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<blockquote data-quote="machoheadgames" data-source="post: 433971" data-attributes="member: 18789"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">Front Lighting Harness</span></strong></p><p></p><p>Everybody has seen me spend a bunch of time and effort on the front lighting harness....well I am doing it again since I finally found the fog-supported harness I always wanted. I'm just glad I can finally use a factory fog light switch. I love the little switch panel Jeep installed on the YJs, I always wanted to control fogs there like stock but I just couldn't get my hands on a harness to do so. Now that that issue is solved, I can get that functionality I wanted.</p><p></p><p>So I bought a harness for $30 from eBay. It is rough but none of that matters as I can fix pretty much anything as it comes. The goal is to once again route everything into my relay box. </p><p></p><p>The relays will be as follows:</p><p></p><p>-LED headlight heater - triggered by parking lamp</p><p>-Low beam</p><p>-High beam</p><p>-DRL dimmer 1 - triggered by parking lamp</p><p>-DRL dimmer 2 - triggered by parking lamp</p><p></p><p>The purpose of the DRL dimmers will be so that the DRL bulbs I use can be at their full brightness during the day, and then at night they will dim way down to be easy to look at at night. Think of a Jeep Gladiator or JL for what I'm talking about....the only difference is I don't have halos in my headlights and my parking lights are in the grille, not the fenders. I'm copying the style though, bright wire during day as a running light and then dimmed down to natural levels at night using resistors. Since they are switchback bulbs, they will turn off the white whenever I turn on the blinker and will blink a nice and bright amber on/off/on/off. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]119352[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>People probably think I'm crazy to spend so much work on a daytime running light but it's just the functionality I want. My thing has always been similar to stock but with modern improvements, and I can think of nothing more modern, without looking ridiculous or overdone. </p><p></p><p>I still have not decided on smoked or clear parking lamp lenses. The clears make the bulbs look brighter and overall I think look better, but I am not sure what headlights I should run with them. Either way I will run the JW Speaker 8910, but I don't know if I should choose the shiny ones or the dark ones. The dark ones look less flashy, which I like, however I think the shiny lights will match the clear parking lamps better. I could use the dark JWs and the smoked parking lamps, but I don't know if I really want that because I like the clear lamps. I could use the clear lamps and the dark headlights I suppose....I need to do a photoshop and see what I like.</p><p></p><p>This is what it looks like with the clear lamps...I think it looks super sharp, just not sure if the darker JW speaker headlights would look right. Maybe I can photo shop that pic and see what I think.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]119353[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Once I get the front end harness all wired to the relays and such, I will be good to go. I can install it at that point and have factory actuated fog lights and a DRL that runs bright during the day and dims at night. Headlights will be some low quality LEDs for now and I will upgrade them to JW Speaker later. </p><p></p><p>As a reminder, this is what the DRL + turn signal looks like...clean and modern which is what I'm after. The white will go way down at night. I will not regularly drive with a towel draped over the windshield....that was to cushion my hood leaned up against it for a while in the garage.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]119354[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="machoheadgames, post: 433971, member: 18789"] [B][SIZE=4]Front Lighting Harness[/SIZE][/B] Everybody has seen me spend a bunch of time and effort on the front lighting harness....well I am doing it again since I finally found the fog-supported harness I always wanted. I'm just glad I can finally use a factory fog light switch. I love the little switch panel Jeep installed on the YJs, I always wanted to control fogs there like stock but I just couldn't get my hands on a harness to do so. Now that that issue is solved, I can get that functionality I wanted. So I bought a harness for $30 from eBay. It is rough but none of that matters as I can fix pretty much anything as it comes. The goal is to once again route everything into my relay box. The relays will be as follows: -LED headlight heater - triggered by parking lamp -Low beam -High beam -DRL dimmer 1 - triggered by parking lamp -DRL dimmer 2 - triggered by parking lamp The purpose of the DRL dimmers will be so that the DRL bulbs I use can be at their full brightness during the day, and then at night they will dim way down to be easy to look at at night. Think of a Jeep Gladiator or JL for what I'm talking about....the only difference is I don't have halos in my headlights and my parking lights are in the grille, not the fenders. I'm copying the style though, bright wire during day as a running light and then dimmed down to natural levels at night using resistors. Since they are switchback bulbs, they will turn off the white whenever I turn on the blinker and will blink a nice and bright amber on/off/on/off. [ATTACH type="full" width="447px"]119352[/ATTACH] People probably think I'm crazy to spend so much work on a daytime running light but it's just the functionality I want. My thing has always been similar to stock but with modern improvements, and I can think of nothing more modern, without looking ridiculous or overdone. I still have not decided on smoked or clear parking lamp lenses. The clears make the bulbs look brighter and overall I think look better, but I am not sure what headlights I should run with them. Either way I will run the JW Speaker 8910, but I don't know if I should choose the shiny ones or the dark ones. The dark ones look less flashy, which I like, however I think the shiny lights will match the clear parking lamps better. I could use the dark JWs and the smoked parking lamps, but I don't know if I really want that because I like the clear lamps. I could use the clear lamps and the dark headlights I suppose....I need to do a photoshop and see what I like. This is what it looks like with the clear lamps...I think it looks super sharp, just not sure if the darker JW speaker headlights would look right. Maybe I can photo shop that pic and see what I think. [ATTACH type="full" width="317px"]119353[/ATTACH] Once I get the front end harness all wired to the relays and such, I will be good to go. I can install it at that point and have factory actuated fog lights and a DRL that runs bright during the day and dims at night. Headlights will be some low quality LEDs for now and I will upgrade them to JW Speaker later. As a reminder, this is what the DRL + turn signal looks like...clean and modern which is what I'm after. The white will go way down at night. I will not regularly drive with a towel draped over the windshield....that was to cushion my hood leaned up against it for a while in the garage. [ATTACH type="full"]119354[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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