Home Grown Solutions

[Adondo]

I bought a cheap interior light from the local-yokal auto parts store. (About $4) I ordered a patch type LED light from eBay, and tossed the original bulb. The light is mounted about in the middle, close to a removable trim piece in the plastic hatch trim. A wire was fished and spliced into the original (and pathetic birthday candle bright) cargo light. The light has its own switch.

[Adondo]

I upgraded my dome lights to LED's. eBay patch type lights work great, and are cheap. The front ones have one patch each, the center light has a pair of lights. The interior lights up like an open 24/7 Wal-Mart.

[Adondo]

I made my own mounts for the Surco roof rack. I used 3" aluminum angle. The original mounts (Supplied by Foxwing) are for other racks, and normally point up the opposite direction.

[Sal-XK]

Installed a outlet




Ok so got the panel off like most the stuff on the XK it pops off with a little force. Next I decided to use the actual outlet from the inverter it self instead of putting another one in and connecting them some how. So I had to take the inverter apart to accomplish this.


Then I figured out the wires were not long enough to reach the panel and mount the outlet so I needed to extend them and of course I'm out of wire so to the store I go.
Extended Wiring, The blue wire you see is the wire I added. Not the best solder job but it will hold anyway.



Next I traced out the outlet on the panel and used my dremel to cut the shape out.


I screwed the outlet into the panel and mounted the inverter with velcro to the panel. This stuff is strong its actually ridiculous to try and pull apart.


Now the finished product



I ran the wires up the side of the center counsel tucking all the wires inside the counsel. I left the wires inside my dash for now it got late so I'll tie them in on the next nice day we have. It will have full time power regardless if the jeep is on or not.

[Adondo]

Add a roof rack, and your little black button of a satellite antenna will be blocked. Here's the solution.

Buy an antenna from eBay for less than $10. Trust me, they can be had for much less than the $100 everyone claims they cost.




Here's where the Satellite receiver lives. Passenger side, under the rear seat.


Unplug this yellow connector. The new antenna's sub-SMA will plug right in.


Run the tiny cable under the trim to the front door's edge.


Sneak the cable up the rubber trim and pop it out somewhere on top.


Follow the rubber trim, the cable is very small and it's easy. Update: I moved the little magnet mount antenna farther forward, the Foxwing awning blocked it from the side.

[cico7]

Good post Caleb!

[IamJEEP]

Nice panel you made!

Good post Caleb!

Thanks guys!

[IamJEEP]

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