bloddy mud

Ok from the roof you ran the wires through the door seal and over to the dash board?

bloddy mud

At the driver side my harness stops I have it long enough to reach to the gutter rail

98_XJ Sport

Under the dash and up to the little blank area to the right of the steering wheel

scottmphoto

If you do happen to drill through the roof, you should buy some rubber grommets at the parts store and run the wires through them. They will protect the wires from rubbing on the metal of the roof and help to keep them from rubbing through the insulation and shorting to the metal. Then, just use a dab of silicone to finish sealing up the hole so that it won't leak. I also second (or third) the idea of using some kind of connector so that if you ever need to take the rack off for any reason, it'll be much easier.

bloddy mud

How big of ground should I use cause I started a fire in the jeep

XJ.89.Limited

If you started a fire there is a problem...

You probably should stop everything and let someone knowledgeable about wiring take over. There should be no sparking to cause a fire if everything is wired correctly. Unplug the battery too, that should have been the first thing you did. If it sparked, power is going directly through the circuit with no break. Is the switch in the off position? Have you wired that in the system yet? Follow the wiring diagram that came with the lights and you should be fine. I had no problems wiring up fog lights, and a full sound system complete with a capacitor for my amp. To be safe, use some 14 or 16 gauge wire for the ground and power wires. The wires directly to the light should be about 18-20.

bloddy mud

Ya I belive I discovered my problem. I got 4 lights to one power wire and 4 lights to one ground wire. I talked to a few people at work about it. I pulled my rack back off and re wired it. I'm now running each light to it's own power wire and going to be splicing fuseable links to each of them. and all the lights are going to have their own ground. Tomorrow im going to be drilling a hole into the roof and run the wires through that way. The two outside lights are going to be on a switch and the two inside lights are going to be on a separate switch. Doing it this was I believe will be safest.

XJ.89.Limited

That should work fine. Even 2 lights per power/ground shouldn't be a problem. But the way you have it, you can always make each light on a separate switch also if need be. Let us know how it works out! I might be getting roof lights in the spring. I might just mount them on the original rack at first. Just gotta figure out how.

bloddy mud

Just drill holes

bloddy mud

Turns out the switch is bad. Think it was shorting out inside. I wired it to another switch and they worked just fine

XJ.89.Limited

Good job!

bloddy mud

Finished. They came together we'll after I discovered the bad switch

XJ.89.Limited

Nice!