{"id":1277,"date":"2023-11-20T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2024-01-22T21:42:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T03:42:12","slug":"let-there-be-light-well-reverse-lights-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/let-there-be-light-well-reverse-lights-that-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Let there be Light! Well… Reverse Lights, that is."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Got back at it this morning after a quick trip to Harbor Freight for a new body saw so I can trim the wheel well openings to install the cut-out ‘wackers (3rd one in just 13 years – 2 in various states of failure from cutting apart the Mach 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First things first – tightened up the valve cover bolts as they were barely finger-tight. I know it said to ‘not over-tighten’ them, but dang – there was a lot of ‘tightening’ left to do. Hopefully, that’s the end of of the oil leak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here’s where we were from yesterday – pulled the main harness loose and started in on cleaning everything up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had to relocate a few things on the driver side to tidy things up a bit (I know it doesn’t look like it, but this is an ‘in-progress’ pic). Still need to find the steering column bolt and get the rest of the main harness over here. The cool hard line for the vapor vent to the Edelbrock Hi-Flow fuel pump was captured between the column shifter hardware – that’s fixed now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SUCCESS!! After running the ’78’ wire over to the starter solenoid, I learned that it needed connectivity to the ‘S’ terminal, not the main ‘Batt’ post I’d suspected (that turned everything on once the battery was connected). I also discovered the 1156 in the passenger side had given up, but I’d ordered some 1156 LEDs to replace them – SCORE! (I still need to modify the YJ hatch to work with the CJ tailgate, but that’s for another day)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wow – my phone’s camera does well with night pics – not even using the ‘Night Vision’ setting. I checked the air cleaner stinger thinking I needed to whack about an inch off, but it JUST clears the hood by a half inch or so, so it gets a reprieve. Everything’s re-ran, and the only thing not terminated and connected under the hood now is the A\/C compressor circuit. That’s about the best I can do with the mess around the bulkhead connector – there’s a lot going on there with the key-powered relay, its fuse block, and the Edelbrock ECU.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I still have some of the bigger Painless sheathing left, so I’ll be putting those on the strut rods to clean up that look and clip all the zip-ties. Then I guess I’ll make some noise with the body saw when I install the ‘wackers. But first, pop on the new wiper blades, fill the wiper reservoir and test to see if the pump still works, run it through a coin-op car wash, and observe things while I’m driving. If I don’t hear any tire buzzing on the stock flares, I’ll take it to the inspection station to get blessed (otherwise, I’ll install the ‘wackers before we get an inspection).

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Got back at it this morning after a quick trip to Harbor Freight for a new body saw so I can trim the wheel well openings to install the cut-out ‘wackers (3rd one in just 13 years – 2 in various states of failure from cutting apart the Mach 1). First things first – tightened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-jeep"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}