Riding with my little man then taking a break, hanging out on the roof having some water and a snack while we watched people ride.













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I don't think I ever posted this, but here's the color match on the switches in the interior.

The top light goes on when the switch is activated and the bottom light goes on anytime the ignition is activated.

This is where I mounted the low voltage disconnect.


I gave it a ground connection and cut the existing power wire from the battery to the breaker and ran the disconnect inline. Like before I used closed-ended terminals and marine grade dual wall adhesive lined heat shrink. Heres the load side to the breaker finished.


A 10 ton hydraulic crimper with the proper dies makes for some very secure connections.


Cables are done.


I notched the positive protective cap for the wire off the battery and it's finished.

Curious, what did you use to crimp your cables? I've been looking for a good hydraulic crimper but they all seem to be quite expensive.

I have this one. It’s nothing special but for how often I actually use it, it’s perfectly adequate.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B06XR...b_b_asin_title

Thinkware Q800-Pro 2 channel dash cam with a hardwire kit for parking mode. 1440p front cam and 1080 rear cam with more bells and whistles than are really needed.




Making sure it’s a neat clean install, one thing often overlooked is to make sure cables are ran BEHIND the side curtain airbags, just poking the wire up under the edge of the headliner is not good enough.


Front



Rear with a custom mount I made.

Front vid sample at full res


Rear vid sample at full res

Yesterday I built the rooftop tent box. I still have to make the harnesses to connect it to the truck though. I changed up my plan a little bit. The circuit up to the roof rack is built to handle 35 amps. I’m going to use the drivers side camping light circuit as the power and ground for the whole box. Power goes in, it’s split by into 5 circuits with a small fuse block. The switches laid out left to right is left side camping lights, red tent interior lights, white tent interior lights, then right side camping lights, plus an always hot 12v power outlet.

@Agent_Outside that box is pretty cool. I was thinking about doing something similar for camping lights as well. are you planning to install double relays so nothing happens if you somehow flip that in tent switch as well as your dash switch?

I want to make it as simple as possible so you have to switch both switches.

I put connectors at the front of the roof rack on both sides, without the tent box hooked up the dash switch’s control the lights. I can disconnect that connector and plug in my tent box in series. So at that point with the dash switch on power will go to the tent box, and then the tent switch will power up the lights. With the box installed both switches have to be on to have light, with the box removed the dash switches alone control the lights.

2 separate interior lights, a red one and a white one.






They work.


My helper.


Right side lights work.


I ran out of wire loom, I still need to do the left side camp lights, and there will be some tidying up to do. I rushed it a bit because our first camping trip of the season starts today. My wife gets out of work in a couple of hours and we'll hit the road. 3 days 2 nights.


Grabbing some groceries for the weekend.

@Agent_Outside King Soopers???? I didnt realize you were in Colorado lol. I am in Castle Rock

Yup, I’m in Erie (Boulder).

Here's our weekend trip to the Curt Gowdy State Park

Packed up and ready to go




We stopped for dinner at this place in Wyoming


Littleman was rocking out to the band playing




Getting setup


The interior lights came out great! Red doesn't mess with your night vision and it doesn't attract bugs.


The white light is bright.


The full moon was crazy bright, I've never seen so many shadows cast by the moon.


Watching some superhero cartoons in the morning.


We had cereal for breakfast (pro tip: individual single servings of almond milk don't need to be kept cold)


We were camped out right next to singletrack.


Lots of trails.


We started with a hike because it was really windy and pretty cold.

He was pretty excited to pet that dog






We didn't make it the waterfall, he decided he wanted to go back and get the bikes so we went back to the truck and ate some lunch.