With the mounting of a light bar on the new bumper I’m almost finished with my Jeep project.
I wired the light through a Bosch 5 pin relay such that when I turn on the fog lights it activates a relay and 12 volts (I tapped in at the positive winch terminal) is applied through a inline 30 amp fuse to the relay that delivers it to the new light.
I’ve got all of the wiring running through ‘looms’ except one small ( 5 inch) portion between the fuse to the relay. I’ll get that in today and then adjust the light beam upward slightly.
‘That Black Stuff’ I mentioned purchasing a few days back really does seem to work on the Jeep’s vinyl. For some reason it ended up slightly streaked on the fenders (not shown) so I need to go back and touch those up a mite. It occurs to me that the concept of cost/price is relative: I thought the stuff as being pricey at roughly $20 for 3 fluid ounces, but then realized having ‘like new’ fenders and a rear bumpers is a steal at that price.
I’ve got 6 quarts of oil and new filter but cannot find my 24mm socket so the needed oil change has hit the deferred maintenance list for a couple of days. Two remaining items for completion (other than the oil change and fender treatment) are applying a wicked sticker below the Wrangler logo on each of the rocker panels and receiving/mounting the winch cover.
We got a little rain on Friday, enough so that the weeds that I call grass/lawn were brought back to life and the place could be mowed yesterday (Saturday). A predecessor task was swapping out the mower blades which, of course, had a predecessor of sharpen the mower blades.
The old ones (above) have been sharpened previously and now are pretty well shot, so I’ll toss them. The ones I placed on yesterday will be good for a couple of months and will need to be trashed once I’m done running them over rocks and stumps that manage to rearrange themselves around here.