Headlight relay harness construction tips

[Huw Powell]

I would add that the advantage of the higher strand count wire is that
it bends more easily, and hence can be easier to handle, get to lay
right, etc.

> An alternative is to buy a ready-made generic headlight harness, which I
> have seen advertised (Blau?) but I never spent any time investigating. It
> would save you about 4 hours of work with tools and materials that are
> expensive and hard to acquire. It might be prudent to hire the work done by
> a cable specialist, who could build your harness in about 45 minutes or less.

The Hella aux lighting harness (available from Susquehanna, who have a
web site I can never remember, I bet it's obvious though) is a great way
to start for the semi-beginner.  It's got some extra wiring you can
remove (duh, the next time I help Brendan use a pair maybe I will
finally take notes!), a nice fuseholder and relay socket setup, and is
cheap, under $20 each I think.  One for lows and one or two for highs
and then all you really need to do is add lamp sockets ($5 each for H4
style, like sealed beam, at FLAPS) and splice the trigger wires to the
cars original headlight wires.

just my blah blah in addition to Doyt's...

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Huw Powell

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