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ARB Bull Bar Indicator light wiring HELP

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Old 08-22-2009 | 03:10 PM
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OK, I've been staring at this all day and it makes no sense. ARB instructions say
1. " From the bar loom, fit the yellow wire/black trace to the vehicle indicator loom white wire/green trace securing with a scotch lock."

The vehicle indicator has 2 white/green that are identicle, which do i use?

2. " To wire up the indicator scotch lock yellow to yellow, black to black"

The indicator from ARB has Red and Black. Would it be yellow to red then or am I looking at the completely wrong thing?

Can anyone help? Any one done this?
Old 08-22-2009 | 06:06 PM
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Originally Posted by ibjeepr
OK, I've been staring at this all day and it makes no sense. ARB instructions say
1. " From the bar loom, fit the yellow wire/black trace to the vehicle indicator loom white wire/green trace securing with a scotch lock."

The vehicle indicator has 2 white/green that are identicle, which do i use?

2. " To wire up the indicator scotch lock yellow to yellow, black to black"

The indicator from ARB has Red and Black. Would it be yellow to red then or am I looking at the completely wrong thing?

Can anyone help? Any one done this?
Don't use the front marker light/turn signal light. Use the side marker light on the fender. It has only 2 wires, white/green and black.

Follow the wire as it leaves the inner fender wheel and has a connector at the opening just behind the grill. You can see it with a flash light easily. Disconnect it, it has a catch on the connector to keep it together, like most do, but it is not to hard to get apart, and it will make it easy to scotch lock the wire on.

This is a picture of the wires on the drivers side, connector is just above my fingers, out of sight of the picture.



And yes you are correct for #2, red is your hot at the light itself, so red to yellow.

I hope this helps out! Let me know.

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Old 08-22-2009 | 11:44 PM
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Awesome..nice one.
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Thanks for the post...
Old 08-23-2009 | 06:34 AM
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Thank you very much for the post and the pic. I'm on my way outside now to see if i can get this done.

If I wire into the fender indicator, do i need bother with the wiring harness at all or can i just splice the bumber indicator right into the fender one?
Old 08-23-2009 | 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by ibjeepr
Thank you very much for the post and the pic. I'm on my way outside now to see if i can get this done.

If I wire into the fender indicator, do i need bother with the wiring harness at all or can i just splice the bumber indicator right into the fender one?
On any other vehicle, I would have just spliced into the wires and been done. But I decided to use the relay system since it was there. The little marker lights don't pull that much power to need separate relays, over kill to me.
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OK so I am dealing with the same thing... not to mention the damn Aussies don't know right from left..... anyway...

if you use the flare light then you lose the turn signal function in the bumper don't you Doesn't it just make it a "parking light". Thought about that myself.... if you do it that way there is no reason to use the relays provided.
Old 08-23-2009 | 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by greenamphibious
OK so I am dealing with the same thing... not to mention the damn Aussies don't know right from left..... anyway...

if you use the flare light then you lose the turn signal function in the bumper don't you Doesn't it just make it a "parking light". Thought about that myself.... if you do it that way there is no reason to use the relays provided.

Oh crap didn't even think of that. I want the bumper indicator to flash.

Now I'm back to i don't know which wire to use on the grill indicator. They are both white green.
Old 08-23-2009 | 01:09 PM
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OK I got it wired up. It is the outside wire. it's Black, green/white, green/white and it is the green/white to the outside that you use.

Also, when wiring up the fog lights, all I did was unbundle the wires from the rest of them for both sides and it reached. A bit tight but it reached. Didn't use any of the wiring parts ARB supplied for that.
Old 08-23-2009 | 01:45 PM
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snap a couple pics. Is it just me or does the instructions show the battery on the driver side in other words you have to pretty much wire up the reverse of what they are saying to do. I had to run the ARB wire loom down the pass side and drop in down behind the airbox (not the washer fluid box like they said).

Foglights were a cake walk... this turn signal chit is confusing... ARB build quality products now all the nee is some one who knows how to write instructions.
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