What to do with all my wires

[Jackrabbit41]

I have a $#!& ton of wires going to my battery. I have a few to the fuse box but I have my sub, amp, lights, winch, train horn, PA system, and compressor. It's a mess. My jeeps

Pretty clean inside and out but I'm always embarrassed to do people my battery area because it looks terrible. What can I do to make it look better? Thanks. I've heard of bus bars before but not sure how to go about it

[gogmorgo]

A bus bar is basically a big terminal (generally a chunk of metal like copper or brass) that you hook everything up to. It works, but isn't always the best to implement, given that you now need some form of insulated mount to keep it from shorting out on the body.

One thing that's common is an aftermarket fuse panel. Mount it somewhere like the firewall (inside or outside) and run one wire from the battery to it, and then run all your accessories from there.

If you want a cleaner, oem sort of look, especially if you've got all these accessories running on relays, is a power distribution centre, like the relay block under your hood. Just grab another one in good shape at a junkyard, get all the relays and everything with it, and leave nice long tails on all the wires for proper splicing. Doesn't even really need to be out of a jeep, if you can find one with more slots in something else...

[daking]

I'm getting ready to redo the wiring in my jeep. I started off with a plan and ran the wires clean, but as the build grew some things got added. I'm going to build something like this : 

 

 

But I think you may want something like this : 

 

[Strokermjcomanche]

In addition to the above , another idea is to use a dual terminal battery ( top / side post ) . That would relocate and hide the secondary cables and also keep those large cables from the hood .

 

This is assuming you haven't done it yet ..

[mikekaz1]

Dual terminal. Or marine are very handy. I really like using the marine because you have a nice clean well threaded power and ground lug. I have a plow setup among other accessory's too. And the marines nice as I can tap everything onto the studs. And route them all down against the wheel well and then let them scatter. Still a cluster @#$% in that corner but It makes the initial under hood check pretty clean

[Jackrabbit41]

Thanks il check all this stuff out

[87mjdriver]

another option, if you guys have facebook, search waterproof fuse relay box.

not a bad price

[benjy_26]

I used these:

 

http://www.premierpowerwelder.com/terminals/terminals.html

 

Not the cleanest install, but it looks right if you route your cables properly and they give a solid, reliable connection.

[Knucklehead97]

I used something very similiar to one of these. Only have my headlights and LED pods running off of it currently but it works great for them. Ran a 4 gauge wire to it from the battery and mounted this on my firewall. Not sure how it would handle a sub/amp though.

[benjy_26]

I used something very similiar to one of these. Only have my headlights and LED pods running off of it currently but it works great for them. Ran a 4 gauge wire to it from the battery and mounted this on my firewall. Not sure how it would handle a sub/amp though.

I have something very similar to that as well in my engine bay feeding power to my LED's and headlights. Mine look too small for the wiring found on winches and amps, though.

[Knucklehead97]

Mine only can handle 30 AMPs per post and 100 AMPS per block so I doubt it could handle that stuff haha