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Ms Piggy. Black and Blue! - broncosbybart - 02-05-2016
Not sure on the wiper setup. Nick at NicksTrix uses an FJ-40 setup I think, modified to operate off of a cable at the bottom of the windshield frame.
Been up to my ears in wiring. Under the dash is pretty well sorted out, so in with the roll cage and then the rear tailgate. Had to add some bling to both. Broncos and hoes style!
Ms Piggy. Black and Blue! - chuzie - 02-05-2016
B4 u open that head unit, be warned it is part of a pioneer series that is difficult to see in bright conditions. If u take the top off, forget it!
When my pioneer dies, I'm going with this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00HQXUH66?vs=1
Ditch the cd player dude. No one uses that crap anymore. This unit is tits!
Sent from my GS3 on Cyanogenmod with the older / better version of Tapatalk!
Ms Piggy. Black and Blue! - broncosbybart - 02-11-2016
Dude, I'm not no one. Ok, maybe I am. Thanks for the heads up but the head unit is already unwrapped and installation has begun on it. I'm getting sick of wiring so I changed it up a bit and worked on the winch.
The goal I was after is having switches on the dash to control the winch in addition to being able to use a hand held winch controller. Upon removal of the fancy shroud work, I was greeted with a sealed box with a few wires going into and out of it. Turns out Warn calls this a contactor, just a fancy name for an expensive non-serviceable solenoid. There was no way to tap into the box for a remote switch panel. A little digging turned up an 'open box' winch remote on Amazon which I bought for the proprietary D shaped plug and wire loom. Ridiculous.
The end result is that I was able to use my remote switches but have to plug the panel into the winch plug, and would need to unplug that in order to plug in the hand held remote. Not ideal but it was the only way to do it with this winch.
Snapped a few pics of the engine bay, too. It is beginning to fill up with stuff. PS/hydroboost is in and plumbed. Dual batteries are in and today I got the battery isolator installed. Settled on the solenoid type as it was fairly inexpensive and easy to diagnose, should trouble ever arise. The battery on the driver's side is the main battery that everything is hooked to. The aux battery on the passenger side is just for the winch and can be switched on if the main battery should die.
Kindly disregard the 4x4 prop rod holding the hood up.
Ms Piggy. Black and Blue! - snipes243 - 02-12-2016
What battery isolator did you use. I need one, I keep killing battery's winching
Ms Piggy. Black and Blue! - chuzie - 02-13-2016
Better and cheaper than a lot of stuff out there.
Just my 2 cents...
![[Image: dual%20battery11.jpg]](http://s288.photobucket.com/user/mchuzie/media/dual%20battery11.jpg.html)
Ms Piggy. Black and Blue! - blazinchuck - 02-15-2016
i see bolt holes in the rear upper quarters...you running a quarter guard?
Ms Piggy. Black and Blue! - ParadisePWoffrD - 02-17-2016
What were the small wires coming out going to? Did you take the screws loose that hold the remote receptacle on? If you ever need to rewire the winch, google Albright Solenoid. It's a contactor and a lot of ppl have upgraded their solenoids to one. Not sure how that would integrate with the air comp.
Speaking of, why do I see multiple air sources?
Ms Piggy. Black and Blue! - broncosbybart - 02-17-2016
Clay, I might use your quote for my new sig
'I keep killing battery's winching'
The isolator came from Powerstream. It is a pretty simple device.
http://www.powerstream.com/battery-isolator.htm
Chuck, I will be running quarter guards. It's been to cold and crappy to paint them though. So, I am waiting on the weather for that.
Ben, this diagram should explain what the couple of wires do- the ones you see are the ones probably going to the compressor switch. The plug for the controller didn't move, other than to wiggle side to side a fraction with the retaining screws removed.
Main reason for the powerplant winch is because it was sitting around. The ARB compressor was too. I'm trying to get it up and going for the super cel here in 2 months and won't have time to do everything I want (on board air tank, lines, etc). My thoughts are to keep the ARB compressor just for the ARB's and to have the winch supply air for the OBA system that will eventually take shape. I could plumb the OBA system to the ARB solenoids down the road.
For a little update, I fabbed up some brackets to mount the cooling fan and got the radiator installed and plumbed. For my future reference, the upper hose is Gates 21729 and the lower is Gates 21731. I did have to cut and splice each of them to fit, but they worked out pretty well.
Ms Piggy. Black and Blue! - broncosbybart - 02-23-2016
Ran out of room on the dash! Got the digital Tiny Tach mounted on the wiper motor assembly. The ARB switches had to go under the dash. Both of them are wired up and I checked over the function of the ARB's and compressor. All works as it should!
Seats and belts are in, radio is wired, and exhaust is pretty well tacked in place. Plans are to get it all TIG welded- which I'll have to farm out. I wanted to have the exhaust tip near the quarter panel rather than to have it hanging down in the middle of nowhere. It looks a little funky from the back of the truck but it works. The rear bumper is sitting there to make sure everything will work together. Plans are to fab up/add a spare tire carrier to the rear bumper, but that is yet to come.
Ms Piggy. Black and Blue! - chuzie - 02-23-2016
PLease tell me you aren't running 4-pt harness on the road!