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Annnnnnnd, lastly but not least, we re-wired the entire cruiser. Took ten days and we ended up pulling out 40-50ft of obsolete/broken/sh***y wire but here it is. So much better. The final straw was the head light fuse started to blow whenever you powered up the lights. That was too far. We stripped it down, went over every circuit and repaired any damage, replaced broken wires, removed all the twisted and taped connections, the "eight different colour wires in one short run isn't a problem" wires, obsolete not doing anything but being a hazard wires, and the old tired fuse panel. We converted it to two group 31 commercial batteries and mounted them in the rear with their own designated 150A breaker. We made our own electrical distribution centre and mounted it where the battery was under the hood. It has a primary and a secondary fuse panel and the secondary is isolated from the system by a low voltage isolater that senses battery voltage and disconnects it automatically is the batteries drop below 11.6V. This way if the lights or the stereo get left on you will always have glow plugs and starter and one or two other things. Wired the winch in with its own breaker and tidied the wiring up and loomed it all. We also replaced the tired, broken wired, nasty, old, busted tail lights with new ones that we ran new wires for.
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