Sold my MJ

[Kyleinreallife]

And found a Wagoneer. :)

 

 

87' 4x4 Sportruck

[Pete M]

looks good!  are those spots where the highbeams were?

[schardein]

What year?  I had an 89 XJ Wagoneer, same color black/woodgrain.  I loved that Jeep, wish I'd never sold it.

[Kyleinreallife]

It's an 87, same year as my MJ was, which coincidentally, I sold back to the guy I bought it from. And yea, the PO replaced the regular headlights with spot leds, not quite as bright as I'd like but they work for now. Stock high beams on bottom, he gave me he stock headlights too, but he plastidipped them to look like slanted eyes....freakin vape kids.


87' 4x4 Sportruck

[Pete M]

wait, he replaced the low beams with spots?!  and what exactly was the look he was going for on a jeep with 4 lights if you make angry eyes in the top ones only?  well, at least you can scrape the stock ones clean and install some relays for the lights.  

 

what an idiot.  

[Minuit]

5 minutes ago, Pete M said:

what an idiot.  

Sounds about right for the plastidipped angry headlights segment of the population. 

[ftpiercecracker1]

I recommend linking high and low beams together for Extra high beams. I did this a long time ago and will never go back.

[Kyleinreallife]

I recommend linking high and low beams together for Extra high beams. I did this a long time ago and will never go back.

How do I do that?


87' 4x4 Sportruck

[ftpiercecracker1]

Under the hood, on the drivers side, towards the very front is the headlight harness plug. Usually between the factory air box the the fender well. You will have to do some testing to determine which wire is for which function.

 

 

 

This is the simplest, but not the best. The best in my opinion would be to have an individual relay for both high and low beams. Since you have pods for upper (high?) beams they may already be using a relay, so adding a second would be redundant. 

 

 

 

As you can see in the diagram there will be backfeed into the relay when only low beams are in use. This is how mine have been setup for years and i have never had an issue.

 

Also, not seen in the diagram, power will backfeed into headlight switch via low beam circut when high beam/low beam are active. Blue line should travel to Low beams and in the opposite direction, the backwards flow is the missing blue line.