What did you do to your Cherokee today?
08-25-2013, 12:39 PM
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08-25-2013, 01:36 PM
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08-25-2013, 01:51 PM
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15-60 minutes depending on how much effort you put into it. I spent a few hours making a fuse box for it and replacing the cheap yellow jacket with proper split loom. There's no fuse in it, at the minimum I recommend one or two ATC fuses inline.
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08-25-2013, 01:58 PM
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Had to ask, didn't ya?
Cruiser’s Headlight Upgrade Harness Instructions
It's easy to install a supplemental headlight harness.
From the factory, the voltage to the headlight bulbs travels from the battery, inside the cabin, to the headlamp switch, and then back out to the lamps via undersized wire. It's not uncommon to find only 10.5 volts at the lamps.
The supplemental harness is installed so that it provides battery voltage to the lamps and is just triggered by the factory wiring. The result is about 30% brighter headlamps and headlight switches that don't melt and burn out.
Absolutely plug and play. Remove grille and headlamp bulbs. I fed my harnesses from the passenger side starting between the battery and the back of the headlamp housing, over to the driver side. Plug the driver side bulb into the new harness. Attach the new harness's ground wire under one of the small bolts on the radiator support after scraping the paint off under it. Attach the harness to the existing harness behind the grille working toward the passenger side. . Plug the new harness plug into passenger headlamp. Plug original headlamp plug into receptacle on new harness. Attach the ground for the passenger side just like you did the driver side under a radiator support bolt. Attach relays with provided bracket on the passenger side inner fender. Connect power wires to battery.
Revised 12/10/2012
Cruiser’s Headlight Upgrade Harness Instructions
It's easy to install a supplemental headlight harness.
From the factory, the voltage to the headlight bulbs travels from the battery, inside the cabin, to the headlamp switch, and then back out to the lamps via undersized wire. It's not uncommon to find only 10.5 volts at the lamps.
The supplemental harness is installed so that it provides battery voltage to the lamps and is just triggered by the factory wiring. The result is about 30% brighter headlamps and headlight switches that don't melt and burn out.
Absolutely plug and play. Remove grille and headlamp bulbs. I fed my harnesses from the passenger side starting between the battery and the back of the headlamp housing, over to the driver side. Plug the driver side bulb into the new harness. Attach the new harness's ground wire under one of the small bolts on the radiator support after scraping the paint off under it. Attach the harness to the existing harness behind the grille working toward the passenger side. . Plug the new harness plug into passenger headlamp. Plug original headlamp plug into receptacle on new harness. Attach the ground for the passenger side just like you did the driver side under a radiator support bolt. Attach relays with provided bracket on the passenger side inner fender. Connect power wires to battery.
Revised 12/10/2012
08-25-2013, 02:08 PM
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Finally replaced the inner shifter boot following shawgnutz's tech post.
Problem was, I have an '86 Frankenstein (XJ chassis and frame, Wrangler axles, homebrew transmission...)
So, a friend of mine helped my hubby and I fabricate and install a new shift cover that would fit the TJ's inner shifter boot and still give the lever enough room to move around.
It is beautiful... here's my before-and-after:
Problem was, I have an '86 Frankenstein (XJ chassis and frame, Wrangler axles, homebrew transmission...)
So, a friend of mine helped my hubby and I fabricate and install a new shift cover that would fit the TJ's inner shifter boot and still give the lever enough room to move around.
It is beautiful... here's my before-and-after:
08-25-2013, 03:02 PM
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Wheeled it last night, noice n dirty.
I need to do this soon. so much water comes through there if i hit a puddle at the right angle.
Finally replaced the inner shifter boot following shawgnutz's tech post.
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08-25-2013, 04:17 PM
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Stock halogens are okay. Autopal E-codes better.
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08-25-2013, 04:26 PM
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08-25-2013, 04:50 PM
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08-25-2013, 04:52 PM
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08-25-2013, 05:22 PM
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Honestly if you need more light get some offroad lights.. not putting hids in a car that didn't come with them factory. That way you don't blind everyone on the road.