3rd Gen Sequoia - Good Floor Cable Penetration location

[Bill Fleming]

I sold my FJ40 project and am shopping for a 3rd Gen Sequoia so don’t have it in hand to start really looking at it.

I am planning to build it out as an overland vehicle to tow our small camper. My plan is to leave our power bank inside the Sequoia and feed solar charging cables in and power out. My thinking is to install a “cable pass thru” in the floor. I certainly would prefer this over a side body penetration.

Any thoughts on the a best location to install this?

 

[RS6tofj80]

you might be able to get it down and thru in the area below the tailight.......in the 80-200's there was a grommet in the bottom of the passenger side panel IIRC...

 

[worldinchaos]

I sold my FJ40 project and am shopping for a 3rd Gen Sequoia so don’t have it in hand to start really looking at it.

I am planning to build it out as an overland vehicle to tow our small camper. My plan is to leave our power bank inside the Sequoia and feed solar charging cables in and power out. My thinking is to install a “cable pass thru” in the floor. I certainly would prefer this over a side body penetration.

Any thoughts on the a best location to install this?

I drilled two holes for grommets in the driver side rear wheel well, between the battery and the rear of the well. They are large enough for 1/0 cables to pass through.

The outside of the wheel well here, showing the liner dropped, but there is a large amount of dead space when the liner is pinned in place.

In case you're curious, the cables then follow other cable tracks to the frame rail, follow the top of the frame rail under the body, then jump into the engine bay once the rail reaches the opening. I used this to connect a power system in the engine bay for winch and air to two 500Amp continuous duty solenoids on the main battery since the 3rd gens use current sensors between the negative terminal/ vehicle ground and positive terminal/vehicle positive and they would fail under heavy winch loads.

But more to your questions, this turned out to be a fairly clean way to pop from inside the cab to under the body. You could easily route it from the rail rear to the hitch area if you want an external connector, plenty of surface area to mount a solar in and power out.