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Been awhile,

The sube is in Weipa and I've already taken her off road several times. Mostly on account of the roads, but just 5 minutes out of town you can go 4wd and get into serious trouble, especially now in the wet season.

Anyway, on the previous webboard before the rebuild to this version there was on the front page instructions for wiring up driving lights/spotties to my series vehicles.

Is this still available? I've searched the forums but can't seem to find it. If someone could point me to a link or something it would be much appreciated because the article was really quiet comprehensive.

Been fishing and caught a 4kg fingermark bream on my first trip out (soft plastics) and got some quality Javelin to about 2kg each.

First Weipa fishing story>

Bloke from school fishing on the bank has been catching heaps of javelin and some small fingermark. When pressed to what bait he was using he sort of mumbled his answer. Didn't want to pry so let him keep going. Anyway after a while he is still caning the fish and I ask him again what bait he is using and again he gives a cagey answer. Turns out he is embarrased because he wanted to go fishing and didn't have any bait at home so he grabbed a fillet out of the freezer to use for bait. Turns out he was using sweetlip for bait to catch fingermark and Javelin.

only in Weipa.

4wdrift wrote:
First Weipa fishing story>

Bloke from school fishing on the bank has been catching heaps of javelin and some small fingermark. When pressed to what bait he was using he sort of mumbled his answer. Didn't want to pry so let him keep going. Anyway after a while he is still caning the fish and I ask him again what bait he is using and again he gives a cagey answer. Turns out he is embarrased because he wanted to go fishing and didn't have any bait at home so he grabbed a fillet out of the freezer to use for bait. Turns out he was using sweetlip for bait to catch fingermark and Javelin.

only in Weipa.

Nice one!!! A bloke I was talking to here got busted off several times using chicken thigh fillets on the middle wall at Coffs - speaking to the locals, apparently there are a few big kings that live in the marina and have 'seen it all' so throwing something else at them prompts interest...

Javelin Fish and Fingermark are better than any emperor anyway!

Turn on your lights and disconect the plug from one headlamp. Use a test lamp to find which one is the possitive. You need to tee into this wire to make your relay switch on when your lights do. Look on the bottom of your relay and it should have a picture that looks like a switch contact between two of the legs and a coil or zig-zagged line between the other two. With the line you tee`ed off the headlealight wire goes the leg thats part of the coil leg now bring out of the other leg of the coil leg a wire that runs to a leg of a switch on your dash out of the other side of switch put a wire that is grounded to the body. Now get a wire with the apporiate sized fuze and guage and run it from possitive on battery to a switch contact leg of relay. Out of the other switch contact leg put a wire running to both your spotties. Then run a wire from the left over legs on the spotties to ground.

With this setup your spotties can only work with both the headlights and dash switch on. To only use the switch forget about tee`ing off the headlight wire and go straight from the contact leg that you ran to the battery (with the fuse) to the coil leg on the relay then thru to your switch again. Also using a relay allows you to run small guage wire to switch and low rated switch as the power is not actually drawn thru switch but thru the relay. Make sure your spotties are rated less amps (both of them) than the relay and wireing from battery to relay to spotties to ground.

Thanks for the info, I'll fit up those lights tommorrow.

You can use a similar setup from the second example to make your thermoswitch in your radiator last allot longer by not drawing the fans full current through it and also have a switch on your dash. Only draw back is that if relay dies no auxilary fan, so I turn on the switch on my dash periodically to make sure everything still ok. The plus' being that a 20a relay is alot cheaper, easier to change and more reliable than thermoswitchs opperating near their full current. OH yeh this was on a non ac car btw.