Running your wiring through your snorkel

[okefenokeefzj80]

cool idea, maybe exit it lower and run it up the drip rail?

I was going to ask... "you must live in Fla" but when I looked at your screen name (Okefenokee) duh !! I recognize the back ground.... spanish moss in your trees post 16 pic 1
I really miss that place... and damn has it changed down there in the past 20 yrs (I grew up on the gulf coast)

The only problem with making the wiring exit lower is that water could get into the snorkel at a lower depth...Although we are talking about 6'6" compared to 7' and I doubt I would ever be that deep anyway.

This area has changed quite a bit, but there are some areas that still keep the old southern charm. It's a great atmosphere and a great place to raise a family.

 

[jaymar]

Sixteen years later--anyone gone ahead and done this? Got pix? I've come to the conclusion that running the wiring for 7 lights through the body is madness, so I'm looking at snorkel routing. To my mind, it MUST be unnoticeable to the casual observer; wires hanging in open space are begging to be jerked on or cut by some rando miscreant. (What can I say, I live in suburban California...)

 

[Irish Reiver]

If you zoom in you can can more or less how i did mine. Cable came up through the snorkel and exited at the point where it would be flush with the water channel. Cable then came up the leg of the roof rack to 2 blue seas 4 pole bussbars. These acted as a disconnect so i could remove the rack when i wasn't using it.

 

[Gerry McGerry]

Sixteen years later--anyone gone ahead and done this? Got pix? I've come to the conclusion that running the wiring for 7 lights through the body is madness, so I'm looking at snorkel routing. To my mind, it MUST be unnoticeable to the casual observer; wires hanging in open space are begging to be jerked on or cut by some rando miscreant. (What can I say, I live in suburban California...)

Wires coming out of the snorkel are still exposed to getting cut?

How are the lights wired, what lights/current draw?

Earth the rack to the cab via the upper snorkel mount, single ground strap, ground the light harness to rack. Couple power wires in a harness run through the rear tailgate seal like post #2 to a connector hidden under the rack. Only plug em in when you're gonna use em, once you're done throw the harness back inside. I'd rather take 30 seconds to connect a harness than drill into my snorkel.

 

[jaymar]

If you zoom in you can can more or less how i did mine. Cable came up through the snorkel and exited at the point where it would be flush with the water channel. Cable then came up the leg of the roof rack to 2 blue seas 4 pole bussbars. These acted as a disconnect so i could remove the rack when i wasn't using it.

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That seems fairly low-profile--for a white LC, anyway. If you get a chance to shoot some other angles, and the exit in the engine bay, I'm all eyes...

 

[jaymar]

Wires coming out of the snorkel are still exposed to getting cut?

How are the lights wired, what lights/current draw?

Earth the rack to the cab via the upper snorkel mount, single ground strap, ground the light harness to rack. Couple power wires in a harness run through the rear tailgate seal like post #2 to a connector hidden under the rack. Only plug em in when you're gonna use em, once you're done throw the harness back inside. I'd rather take 30 seconds to connect a harness than drill into my snorkel.

Yeah, well, there's discreet exposed, and then there's this:

Running your wiring through your snorkel

I've heard of people running their overhead roof rack light wiring through their snorkel. Can people post up how they did this? My main concern is not getting it into the snorkel itself, but how you brought the wire out once you're into the engine bay? Any pictures of installs/setups would be...

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I'm guessing that ^ wouldn't last long hereabouts.

As to the power draw, haven't specced it out yet, but BD is not known for small draws. Only plug 'em in when the rack's on, yes. Maybe stuff/hang plugged connectors inside snorkel when rack off. Thing is, I'm gonna have lights on front bumper and mirror mounts, wired to a sPOD under the hood. Rack light wire runs to that unit will be a lot shorter if they come down the front, instead of running to the back, inside, and then to the front. I don't want a second sPOD in the back just for lights. I don't like the whole idea of a snorkel run, but it does seem the logical choice.

 

[Anvil]

Here's my snorkel wiring. I couldn't bring myself to drill a hole in the roof, so went the snorkel route.

I used a 1/2" snap in bushing on the snorkel for a clean look. Just drill a 1/2" hole and snap the bushing in place. There's room for four - 14 gauge wires to pass through the bushing. I then used silicone to the inside of the snorkel and bushing.

I still need to adjust the wire loom and secure with adhesive.

 

[jaymar]

Here's my snorkel wiring. I couldn't bring myself to drill a hole in the roof, so went the snorkel route.

I used a 1/2" snap in bushing on the snorkel for a clean look. Just drill a 1/2" hole and snap the bushing in place. There's room for four - 14 gauge wires to pass through the bushing. I then used silicone to the inside of the snorkel and bushing.

I still need to adjust the wire loom and secure with adhesive.

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That's pretty clean.

 

[McDowra]

There is my snorkel wiring

 

[jaymar]

Thanks for the shot! How many wires running through that, and how do you exit under the hood?

 

[Irish Reiver]

That seems fairly low-profile--for a white LC, anyway. If you get a chance to shoot some other angles, and the exit in the engine bay, I'm all eyes...

Thats the only shot I have. That truck found a new home a couple of years back.

 

[jaymar]

Thats the only shot I have. That truck found a new home a couple of years back.

Well, what's your recollection of how you handled it under the hood?

 

[Irish Reiver]

Well, what's your recollection of how you handled it under the

For the life of me i can't remember. I know i didn't run the cable into the engine bay as i had a disconnect and blueseas fuse box mounted on the inner fender. The fuses could be reached by removing the indicator lens. I had a lot going on with that truck.