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July 27, 2008

Lighting - Mounting The Switches

In a previous post I had some pictures of the safety toggle switches from Purple Cranium. Unfortunately their depth prevented me from mounting them horizontally on the plastic panel under the steering wheel, the metal shield gets in the way. Here are some pictures of the plastic panel removed. Nice how GM left the knee support piece underneath raw steel so it can rust.
I ended up mounting them vertically on the left side of the panel so that they sit to the left of the metal support piece. You can see the thin space on the left of the picture. In the last picture you can see how I bent all the connectors down in order to be able to mount the plastic panel back, otherwise they are too deep.

The switches will be from top to bottom:
- PIAA driving lights (on rack)
- KC 130 Watt driving lights
- PIAA fog lights (on rack)

As usual, I will wire them in so that the driving lights only come on if the safety switches are on AND the high-beams are on. The fog lights will only come on if the safety switch is on AND the factory fog light switch is on.

Lots more wiring and mounting to come ...

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