The Euro 120 Series Land Cruiser comes standard with 2 batteries under the bonnet (hood). In order to run a fridge or other 12volt appliances when overlanding, a 3rd deep-cycle battery is needed to ensure you don't drain the starting batteries. So I decided to install one in the load bay on a semi-permanent basis, and thus had to pull cables to the rear to supply charging surrent tot he battery.
Completed the installation of the cabling and solenoid and auto-voltage sensor today. Once I decided on the cable routing it worked out quite well.
Primary battery and solenoid (not really visible - behind the diesel fuel filter) on side wall:
Grommet on right to shove wires through - they come out behind the glove-box (note - not the cubby-hole anymore ...
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This is where it all comes through:
Mr T kindly left some room in the channels under the door sills for me:
Be careful not to break these stupid flimsy clips - a bit of sideways movement is all it takes
Then ran the cables thought the same channels in the back door, then up under the carpet under the rear seat to exit through the hole in the carpet next to the tie down ring. Batter connected, and all works as intended!
Happy days!
After a break, decided to complete the job ...
Clearly this has been a weekend for finishing stuff off. Finally got round to completing the wiring through to the rear - it's been a semi-permanent Heath-Robinson affair to now, so this has finished it off quite neatly, and permanently.
I pulled the left rear inner panel out so I could get a good lookbehind it - I've been procrastinating over where to bring out the cables, and how to sort it all out. I bought a couple of 165 amp Anderson plugs to bridge from the vehicle to the batery, and have been putting off drilling holes.
Dunno why, considering I drilled a sodding big hole in the wing for the snorkel
So here we are:
Then I finally completed the cable from the battery to the solenoid, via the mega-fuse, wrapped it in a split conduit and shrink-wrapped the ends - looks almost like a bought one!
Found a nice high spot on the firewall to mount the solenoid:
So that's that done - power flows when the batteries are charging and alternator is kicking out 13 volts or so (or something like that - I dunno - but it works, and isolates when the engine is off ...). Hardest part was getting the damn grommets in place ...
Still to come - the Packing System, with a bespoke battery box and distribution points ...
Cheers
Completed the installation of the cabling and solenoid and auto-voltage sensor today. Once I decided on the cable routing it worked out quite well.
Primary battery and solenoid (not really visible - behind the diesel fuel filter) on side wall:
Grommet on right to shove wires through - they come out behind the glove-box (note - not the cubby-hole anymore ...

This is where it all comes through:
Mr T kindly left some room in the channels under the door sills for me:
Be careful not to break these stupid flimsy clips - a bit of sideways movement is all it takes
Then ran the cables thought the same channels in the back door, then up under the carpet under the rear seat to exit through the hole in the carpet next to the tie down ring. Batter connected, and all works as intended!
Happy days!
After a break, decided to complete the job ...
Clearly this has been a weekend for finishing stuff off. Finally got round to completing the wiring through to the rear - it's been a semi-permanent Heath-Robinson affair to now, so this has finished it off quite neatly, and permanently.
I pulled the left rear inner panel out so I could get a good lookbehind it - I've been procrastinating over where to bring out the cables, and how to sort it all out. I bought a couple of 165 amp Anderson plugs to bridge from the vehicle to the batery, and have been putting off drilling holes.


So here we are:
Then I finally completed the cable from the battery to the solenoid, via the mega-fuse, wrapped it in a split conduit and shrink-wrapped the ends - looks almost like a bought one!
Found a nice high spot on the firewall to mount the solenoid:
So that's that done - power flows when the batteries are charging and alternator is kicking out 13 volts or so (or something like that - I dunno - but it works, and isolates when the engine is off ...). Hardest part was getting the damn grommets in place ...

Still to come - the Packing System, with a bespoke battery box and distribution points ...
Cheers