Vsicks Pathy Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 (edited) The total headlight, horn and thermo fan rewire has began. I refuse to be held hostage to the Nissan headlight switch any longer. All wires will be re-routed so nothing runs accross the radiator support I am just having some lunch before I remove the dash. I have got a few relays in the cabin that I want to relocate also. There are also extra fuses I put in for the engine swap that I have forgotten where they go. I will be chasing the wires again. If I can score a later model dash then that will go in while this is being done. Edited July 7, 2007 by Vsicks Pathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Precise1 Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Try not to melt/short anything... Good luck ! B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedPath88 Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Try not to melt/short anything... Good luck ! B Headlight wiring grr.. have to track down a problem in my other trucks HL's. Let us know how, if at all, the dash swap goes. Good Luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exodus_68 Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 And you took your shirt off to do this because... ? Have fun with that one Steve, I don't envy you at all. If you find a late model dash post up some info on how easy/hard the swapover is. Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vsicks Pathy Posted October 4, 2005 Author Share Posted October 4, 2005 And you took your shirt off to do this because... ? Have fun with that one Steve, I don't envy you at all. If you find a late model dash post up some info on how easy/hard the swapover is. Justin No, it was my windcheater. Progress to date. I kept the music pumping till the very last minute. These are the relays I spoke about. I will be relocating them to the glove box. I will use the ECM bracket to mount them on. I will replace the steering column too. It collasped after a bad landing on a jump. You can see where it has been rubbing on the cowl. I have cut an inch off of the cowl already but it still rubs. The show begins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILLVOX Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 HOLY FLIPPIN CRAP CAKES!!! That last picture of the dash area looks like some of the pathys i find in the junk yards. You are the Man! Good luck buddy. May the wireing gods be with you. :bow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgranch Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 When I saw your last pic I said just about the same thing as Killvox. :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaritimeMan Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Ok, so on a scale of 1- 10 how easy is it to pull your dash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mws Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Hey, that looks familiar! Frankenpathy, meet Frankenvan... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vsicks Pathy Posted October 4, 2005 Author Share Posted October 4, 2005 Ok, so on a scale of 1- 10 how easy is it to pull your dash? 1 being easy. 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaritimeMan Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Any special tricks or hang ups? I need to get back there and track some gremlins down, and I'm not really lookin forward to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabod7 Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 wow. good luck. its so different lookin at a pathy with everything on the opposite side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exodus_68 Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 1 being easy. 2. It's just putting it all back in that causes the problem :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrano Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 its so different lookin at a pathy with everything on the opposite side. I have only recently started feeling somewhat disoriented when looking at pathy with the steering wheel on the left))) so for me looking at these pictures is absolutely ok. What feels strange for me is seeing 180 km\h and some 9K rpm on the dashboard))) I drive a TD27T Pathy, so for me these numbers are 160 km\h and 6K rpm)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vsicks Pathy Posted October 5, 2005 Author Share Posted October 5, 2005 It's just putting it all back in that causes the problem :o It's about the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabod7 Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 yeah, im sure i could get used to it. it'd be reallllly strange trying to shift gears with my left hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheel366 Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 So, that's what the inside of a pathy looks like. It's only been 10 months since I've seen mine so I forgot what it looks like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowOSU Posted October 5, 2005 Share Posted October 5, 2005 ahhh Frankenpathy Frankenvan, meet frankenmaro... not nearly as many wires in this thing though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vsicks Pathy Posted October 5, 2005 Author Share Posted October 5, 2005 Update. I didn't have too much time on the Pathy today. Only about an hour or so before I got rained off. I have a garage but it is full of other bits and pieces. Besides that, when the sun is out, there is no better place to be than outside. I managed to rerout the L/H headlight and indicator wires. I also decided to remove all the connectors I used when I did the engine swap. They were all full of crap (outside the cabin) so now I will be soldering the joints and shrink wraping them. It will be less bulky under the dash without them too. I ran a couple of heavy duty wires into the cabin too. Just in case. I have also been omitting wires that, for the life of me, go nowhere? There is a whole bunch of them around the heater control area. I have my eye on their removel too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vsicks Pathy Posted October 6, 2005 Author Share Posted October 6, 2005 Don't Pathies have head light relays? I have looked but can't find any?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedPath88 Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 Don't Pathies have head light relays? I have looked but can't find any?? Nope... it puzzled me too. When I first got mine, it was having headlight troubles. I asked everyone including dealer service shops, they knew of none and could find none in parts catalogs or on wiring diagrams. But you did remind me, I planned on adding some to limit the strain on my new "expensive" light switch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vsicks Pathy Posted October 6, 2005 Author Share Posted October 6, 2005 That does explain alot. I was forever burning out light switches. I wonder how reliable the Pathy switch would be if relays were wired in. Too late for me though, I cut them already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sw Posted October 6, 2005 Share Posted October 6, 2005 stevey..... i rewired my head lights a little while back with all new good quality tinned flex cable and relays and it worked a treat. it went from stuffing up all the time to not having missed a beat since. they were also ALOT brighter due to there being 14.4 volts at where the globes plug in, instead of like 12 volts (with the alternator running obviously). you didnt see my pm....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vsicks Pathy Posted October 6, 2005 Author Share Posted October 6, 2005 stevey..... i rewired my head lights a little while back with all new good quality tinned flex cable and relays and it worked a treat. it went from stuffing up all the time to not having missed a beat since. they were also ALOT brighter due to there being 14.4 volts at where the globes plug in, instead of like 12 volts (with the alternator running obviously). you didnt see my pm....... Long time no hear old friend. What have you been up to Steevo? Yes I saw it. Just haven't got around to repling. I find it totally insane that there aren't any relays. No wonder everyone has trouble with the lights. I am still putting another switch in. I can't use the old setup now even if I wanted to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vsicks Pathy Posted October 11, 2005 Author Share Posted October 11, 2005 Nearing completion. From this..... To this.... The new and old wires waiting to be hooked up and to be made tidy. Waiting for the dash to go in before the relays can be hooked up. There will be six in the glove box. I have not worked on the car for a few days. The weather has been sh!t and we have had other things on. I spent a couple of hours on it this morning and got it to this stage. I still have to chase up a steering column and see if I can score a late model dash. So I can not do any more work on the Pathy untill I at least have a new steering column. I will also get another section of loom for the Nissan light setup. Given that I will be running high and low beam through relays, I should not have anymore issues with the setup. That's the plan anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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