Thread: Chops, The Permagrin

Originally Posted by LRD414

Coming along very nicely Marcus.

I suggest adding some additional protection to the skinny wiring loom that is running under the battery tray. Or relocating it from under there, which is what I did.

The tray abraded mine enough to cause a short to the chassis and there is a canbus wire in that loom. It caused total vehicle shutdown.

Cheers,
Scott

Originally Posted by Chops

Thanks for the heads-up Scott.
Its funny, I was looking at that when I did it and wondered about that. I did make sure it was nice and loose, and I've also de-burred the underside of the tray.
An easy job though to lift it again and give it some more protection which I'll do now .
Thanks again Scott.

Chops - after seeing a previous post of Scott's on this, I also re-located this wiring loom on mine when I recently had the Traxide battery and tray out while chasing down a coolant leak. There is plenty of room between your new second battery (assuming that you will be using an Optima or similar) and the OEM plastic battery compartment. I have re-located the original wiring loom to the front face of the battery box, plus run the wiring for the second battery along this same face. To secure it all, I simply drilled a few holes in the plastic battery box (removing the battery first) and cable tied everything to the front face of the battery box - it all came out nice and tidy. Pretty sure from memory that what I have done was a very similar copy of Scott's previous post.

I'm hearing ya about feeding the wire through the firewall above the go pedal too. I tried for about an hour without success, and ended up with blood everywhere. My young bloke turned up in the afternoon, and while I was getting a torch to show him where the hole was in the firewall, he already had the bloody cable threaded through ................

Another thing that I have done a little bit differently is mounted the Anderson plug under the rear bumper. I found it a pain in the arse having to take off the tow plug cover every time I wanted to plug in battery charger / solar panel / camping lights etc.

You have the same rear wheel carrier as I do and probably the same long range tank. If you do - the rear of the tank is low enough to protect the Anderson plug if you mount it at the bottom of the bumper in a capped housing.

I used one of these housings, and pumped the back of it full of silastic once the Anderson plug & wiring were installed.



Mounted under the bumper to the left of centre. The back edge of the long range tank (with the Lifestyle 4WD sticker on it) can be seen behind the plug.



And with the CTek charger plugged in ............

Originally Posted by LRD414

Coming along very nicely Marcus.

I suggest adding some additional protection to the skinny wiring loom that is running under the battery tray. Or relocating it from under there, which is what I did.

The tray abraded mine enough to cause a short to the chassis and there is a canbus wire in that loom. It caused total vehicle shutdown.

Cheers,
Scott

Had the same issue Scott. Rerouted the cable and no trouble since.

Originally Posted by Chops

Well, its been a fairly busy weekend for me. We had a long 4 day weekend, RDO and the Melb Cup holiday, so made the most of it doing a couple of jobs on the D4.

Gordons Alloy sliders have been waiting, so the went on along with the compressor plate.

Got a bit hungry along the way,,, Leeanne's home made sausage rolls went down well The boss was supposed to working on Monday too,,, he decided he didn't want to play,, so he missed out on a feed

Also fitted the Tablet stand, which seems like it'll work well. Its part of the Rams systems.

Looks great Chops ! The sausage rolls look yummy too....


Is that a low clearance rally trolley jack I can see in the back ground ? Do you actually keep that in the D4 to replace the LR scissor jack, or is it just for the factory/workshop ?

G'day Garfield, thanks, but she'll look finished "properly" when the black wheels from Gordon arrive
Still got to do a couple of things to her, but nothing major.
Looking forward to doing some miles on the dirt with her

Originally Posted by Chops

G'day Garfield, thanks, but she'll look finished "properly" when the black wheels from Gordon arrive
Still got to do a couple of things to her, but nothing major.
Looking forward to doing some miles on the dirt with her

Did you order the black or anthracic grey Compomotives Chops ? I went with the grey, but my D4 is snow white.

I went with the black,, matches the rest


Sorry, I forgot to answer your question last night. The jack at the back of the car is mine. Its fairly weighty and big, but I have a crook back and shoulders, so just want to make it easier when needed.


And the sausage rolls,,,, hmmmmm

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

I was at Gordons workshop last week,he had a set of deluxe sliders he was about to deliver,the voids were filled with checkerplate,NICE!!!!

Those sliders were mine I think- special order with the checkerplate infills, although this seems to be part of the new Deluxe protection offering. I just received them yesterday. I'll post up pics when I get onto the installation- hopefully this weekend

David

Originally Posted by l00kin4

Those sliders were mine I think- special order with the checkerplate infills, although this seems to be part of the new Deluxe protection offering. I just received them yesterday. I'll post up pics when I get onto the installation- hopefully this weekend

David

They would be the ones,Gordon said they were the first set of the new delux sliders.
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