[royce]

Can some of you manly sophisticated vitara owners open your bonnet (yes I know doesnt need to happen very often) and get some pics of your engine bay for me?

especially around the battery for areas a little 4 fuse fuse holder and some relays might be able to be mounted

ill need all the variations, carby, efi, later models, 2 litre etc so theres some fun for everybody

ta

[Joe]

Do ya want pics of mine? its the same as your's

[royce]

yeah cause mines got teh starter battery on the drivers side and aux battery on the pass side and I cant remember how it used to be

[steve]

x90

[Joe]

Mine 96 swb EFI









Kate's 92 lwb EFI





Let us know if ya need better pics

[Fatzook]

SV420

[royce]

they dont make life easy

Joe, your wiring is terrible!

[buzbox]

Hey Joe, It's probably unlikely, but are the battery tray's removable?
They're probably spot welded in, but I presume they can be fitted to earlier models.

[royce]

the later tray over that side is welded in

the early tray on the drivers side bolts in, but doesnt fit the later ones cause its a different booster

[tombutt]

Fatzook wrote:

SV420

sv620 looks to the same as sv420

[fritter]

G16a. Crappy phone pics, Hope they help.











Cheers

[royce]

Do people reckon down beside the battery is an ok place to stick a fuse panel and relays?

[alien]

sealed? cos itll get wet...

[fritter]

yep. nice and cool and about 1.75 inches of space.

[royce]

alien wrote:

sealed? cos itll get wet...

how?

if you have enough water that high up to worry that sort of shit then its the least of your current problems

[fritter]

It's about the only place I haven't got mud.

[alien]

royce wrote:

alien wrote:

sealed? cos itll get wet...

how?

if you have enough water that high up to worry that sort of shit then its the least of your current problems

had my fuse box underwater last year, had to hose it out again when i got home just in case the water was salty. nothing went wrong but yeah, in hindsight i'd like the fusebox more against the firewall behind the battery.

[royce]

cant do on a vitara

sealed or not (all are not cause nobody here could afford a truly sealed fuse box) if electrics go underwater they should all be cleaned and maybe a bit of crc sprayed around anyway cause youll get corrosion on pins and so on

[Polar_Bear]

sv625

[DarkHorse]

I've screwed a 6-fuse block to the firewall directly behind the battery of my 93 LWB - right between that useless black plate and the two ID plates:

Just unclip the loom and push it out of the way.

...and you thought Joe's wiring was dodgy! It's not like that anymore...

[Joe]

royce wrote:

:goodjob:

they dont make life easy

Joe, your wiring is terrible!

Are you talking bout the wires going to the battery
How do i fix it or how should it be wired?
I hate playing with wires and stuff
I'm pretty drunk atm

[royce]

Joe wrote:

royce wrote:

:goodjob:

they dont make life easy

Joe, your wiring is terrible!

Are you talking bout the wires going to the battery
How do i fix it or how should it be wired?
I hate playing with wires and stuff
I'm pretty drunk atm

them skinny wires, what are they? besides a fire waiting to happen?
the compressor power wire you could turn around so its at least poking out of the terminal the same way as teh rest
the fuse for the doof doof should be screwed to something, see if you can get a long chunk of cable and a terminal and screw it to teh firewall

[royce]

Do the earlier vits have a left and right hand headlight fuse under the bonnet?

[Joe]

royce wrote:

Joe wrote:

royce wrote:

:goodjob:

they dont make life easy

Joe, your wiring is terrible!

Are you talking bout the wires going to the battery
How do i fix it or how should it be wired?
I hate playing with wires and stuff
I'm pretty drunk atm

them skinny wires, what are they? besides a fire waiting to happen?
the compressor power wire you could turn around so its at least poking out of the terminal the same way as teh rest
the fuse for the doof doof should be screwed to something, see if you can get a long chunk of cable and a terminal and screw it to teh firewall

Skinny wires are the uhf
Ill play around with the other wires later when i'm a bit less hung over

[royce]

hook the uhf up behind the stereo, either use off the cig lighter if you want it to turn off with the key or the radio memory wire if you want it on all the time

Just had a play with mine, on high beam it drops .5v on the power side and 1v on the earth side, which is quite bad

[Joe]

That's a good idea ill do that so i can turn it off at the key
Why is yours dropping volts?

[royce]

they will all be dropping volts, too thin wire and shitty switches

got a multimeter? you can check yours out too (as could everyone else)

[Joe]

royce wrote:

they will all be dropping volts, too thin wire and shitty switches

got a multimeter? you can check yours out too (as could everyone else)

Nope but Tasbrad does, ill go over there and annoy him soon

[royce]

ok, if you set the meter to volts, stick one end on the battery positve and the other end on teh drivers headlight terminal marked ground, with engine idling and high beam on, the reading is how much you are losing on the positive side

then move the meter to the opposite vertical terminal on the plug and the other probe to battery negative youll see how much it drops on the switching side

in a perfect world you wouldnt want to lose more than .5v total