{"id":1563,"date":"2012-11-10T11:36:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T18:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2012-11-10T11:36:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T18:36:13","slug":"adding-a-few-switches-and-insulating-the-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/2012\/11\/10\/adding-a-few-switches-and-insulating-the-dashboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding a few Switches and Insulating the Dashboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My plan of attack at present is to install all the bits and pieces that need to be wired prior to beginning wiring the wagon. I had thought I was all done with the dash board but something kept nagging at me that I had not done something that needed to be done. As I was drifting off to sleep the other evening, I suddenly remembered that I had not yet insulated the firewall prior to installing all the stuff that I had bolted to it.<\/p>\n<p>Arrrgh! The next day I removed everything and insulated the firewall area, and then replaced all the parts again. While I was at it I also bit the bullet and mounted the dryer for the A\/C line. It is not where I wanted it, I had hoped to mount it out of the way and hidden but could not find a good spot for it. I also installed the switches in the door posts that turn the interior lights on when the doors are opened. And finally I worked out a way to mount the LED lights that I had bought to use as a third brake light\/signal. The LED were mounted in an aluminum tube that was designed for a F1 Ford Truck bed. During one of my many ACE Hardware trips I found some snap in plastic rings that were exactly the right size to hold the LEDs. I used a 1&#8243; uni-bit drill to open the existing mounting hole up to 1&#8243;, snapped in the rings and then the lights &#8211; They look like a factory fit!<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Getting Close to Wiring the Dodge!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unless I am mistaken the only remaining electrical items that need to be installed at this time is the wireless door locks. For that I need to install the door trim, handles and locks, insulation and a test fit of the windows to determine where I am going to mount the solenoids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My plan of attack at present is to install all the bits and pieces that need to be wired prior to beginning wiring the wagon. I had thought I was all done with the dash board but something kept nagging &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/2012\/11\/10\/adding-a-few-switches-and-insulating-the-dashboard\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[16,24,49,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-1956-dodge-sierra-wagon-build","category-interior","category-projects","category-wiring","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JCW3-pd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1565,"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/1565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}