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Old Dec 26, 2008 | 04:51 PM
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I am planning on buying a Surco roof rack from summit and some Hella lights for it. My question is how do you hook the lights up and I am wanting to hook it up to my fog light switch. Any help would be great.
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Old Dec 26, 2008 | 05:35 PM
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I have a Surco with 4 Hellas on the front and 3 other lights on the back. I ran the wires through the factory roof rack rails, drilled a hole in the roof ran the wires under the headliner. Silicone the hole shut so it doesn't leak. You really should run relays on the lights and only run 2 lights per switch. I made a switch panel and mounted it between the visors.





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Old Dec 26, 2008 | 07:25 PM
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man i love your light switch...i think im gonna paint my jeep like that lol it looks awsome...what did u make it out of?
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Old Dec 26, 2008 | 07:54 PM
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The switch box was made from a plastic project box from radio shack. The idea was from another board and a gentleman named Fitchva. Thanks Fitch

http://fitchva.com/jeep/index.php
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Old Dec 26, 2008 | 08:18 PM
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I have a very smiler set up as xjjeepthing
but I had a overhead console already
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Old Dec 26, 2008 | 08:18 PM
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Old Sep 27, 2010 | 05:50 PM
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Originally Posted by xjjeepthing
I have a Surco with 4 Hellas on the front and 3 other lights on the back. I ran the wires through the factory roof rack rails, drilled a hole in the roof ran the wires under the headliner. Silicone the hole shut so it doesn't leak. You really should run relays on the lights and only run 2 lights per switch. I made a switch panel and mounted it between the visors.





were did you get that switch box for your lights
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Old Sep 27, 2010 | 06:56 PM
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NICE SETUPP!!!
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