Installing Slee's new style headlight harness (1 Viewer)
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The bulb I messed with was the left brake light bulb. As for the right side, it works properly all of the time.
Slim D
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hey akarilo,
i had the exact same issue you are having. it turned out to be the rear light harness was jammed down into the fender and was being pinched. i ended up having to replace the rear harness.
good luck
Just installed today following your write up. Perfect instructions, had it done in under an hour. Thanks again!
I still need to get to this...
What are the differences between the "New" Slee harness and the "Old" one?
Dave
Hmmmm, I wonder, A) When the changes were made, B) If I can easily identify if I have the old or new, and C) when I actually got mine. I think it has been a couple years at least.
Dave
I believe the new harness has a 5-pin relay vs the 4-pin on the old. Apparently the old relay is prone to failure and hard to source. Luckily the pins can be removed from the connector that plugs into the relay, so it may be possible to convert from the old to the new by finding a new relay and connector. This is still on my list of things to do
If you call Slee they can tell you. It was an intermittent failure due to manufacturing issues on some of the early ones.
From my experience with the old-style Slee harness, it was not a manufacturing problem on Slee's part (it was well-made like all of Slee's stuff), but rather the relays themselves that seemed to have problems. The new harness uses automotive-style relays which (in my experience thus far) are much more reliable.
I'll go dig it out at lunch today to see how many pins are on the relay.
The relays have visibly different exteriors.
Slee's install instructions have images of the new relays:
http://www.sleeoffroad.com/installation/harness_install.pdf
The instructions for the aux harness still have images of the old-style relays:
http://www.sleeoffroad.com/installation/harness_aux_install.pdf
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The old harnesses had a relaly with the number 804-1A-C1 on it. It looked like this.
It was a automotive relay, just not a very common one. We decided to replace them with a more traditional 30amp relay that is easily found. The old harnesses can be depinned and the sockets changed. It is just a matter of how comfortable you are with figuring the circuits.
The new one uses a more traditional style that can be replaced with a Bosch or Tyco unit, rather than the generic one we supply. The reason for the generic one is cost. Tyco or Bosch relays are a lot more than generic ones.
All new harnesses that started shipping this week is easily identified by the black sheathing vs yellow on the older harnesses. Auxiliary light harnesses always had the more traditional style relay.
PS, Hayes, you were have the types swapped in your post above.
It was a automotive relay, just not a very common one. We decided to replace them with a more traditional 30amp relay that is easily found. The old harnesses can be depinned and the sockets changed. It is just a matter of how comfortable you are with figuring the circuits.
The new one uses a more traditional style that can be replaced with a Bosch or Tyco unit, rather than the generic one we supply. The reason for the generic one is cost. Tyco or Bosch relays are a lot more than generic ones.
All new harnesses that started shipping this week is easily identified by the black sheathing vs yellow on the older harnesses. Auxiliary light harnesses always had the more traditional style relay.
PS, Hayes, you were have the types swapped in your post above.
I must have a very old one. It takes the early relays and it has some funky little black box that has a blue, grey, and a white wire going to it in the area of plug "G" and it has no plug "H"
Dave
Dave
Can anyone tell if the plugs have been upgraded on the new harnesses, as opposed to the old ones that could encounter corrosion problems? I would like to do this upgrade to boost my HIRs brightness a little more, but like others have expressed, not if reliability takes a hit due to worse-than-oem
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NLXTACY
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Ok so its been over two years now and while I was installing some new wholesome goodness under my hood I glanced over to the Slee's fuseable link wires at the battery. I was blown away to see that the wiring cover has deteriorated and is MISSING from both end of the fuseable link to the point that both wires are exposed
So I will be ordering two sets (one for a spare) from Slee in the morning. Unless Christo is up checking out mud now
So folks, check your fuseable links!
So I will be ordering two sets (one for a spare) from Slee in the morning. Unless Christo is up checking out mud now
So folks, check your fuseable links!
I just put one of these harnesses in a few weeks ago, but did not notice a fuse, did I miss something? It just had a circular connector to attach to the battery terminal, and that wire ran into the mass of relay wiring.
