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Pain in the Foggin' Butt: Wiring Fog Lights!

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Old Feb 15, 2008 | 08:44 PM
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Default Pain in the Foggin' Butt: Wiring Fog Lights!


I made myself proud today. I just kicked-over the tool box and jumped-in wiring the Fog Lights to be remote controlled by the Highs or Low Beams.
I put a terminal end on a quality inline fuse and ran the juice over to the void on the driver side fender well behind the airbox where I hung a pair of relays and "Y" powered the two relays off the single feed coming of the Battery Post at the left of the vehicle relay box. I followed the engine wiring harness across the engine compartment.

I ran a power lead to the passenger side Fog light across the front wiring harness behind the bumper and hooked the passenger side Fog Light up for the Juice. I rend the Ground side of the Light Plug-in to the bolt holding the front engine mount to the frame.
Next, I hooked-up the driver side light to that hot wire and married it to the twin feed coming off the relays. Grounded the right light to the motor mount too.
Tapped in to the Low Beam circuit on the driver side and ran a line from it to relay number one; then, tapped-in to the High Beam and ran that line to relay number two.

Everything is soldered.
Day one is complete.
I tested the Fog Lights for operation by touching the married +12 V line to the wire feeding 12 Volts to the Lights and they cam-on nice and bright ... both of them!
I have to complete the remote by running a wire through the Firewall to a 3-way Switch that will ground the loop coming off the Headlights and close the relays.
I have to get my "Crawling under the dash MoJo woikin'" fer dat!

Soon as I run a married section of Speaker Wire through the Firewall from the Relays to the Dashboard Switch for completing the remote circuits to ground ... I GOT IT!
Looks like the Hood Release Cable path through the Firewall will be the easiest path.
I'm running a long length of Speaker Wire before I do any drilling or tunneling through the Firewall.
I'm just an hour or so away from getting the Fog Lights hookked-up ... Clean, neat and color-coded.

I did it professionally.
Not a job for a Gray sweatshirt with my nickname lettered across the front and rodent ears hat!
You'd be proud of the way I treated this car and didn't do a hack-festival running the wires for the lights!

I finish sometime after sun-up!
 
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