Lights on luggage rack!?

[marximus]

ok, so im just playing with the idea of putting acc. lights on my yakina load warrior luggage rack. i all okay with the mounting and what type of lights im going to use, my question is - what is the best way to run the wires from the lights to the engine bay? i dont want to see them, so if anyone hase any good tricks for this, feel free to list them!

My best solution is to just run them down the passenger door gutter and in the engine bay. what doya think?

[psychos2]

i drilled through one of the rails for the luggage rack and roof . used wire loom to cover wires. shawn

[marximus]

do you have pics? i want to see!

[psychos2]

sent you an email with a pic shawn

[marximus]

hey, thanks. that not bad, i havent thought about putting them on the actual rack, i was reffering to putting them on the load warrior, but that is pretty good looking. send me a pic of the car from front if you have chance, i would like to see what it looks like overall.

[johnnyapollo]

There's a pic of BigMike's rack with lights here:

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/sh...papass=&sort=4

-- John

[marximus]

what are those, they look like hella 500's but its hard to tell. that is what i wanted to do, just to the load warrior. light brackets are coming mon. and lights will be hear later that week. ill post pics when done

[carlymac]

Maybe you have seen it...maybe not but Yakima offers a set of lights. I don't have them on my rack but their pretty cool. They mount behind the farring for protection. All you do is flip the farring down and flip the switch
I think this is for the mounting bracket only and you add whatever lights you like...


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[marximus]

yup, ive seen them...actually i bought them. the should be at my house monday. it looks like a clean way to setup the lights, so im gonna try it. thanks though, at least i know someone else agrees.

[carlymac]

Hey marximus,
Post pics of your project when you get it done...I've been thinking about those brackets...carkymac

[marximus]

yeah, no problem. i should get them on monday. ill post pics then on this thread.

[newthings]

I did this on my rack.
I have a right, a left and two out the back.
I have two PIIA 520's for fog and two PIIA 1200's for spots, in the front. I have three PIIA wireless units and switches in the A pillar for switching the three rack directions.
Roy

[marximus]

pictures! i would really appreciate it. it would allow me to get a general idea of what it looks like when done.
-mark

[newthings]

Roof Rack Lights
Here are two pix of side and rear.
+/- 12 volts runs to a water proof box on the rack holding the PIAA recievers.
I understand the wireless units are no longer made-People had problems. I got mine last year on EBAY. So far-So good.
Only two wires are required to feed the rack.
I ran a 2 gage wire from the battery to an attach point in the jack bin. I feed my TV camera, a Cobra inverter and air compressor (All located in the spare space), from the heavy wire termination. I ran a pigtail with a two wire one way connector to the space behind the light module on the rear drivers side. When I hook up the rack, I run drop wire (2) with the mating connector, to the space behind the light.
Roy

[newthings]

Second pix.
Roy