vehicles so i did color coded shrink wrap

JandDGreens

InitialForce; Nice work on the wiring.

InitialForce

Thank you

Basslicks

Agreed, very good job. Gives me more of an idea on what to do with my setup now! I did have my relays hidden up under the dash, but I think I'll relocate mine to a similar location now for the purpose of ease of access.

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93_xjcherokee

Sweet. I have a fire extinguisher in mine

Desertfox1023

Very Clean, I like it

93XJeeper

My grenade shifter with 223 shell as the button. I think I found the idea on this thread somewhere.

HS00XJ

I like it.

dukie564

a fire extinguisher fit there? What like one of those tiny 2# ones? Those are utterly useless in an actual fire - especially if you have to open the hatch to get to it