How are folks connecting to the under Hood / Bonnet Ext 1 & Ext 5 Wires?

[RJCali]

Hey all!

As the title says - how are people who've attached light bars or other accessories to these circuits actually making the solider or splice connection to the wire ends? There's such a tiny service loop, particularly on EXT 1! I'vt got some blade splice connectors but they're not watertight - I was thinking of using a heat shrink adhesive solder sleeve but that requires constraining the wires and getting a good amount of head down in that little area.

Is it just a 'swear into the engine' exercise in awkward movements and fiddly access or has anyone found a nice way of creating a working envelope to solder to them? Ext 5 isn't so bad, you can get the wire ends near to the top of the engine bay - but I want to keep that circuit for a higher power accessory in the future.

Appreciate the hints anyone can provide!

Cheers,

Reuben

 

[parb]

I crimped mine, and then put heatshrink tubing over. The kind of heatshrink tubing with glue inside of it so its completely watertight.

 

[TJ D]

Yes, adhesive lined shrink tube. But man, they could have given us a little more wire on those things! 2 inches to work with maybe, it would have been really nice to have enough there to be able to get the connectors on without standing on one's head working on those little stubby wires!

 

[parb]

Yes, adhesive lined shrink tube. But man, they could have given us a little more wire on those things! 2 inches to work with maybe, it would have been really nice to have enough there to be able to get the connectors on without standing on one's head working on those little stubby wires!

100% agree. Another 16 inches would have been so nice..

 

[RJCali]

Haha... well not the answers I hoped for but maybe the answers I expected. Thanks!

 

[TheDocAUS]

EXT1 is a 10 amp circuit and EXT5 a 25 amp circuit. You can use a Deutsch DT plug on EXT1 and a DTP plug on EXT5. Then just plug and play into the circuits, Lots of information on Deutsch plugs in this thread.

 

[parb]

Mine was bare wire under the hood, no plugs on them at all.

 

[DaveB]

Mine was bare wire under the hood, no plugs on them at all.

None of them have plugs.

 

[parb]

I wired up the baja lights from agile offroad to replace the stock offroad lights and i saw no point in having a plug for them. I'm just not very likely to take them out once they are in so a connector seems like a vaste. And its such a short wire, messing around with a connector in that cramped space would be no fun.

I used the EXT1 for my baja XL-R 80's. Amazing light!