Dave's la(te)st buggy build...

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If you're using 7 core you must have bought a trailer and are turning the boogy into a trailer queen behind the gv!

What a waste of a morning! :evil:

I got up early, I shot to Booker Cash & Carry and was there just after they opened, I got all the bits we were short of for the shop, and shot back home again, dumped the stock in the shop, I'll put it out on Monday...

By then the wife and our eldest daughter were up and took our two Labradors for a good long walk...

Meanwhile, I disappeared into the garage...



I found the SJ back lights for the buggy, you can see they are new Maritu ones sourced from JimnyBits around 18 months ago, and some light guards I got off a chap on eBay... Bah! But I can only find one box of bulbs...

So I turned the garage upside down, searching every shelf and every nook and cranny, tidying up as I went, and finding stuff I forgot I'd got...

In the end I found various bulb kits in my old Jimny spares box, and hoped I could match enough to make a set for the other side...

So I opened the box to check, and...



ARRRGGGHHH!!! There's two sets in the one box!!

Excellent timing though, I'd just got so annoyed I went back in the house to make a cuppa, annoyed but giggling to myself how stupid I'd been... when the wife got home and started making me a full breakfast, so I nipped upstairs to write this, will have my brekkie, and start the day all over again, having wasted most of the morning searching for bulbs that were under my nose all the time... If only I'd opened that one box of bulbs!!!

C'est la Vie! :lol:

Lambert wrote: If you're using 7 core you must have bought a trailer and are turning the boogy into a trailer queen behind the gv!

Ahh, yes, but no, but... 7 cores...

1) Rear Lights
2) Brakes
3) Reverse
4) Nearside Indicator
5) Offside Indicator
6) Foglight
7) Earth

You still think I make this up as I go along? :laugh:

Ok, that list lead to...



A diagram of the junction box showing what was going where...



A few hours later... I fed the loom through a big heat-shrink tube, and then cut each wire to length, took the sheath off the end of each wire, twisted it, bent it back on itself and then screwed each cable into it's corresponding place in the junction box... And then attached the loom to the "wading wall" with some self-tappered ty-wrap clips...

Step two...



I drilled through the side of the rear nearside roof clip mounting...

And fished around with a length of mig welding wire for literally an hour until I managed...



To get it out of the soft-top's hoop pillar... Having stripped the seatbelt out again to get into the pillar... ho-hum!



I then used the MIG fishing wire to pull the 3-core cable through...



That will provide power to the hi-level LED brake light and a couple of internal worklights under the soft-top's hoop...



I could then finish the internal wiring in the junction box... and then tidy up all the cables so that they are hidden out of the way behind the roll-bar's X tubes..

The 7-core cable runs out the top of the "wading-wall" and was going to run along the top edhe of the mesh panel in the rear nearsde wheel arch, but the ground anchor's handle / shaft was a bit in the way, so...



It runs down...



... and along the bottom edge instead, and then...



... into the back of the nearside light..

From there it will be wired into the nearside light, and then along to the other / offside light, and down into the foglight as well...

Probably Wednesday now then... as everything took longer than expected today You get days like that though... it took ages to fish the MIG wire down the pillar!!! :silly:

New Year, and a bit of a milestone reached... :woohoo:

With the internal section of the rear wiring complete, I was able to bolt the passenger bucket seat back in place this afternoon...





I just need to tidy up (coil, wrap and hide) the wiring on the driver's side before bolting my own seat back in too!

A job for Wednesday it would seem, as tomorrow I'm back in hospital having needles poked into my eyes, so I'll be out of action for most of the day!