- Location
- Denver Adjacent
I've wanted to do this for a while, but never got around to it until a few weeks ago.
As you all know, the X has no lights under the hood. So here's how to fix that.
Parts & Tools:
- COB LED Bars Link Here $7 w/ Prime Shipping
- 4 Zip ties
- Drill bit large enough for said zip ties. I used a step drill
- Yeah...a drill too
- Some touch up paint
- 18 ga wire
- Sharpie
- Soldering Iron & solder
- Heat Shrink tube
- Multimeter or Continuity Tester
- Patience
These are the lights:
I held them up to the underside of the hood, marked two holes on each end and a hole for the wires w/ a sharpie. Then drilled them out to the size of the zip ties.
Once the holes were drilled, I cleaned and painted the area to prevent rust. I chose this location for a specific reason. The angle of the light bars will be directly at the engine and not in your face. That way when you open the hood you have useful light and not blinding light. I don't know if this location is the same for 1.0 trucks as the hood is different.
So then I put zip ties through the holes once the paint has dried.
With the zip ties in drop the wires for the lights into the outside holes, secure the lights w/ the included 3M tape and tighten the zip ties to permanently secure the lights.
Next you need to do whatever you see fit on the wiring. I ran the positive wire down the passenger side of the hood structure and the ground down the drivers side. This is where patience comes in. You need a ground up one side, and power lead up the other, and then you need to run one of each across the front of the hood.
Pause for a beer...
And once that's all done. Solder all of your connections. All the hots and grounds get tied together. I let everything hang out of the two corner holes in the hood structure.
This is where the multimeter comes in. The hood sensor is used for triggering the lights. The sensor is a ground loop. If you unplug that sensor and then test which wire goes directly to ground by putting one probe in the plug and the other to one of the many grounds in the engine bay. Once you find out which wire goes directly to ground, the wire you want is the other one. That way when you open the hood ground is completed to the lights. Use a tap splice to tie that wire to the ground for the lights. The hot runs directly to battery. I chose not to use a fuse because the circuit is so simple.
Don't forget to plug that sensor back in. If you leave it loose the lights won't work.
Once you've tested all your connections, heat shrink everything and shove all the excess wire up in the hood structure.
That it. It's done.
No extra switches, no guess work. Hood up, lights on.
As you all know, the X has no lights under the hood. So here's how to fix that.
Parts & Tools:
- COB LED Bars Link Here $7 w/ Prime Shipping
- 4 Zip ties
- Drill bit large enough for said zip ties. I used a step drill
- Yeah...a drill too
- Some touch up paint
- 18 ga wire
- Sharpie
- Soldering Iron & solder
- Heat Shrink tube
- Multimeter or Continuity Tester
- Patience
These are the lights:
I held them up to the underside of the hood, marked two holes on each end and a hole for the wires w/ a sharpie. Then drilled them out to the size of the zip ties.
Once the holes were drilled, I cleaned and painted the area to prevent rust. I chose this location for a specific reason. The angle of the light bars will be directly at the engine and not in your face. That way when you open the hood you have useful light and not blinding light. I don't know if this location is the same for 1.0 trucks as the hood is different.
So then I put zip ties through the holes once the paint has dried.
With the zip ties in drop the wires for the lights into the outside holes, secure the lights w/ the included 3M tape and tighten the zip ties to permanently secure the lights.
Next you need to do whatever you see fit on the wiring. I ran the positive wire down the passenger side of the hood structure and the ground down the drivers side. This is where patience comes in. You need a ground up one side, and power lead up the other, and then you need to run one of each across the front of the hood.
Pause for a beer...
And once that's all done. Solder all of your connections. All the hots and grounds get tied together. I let everything hang out of the two corner holes in the hood structure.
This is where the multimeter comes in. The hood sensor is used for triggering the lights. The sensor is a ground loop. If you unplug that sensor and then test which wire goes directly to ground by putting one probe in the plug and the other to one of the many grounds in the engine bay. Once you find out which wire goes directly to ground, the wire you want is the other one. That way when you open the hood ground is completed to the lights. Use a tap splice to tie that wire to the ground for the lights. The hot runs directly to battery. I chose not to use a fuse because the circuit is so simple.
Don't forget to plug that sensor back in. If you leave it loose the lights won't work.
Once you've tested all your connections, heat shrink everything and shove all the excess wire up in the hood structure.
That it. It's done.
No extra switches, no guess work. Hood up, lights on.
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