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Old Jul 18, 2015 | 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by lostdoors96



Very cool, thanks! The latch mount area came out great, very clean job man.
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Old Jul 18, 2015 | 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by TwistedWrench
Very cool, thanks! The latch mount area came out great, very clean job man.
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.
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Old Jul 25, 2015 | 08:52 AM
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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

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Old Jul 28, 2015 | 09:35 PM
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Beautimous.
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Old Jul 28, 2015 | 09:41 PM
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Sure is. Wish I had the patience to wire my stuff like that.
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Old Jul 29, 2015 | 08:12 AM
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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






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Old Jul 29, 2015 | 07:24 PM
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InitialForce; Nice work on the wiring.
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Old Jul 29, 2015 | 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by JandDGreens
InitialForce; Nice work on the wiring.
Thank you
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Old Jul 30, 2015 | 05:30 AM
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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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Old Aug 25, 2015 | 01:15 AM
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Old Aug 25, 2015 | 02:46 AM
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Sweet. I have a fire extinguisher in mine
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Old Aug 25, 2015 | 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by 0regon
Very Clean, I like it
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Old Aug 25, 2015 | 08:26 AM
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My grenade shifter with 223 shell as the button. I think I found the idea on this thread somewhere.
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Old Aug 25, 2015 | 09:07 AM
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Originally Posted by 93XJeeper
My grenade shifter 223 shel as the button.mi think I found the idea on this thread somewhere.
I like it.
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Old Aug 25, 2015 | 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by 93_xjcherokee
Sweet. I have a fire extinguisher in mine
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
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