norvalwilhelm
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Since the weather didn’t cooperate this weekend and the wife was going on a shoping trip I decided to rewire my headlights. I didn’t want the power for them to come from the headlight switch. I wanted it directly from the alternator.
I bought 2 bosch 30 amp relays for $5.95 each and two 30 amp fuses.
I mounted the relays in the left hand corner near the actuator for the left headlight.
I opened up the wire harness and the low beam is the tan/light brown wire. I cut this and used it to trigger the low beam relay. I cut the green to trigger the high beam relay.
Now my head light switch and dimmer switch instead of handling 20 amps now handle less then an amp. They should last forever and at the same time my voltage to the lights should be up about 2 volts, making for a brighter light.
The hood has to come off to do this.
This is a close up of the relays and fuses.
This is where I mounted it so it was close to the wiring harness and easy to splice into the existing harness without long extensions
I bought 2 bosch 30 amp relays for $5.95 each and two 30 amp fuses.
I mounted the relays in the left hand corner near the actuator for the left headlight.
I opened up the wire harness and the low beam is the tan/light brown wire. I cut this and used it to trigger the low beam relay. I cut the green to trigger the high beam relay.
Now my head light switch and dimmer switch instead of handling 20 amps now handle less then an amp. They should last forever and at the same time my voltage to the lights should be up about 2 volts, making for a brighter light.
The hood has to come off to do this.
This is a close up of the relays and fuses.
This is where I mounted it so it was close to the wiring harness and easy to splice into the existing harness without long extensions
