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Pics of the relay board for the MS2 and my modifications to it. This is supposed to be put under the hood and connect back to the MS2 via the DB-37 connection. The relay box contains your fuses and relays and makes it easy to wire everything up. It should handle most under hood situations just fine, but this is a FJ-40 so I wanted to make sure it was sealed off from the elements. I went to my local electronics store... not Radio Shack... ask around there is an old school electronics store somewhere by you. I got an aluminum box that would fit the whole relay box in there and sealed up all the cracks with silicone. Silicone is your friend whenever you are trying to waterproof or insulate anything electical. I needed to create a permanant seal for the top out of silicone, but I wanted to be able to remove the top and not have to reapply the silicone. So I applied a thin layer of vasoline to the lid around the edge, put a thick bead of silicone on the box where it mates with the lid, let it dry a little bit, then put the lid on and screwed it down till it was about 1/8th away from touching the box.
Hole sawed the one end for the wires coming out/in. I have a gromet for this hole and once I run the wires through wrapped in heat shrink... more silicone.
Created an out port for the DB-37. I did it with a jigsaw and a drill. I didn't do the best job... but it is what it is and it works. Again, more silicone.
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