Lighting Mod Help

I'd like to be able to do this:

http://www.scoobymods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57

or something similar

but turn it on and off from my dashboard, where I have blank spaces for buttons (see picture).

Help?

 

Rudolph, the Pink-Nosed Subaru

 

Okay, but if I run the wire into the cabin, where do I get the power from?

 

you run the hot (red) wire with a fuse from the battery directly to the light, and you run the ground (black) wire from the battery to inside the cabin, wire in a switch in series and put it on your dash, then run the wire back out to the hood and to the light. This is the simplest way, but you can also use a relay but the wiring might be a little to complex for you to handle.

 

I'd rather use a relay, but this works.

So I attach it to the battery how?

If someone could just cook me up a diagram that would be awesome.

 

Here you go:

 

haha, thanks. Still need to know how to attach it to the battery.

So I attach the hot wire to a fuse...just use one of the blank spaces in my fusebox?

 

Get a ring crimp connector, crimp to wire, remove small nut on Positive Battery Terminal. Put Ring on, screw nut back on.

 

thats cleaner, but you can just use connectors that goes directly on the battery terminals and use an inline fuse.

 

Can I put the inline fuse in my fusebox?

 

You don't need to run the wire to a fuse, just put a fuse box inline.

You could also probably tap the wire into your switched ignition fuse in the fusebox on the dash rather than running directly from the battery.

 

yeah but that sounds WAY complicated:coolugh:

 

It's really not, check your PM. Is actually really, really simple. Would take no time at all.