Wiring up Driving Lights in Jackaroo

Jack
at the back of your headlights!
Foxer

Haahaa,tried that, but trying to work out what terminal on the 3 pin plug,wired them up teh other day,and thought I had it,but for soem strange reason,it shorted out the fuse.Not sure about a - or a + trigger?

Thanks Ray,have tried it with teh multimeter,seems that I have found the H/beam wire,and when connected to teh relay and put on h/beam the driving lights came on OK,however when I turned teh lights off I burnt out the fuse!.I may have stuffed up here,so will recheck everything tonight,I was wondering if there was something unusual with Jackaroo wiring??

Hi WhisperingJack I'll have a look at the way my jack is wired with lights and let you know

Regards geoff

Hi there

I had the same fun on my 98 Jack. I'm a electrician by trade so out came the multi meter. You will find that the tricky little buggers who "designed" this circuit had the strange idea of using a relay (normal) but decided to switch the negative supply, positive is the normal way of doing things. So my spot light switch picks up this return negative from the high beam control (stem) it picks this up in the base of the main fuse box (tThrough the spotty switch) then returns to an addition relay I installed, this relay has a positve connected directly to one side of the activating coil & relies on the negavive return from the spot light switch to turn on to close the circuit to the spotties.

Dont forget to fuse the the relays appropriately and use larger supply cables for both + & - wires, the existing cables are pathetic & you will suffer big voltage drop if you rely on them for carrying additional load.

If you need more info I could have a look under my bonnet to refresh my memory of what I did
Use a mutimeter if you have one, it'll save you some grief & maybe a lot of bucks

This is general advice but all it's up to you to verify the correct cables & polarity of any work you do.

Hope this helps

Cheers

Well mate roadworty or else, bugger it if I'm gonna give it to some money eater to hook up 4 wires on mine terrano.
I' m in to electronics, so car electrics are pretty simple to me. Don't know much about specific systems in 4WDs (like what colour is fuel level sender unit wire in someone's '86 hilux, or what's orange wire that is hanging out of someone's jackaroo dizzy and that kinda stuff) but general questions, fork them out. I'll be posting lot of questions here, since I'm new to 4WD scene, so I want to give something in return!
To wire driving lights on to 4wd or any car you can do it in many different ways, depends what you want to do with them! Eg. you want them on with high beam, or you want them on when ever you want to, independent of any other lights. One thing for sure, bloke who wrote about big wires is 120% right! Wires are always better 4 times over rated that "I reckon it's gonna work" type of rating! After all it only 12 volts DC and bunch of switching!!!

Cheers!

good luck, when i wanted themlights to go off with the ignition on the patrol it took 5 relays as each light high & low beam have their own circuit + parkers. driving lights were easy done the usual way.Regards Bob
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Jack - jezd had a look at mine (Lightforces on the 99TD SE Jack).... I played it dead simple...the only way I know... continuous rated relay mounted high in a safe place....main supply to that relay is direct from the battery, with suitable inline fuse near the battery. Earth the relay to the chassis. Earth the lights direct to the battery. The high beam signal is taken off the loom just behind the actual lamp. Can't quite see the wire color ... I poke through the insulation and just use a test lamp until I have the HB supply wire. That wire is then patched through to a switch on the console and back to the relay signal terminal. Works for me. BOL."This is a situation, up with which, we should no longer put ! (W. Churchill, on plans to reduce 4WD access in some parks).

I have a wiring diagram from a russian web site, can't remember the url. post an email address and I'll send it to you. I have had a look at my 98 Jack and it has the wires already there for the Monterey driving lights that go at the bottom of the bumper. The monterey lights are only 55W so power might be a problem they are pretty small. You might be able to chase them back and replace with man sized wire.

Some of the yank forums also talk about getting a switch from dealer that fits into an existing place on the dash, there is a conector for it behind dash, near the dash dimmer switch.

Hope this helps

Glenos

Agree with new Jack, Holden have switched the earth on their vehicles for years. They have learnt that there is far less volt drop on the initial switch on of the appliance (lights, fans, A/C etc)
I have always wired extra items in my cars this way (switching the earth) for quite some time, it is a pain due to extra length in cable required but worth it in my opinion.

Well Bugger me,I've have a long last got them wired up!!
Worked out what I was doing wrong,after rechecking the wiring loom diagram I got from Glenos!.And boy do they make a difference over the standard ones,has anyone wired up the standard headlights with a heavier wire loom and relays?