Well, I decided that I needed something to do so I decided to wire up my hardtop's interior light. The one underdash light is so dim that it barely lights up my footwell. So since I have another light already mounted, I might as well use it.
Spend 30 minutes looking over the hardtop wiring since the last time I did it I never marked the wires, just seperated them. Once I fiugred out which ones were for the light I started to screw around with the others. I jumped what I thought was the wiper with 12v and it worked. Only problem was that I was using a 6v battery (4D cells) and had to make the wiper do one complete sweep before it was back up. Well, it turns out I was powering the wiper motor and the not 'Park' so that one sweep turned out to be 3 or 4. Finally got that done and gave up looking at the wiper wires. That'll be for another day.
I had a $5 special light before that was strapped to the rollbar. It was extremely bright that it would light up the ground outside. So I was hoping for something that bright when I got done. The other problem is that when I hooked up the original light I hacked up the plug where the dash light was so I wanted to fix that.
After looking at the FSM smoe more I though about wiring the light to the splice where it should be. Well, that was a plug high up under the dash so that wasn't going to work. Basically one led splices the dash light. The other splices the door switch. After spending some more time freezing out side, I decided to splice the light back at the dash light but clean it up some.
Probably took 15 minutes to get all that straightened out since I ran the wires through the factory loom and had to untape all of the junctions and then tape them back up. Also had to remove two over panels behind the seat.
In any case, it was all wired up for the frist test. Well, I managed to twist the glass bulb for the dash light and broke it. So that now doesn't work. The rear dome light is so damn dim, you couldn't even read a picture book even if you were right under it. What a POS. :evil: Did I mention I got a nice papercut from sliding my finder down the split loom? :roll:
So now I have a tail light in the dash socket and the glowing yellow square in the back. I think I'll end up getting a better bulb or swapping the light out for a standard light setup. It has some funky fuse looking bulb.
Did I mention I rubbed my flare up against a cement column and need to massage my fender a bit too? Ended up waisting more time putting the OEM flares back on then decided to just leave the fenders off completly. :x
Oh and a water main broke for my street and we had a nice river for a while, too. :roll:
I'll probably throw up a how to since a lot of people want to know how to wire up their tops.
