How To Wire Roof Rack Lights

Splice the coaxial am fm antenna wire and attach it to the shark fin and route the roof rack wires through the shark fin.

How to wire roof rack lights.

All you need is to bring the positive 12v of each independently controlled light into the cabin engine compartment. We ran the wiring for the lights outside of the rack but you could also run it inside the rack. To run my entire roof rack light setup i ran one 10 ga ground wire direct from battery to a dedicated ground lug on the rack. I have the lights mounting hardware and wiring harnesses but i am trying to figure out the best way to run the wiring from the rack to the engine bay and then into the.

Be sure to put the 3m tape on the shark fin before routing the wires through or install connections inside the shark fin. We ran it outside of the rack for easy access in the future. I d consider routing the wire along the underside of the snorkel from inside the engine compartment then jumper over into the roof gutter if you have one. Although not commonly adopted it is possible to loop the wire from a roof light bar into the back of the snorkel head.

This was the only way i could run the wires and keep them hidden as oppose to using zipties like ive seen others do. Drilling holes on the front plate of the aluminess rack. I used a dremel and drilled holes just big enough to pass the wires through. Once it is in the snorkel head the cable will run down into the dirty side of the airbox and will require drilling through the side of the airbox to penetrate the wiring back into the engine bay.

The circumference of the rack consist of a hollow round bar so you could drill some holes into it and feed the wires through it. That eliminated doubling wires and still gave me an absolutely clean ground. Ah don t know why i didnt update this. Then you could build a 3 piece harness with plugs inside engine bay and then right at the roof rack.

I am planning to install 4 rigid dually spot lights on the front of my roof rack and 2 rigid dually flood lights on the back of my roof rack there are already mounting tabs. Then you would have the option of removing the rack rtt and just unplugging everything. One tips is to sneak black wires they are less visible but use them to run 12v. Each side of your windshield you can sneak 1 or 2 wires down into the engine room.