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Eurolight Relay Harness: Other Source(s)?? --- Jacob's review
Alright. So I bought one. My Cibie Euro H4/H1's had come in and it was
time to install. UPS Red Label/Saturday delivery for a grand total of $112.
Arrived on Monday... thanks alot UPS. Shipping refund, cost $92.
Installed everything Monday night, with a little modification as necessary.
I selected an 84 4kq as my 'model' of car and worked from there. The
Jacob's harness arrived and came out of the box for inspection. It was
complete down to spare cable ties, various crimp connectors, power taps,
mounting hardware and fuses. The kit was composed of (2) 30A relays, relay
sockets, a weather tight fuse holder, two H4 female connectors, two H1
female connectors, a single male H4 connector to trigger the relays, and
primarily beefy 10 or 12g wiring throughout. All light connectors and the
input plug were connected to the main wiring harness via bullet connectors
or insulated spades (and smaller gauge wiring) so polarity and pin outs
could be changed as required. Wiring color of white and yellow matched my
stock wiring harness nicely.
All the wiring was bundled neatly within wiring loom, and cable tied closed
a regular intervals. The relays had extension tabs so they could be secured
to the vehicle, and were mounted in sockets for easy replacement if
required. The fuse holder also had a mounting tab. The power and ground
wires from the relays to the Alternator were enclosed within a piece of
heavy heat shrink. There were two things I didn't particularly like, but I
worked around them.
Hokey point #1) The wiring from the spades and bullets to the end
connectors drops to 16 or 18g, rather than the heavier wiring used
everywhere else. I would have expected the beefier wire throughout.
Hokey point #2) Being a generic wiring kit, there was plenty of slack. The
distance between lights was almost perfect. The relay trigger was
appropriately close the left headlight connector. But there was about three
feet of harness until the relays and fuse block. Followed by another four
foot section of power and ground leads.
How I did it:
* I replaced the H1 connectors, changing from sealed beam type to the round
connector Audi uses for their Euro lights. Increased wire gauge was in the
process.
* I replaced the H4 type male spade relay trigger with a pigtail connector
that would plug into the stock harness if I unplugged the stock pigtail
ending in a 9004 connector. Increased wire gauge was in the process.
* All these were crimped into the Jacob's harness using heat shrink type
glue crimp connectors.
* I strung the harness from the right headlight, to the left headlight.
Unplugged the left side 9004 pigtail from the stock harness and plugged in
my modified Jacob's trigger pigtail.
* Then came the 3' of extra wire, the relays and the fuse. I coiled and
cable tied all this slack together behind the left headlight, to the side of
the AC condenser. The relays were cable tied upright to a hard AC line.
Same for the fuse holder. All this is covered up by the radiator shroud
when completed.
* Removed the negative terminal from the battery.
* I ran the power and ground feed towards the alternator, removed the excess
shrink wrap, cut the power lead to fit, crimped on a ring terminal and
attached it to the alternator output stud.
* I ran the remaining ground wiring up to the battery, attached it to the
negative terminal, and replaced the negative terminal on the battery.
* Turned on the car, tested the lights, drove down the road to a favorite
wall and aimed them.
Well, I have built harnesses for less in the past, but the quality of the
Jacob's harness wasn't all that bad, and I didn't have to invest the extra
fabrication hours... Now I'm running down the road with Cibie Euro's
(80w/100w & 100w) - and to quote a friend - "Scaring away the UFO's".
Hope this helps others. If you go this route with the dual 4x6" replacement
H4/H1 Euro lights for the early urqs or 4kqs, this harness will do nicely
with only polarity modifications. Using it for the one piece Euro H4/H1's
for the 5ks and 4ks will require a couple hours of simple modifications.
Hope this helps someone else decide.
-S
Stott Hare
85 Callaway 4ktq
84 4ktq (MC conversion in progress)
...Now to fabricate combination city light harness/parking light in the turn
signal harness...
No Mr. State vehicle inspector, this car never came with side marker
lights... or those funny DOT voodoo curses on the headlights...
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:23:48 EDT, Jim wrote:
>In a message dated 4/7/99 8:20:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>sbigelow@sprint.ca writes:
>
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>http://www.jacobselectronics.com/html/products/electrical_acc.htm#headlight
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> rightener >>
>
>Just talked to a guy by the name of Kyle at Jacobs about there relay kits.
>They have kits designd for both my '87 Ktq and my '84 Ur-q. The harnesses
>are both fused and have weather proof relays. The cost is $82.00. Anyone
>use these?
>
>Cheers,
>Jim Hahn