Novak Conversions Jeep Wrangler JK shifters

What did you do to your JK today?

Jermbob28 said:
Acry-tech Duratex’d the carpet on the rear cargo lid. Took two pints but now it is rock hard, durable and easy to clean. It was the only carpet left in the Jeep, I have armorlite everywhere else. I hate carpet, I have a husky, and generally hard to clean.

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Looks good! When summer comes back, I want to ditch my carpet so I can spray bed liner inside. Did that to my WJ. Miss it on my JK.
 
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Installed our Sony XAV-9500ES which will launch this weekend at- Trail Seven!

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WestCoastDan said:
Time to dial-down the brightness of the LED backlights in these switches.

At the same time, I’ll try to be creative and make some type of vinyl sticker with the wife’s Cricut cutter that helps identify what each switch controls.

I’m planning to use 1/2” X 1/2” white squares w/ cutouts to identify these (4) items:
Trail camera
Side/fog lights
Center light
Reverse lights

I’ll apply the sticker over the LED to allow the identifier to be seen through the cutout when the switch is on. If I use while vinyl, they will also be visible when the switches are off.

I may just use a small arrow pointing down for the camera, (2) small arrows pointing up for the fog lights, a large arrow pointing up for the center light, and a pair pointing down on the reverse light switch; unless I can get some better ideas here.
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Hey there . This is a delayed question to your electrical
project . Have a couple questions as planning on additional
lighting myself .
1. You mentioned in another post rear bumper lights hooked
up to reverse lights. So the lights will activate either by switch
or when in reverse.
Did you simply splice into reverse light wiring and good to go.
If so had you had any issues wiring up that way. By way of thrown
codes or weirdness?

2. Were you ever able to get the factory fog switch to operate
a pair of the LED's ? I have led fogs. Was considered a more powerful 3 1/2" led with a spread pattern to help light up closer to the Jeep and out wards towards
the ditches more than what they are doing now . Just designing in my head . As could use fog switch for
those or have them wired up to rest of rock lights and one switch
on pod.

3.This really isn't question but more of ohhhhhhhhhh
ok I get it. When you were speaking of install and the bus
bar cane up. I was wondering "why does he need bus bar",
Totally get it now . Multiple lights into one switch .It
didn't click until I was looking at how to do install myself.
Yeah, I can be slow at times .Lol
 
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Speartip said:
Hey there . This is a delayed question to your electrical
project . Have a couple questions as planning on additional
lighting myself .
1. You mentioned in another post rear bumper lights hooked
up to reverse lights. So the lights will activate either by switch
or when in reverse.
Did you simply splice into reverse light wiring and good to go.
If so had you had any issues wiring up that way. By way of thrown
codes or weirdness?

2. Were you ever able to get the factory fog switch to operate
a pair of the LED's ? I have led fogs. Was considered a more powerful 3 1/2" led with a spread pattern to help light up closer to the Jeep and out wards towards
the ditches more than what they are doing now . Just designing in my head . As could use fog switch for
those or have them wired up to rest of rock lights and one switch
on pod.

3.This really isn't question but more of ohhhhhhhhhh
ok I get it. When you were speaking of install and the bus
bar cane up. I was wondering "why does he need bus bar",
Totally get it now . Multiple lights into one switch .It
didn't click until I was looking at how to do install myself.
Yeah, I can be slow at times .Lol
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Never got the factory fog light switch to work with these LED lights.
I had replaced the original fog lights with a set of LEDs and they worked fine, but not this set.
I ended up disabling the fog light switch with JSCAN.
Wiring into the reverse circuit was the most complicated part of this setup.
It requires a ON-OFF-ON (DPDT), non-momentary switch.
This gets wired such that in the center position the switch is off.
Left position uses the reverse light as the trigger & right position uses a constant +12 run from the bus bar as a trigger.

I needed a bus bar to split off (6) grounds and (6) hot leads to my relay pack from the 8AWG wire that I ran from the battery.
The higher cost relay packs have this feature built in.
 
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WestCoastDan said:
Never got the factory fog light switch to work with these LED lights.
I had replaced the original fog lights with a set of LEDs and they worked fine, but not this set.
I ended up disabling the fog light switch with JSCAN.
Wiring into the reverse circuit was the most complicated part of this setup.
It requires a ON-OFF-ON (DPDT), non-momentary switch.
This gets wired such that in the center position the switch is off.
Left position uses the reverse light as the trigger & right position uses a constant +12 run from the bus bar as a trigger.

I needed a bus bar to split off (6) grounds and (6) hot leads to my relay pack from the 8AWG wire that I ran from the battery.
The higher cost relay packs have this feature built in.
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Ok thanks for the intel
Much appreciated . I know
we spoke of before but it’s
curious that you couldn’t get new fogs to work with factory
switch .
Will wire rear facing rock lights to all the others .
Rarely will need extra lighting when in town as reverse lights do pretty good . If extra light needed will turn on the rock lights .
If wheeling at night they will always be on so will work out well that way
 
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Stalingrad or the Donner Party. I have no mules to eat so I guess it is the Doggy, then my wife eats me next, she has some body reserves, I do not. All Good Merry XMAS forum. Have to save my UBOAT
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batteries for my inverter now. Solar panels, what a F-ing joke, from my Prime Minster who is vacationing down in Jamaica right now.
 
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