Since I used the passenger front door as my guinea pig, I needed to address the cut wiring inside it first.
I need to drive Radio Flyer this weekend to do some woodworking, so I want to be able to button this door back up and forget it for a bit.
First up, I needed to figure out where I want to mount the relays. Since I will be modding the window circuits in the future, I wanted enough space to mount all of the relays in one area. I didn't want to mount the relays inside the door. Too much water infiltration and chance of damage from the power window operation.
So, I decided I would mount them high up under the passenger side of the dash. My A/C unit is out at the moment, so perfect time to do this.
Here is the plate I made to mount the system:
It is mounted on two studs protruding through the firewall. I think these are used to mount the heater core box? Anyhoo, they worked.
Next, I wanted to tie the existing feed and the actuator back together. Remember, I'm using the existing wires from the Jeep as power to actuator feed.
Since I had cut the wires, they needed to be reconnected.
For your purposes, DO NOT CUT THESE WIRES! I had to test the system, so I had to cut them. Save yourself a step. Leave the wires going to the actuator intact.
These will be a set of 2 wires going to the rear of the door. Mine are brown and blue colored. My Waggy is an 84. Your may have different colors.
If you are doing this, you will only need to cut the 2nd set that go vertically up to the switch. They will be as a group of 4 wires from the same side of the orange connector. Mine were blue and brown (switch power), and gray and pink. In hindsight, I should have left more of the small gauge gray and pink exposed, cutting those wires higher up, away from the orange connector.
Since I didn't do this, I needed to run a new switch feed to the door. d'OH!
The only way to do this is to fight to push 2 new wires through that crusty and stiff rubber grommet in the a piller way up under the dash!
.....or is it?
Nope. I cut the ground feed going from the switch to the firewall harness on the OTHER side if that little orange connector!
Not using it anyway since the relays do the job of switching the voltage/ground polarity now.
In my K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) method, I chose the 12 gauge blue wire to mate with.... the blue wire to the switch.
The large pink wire will go to the brown from the switch. Now I don't have to feed more wires through that grommet....
And this is where I stopped. the rain set in, followed quickly by gusty winds.
Since I'm doing this under a carport, I waved the white flag for the day. Will heat the shrink connectors and reattach the door panel tomorrow.
More to come next week!
Cheers!