Here is a narrative of what I have so far. I have about ten more pictures and four diagrams. Thanks for the help.
Hello All,
My name is Tony and I am currently restoring my 67 to a RestoMod. I am upgrading to power windows, power door locks, power antenna, electric fan, and relay headlights. I was searching for someone who had done the upgrades and had a nice way to set up/hide the relays but I could not locate a write up so I decided to make my own. Here goes nothing.
I started with a trip to my local u-pull and found two under hood relay/fuse boxes off a 95 Camaro at $7.00 each. It took me all of ten minutes to remove each of them. I also found some junction blocks in an 80’s Blazer. Remember, I want to keep the wires organized, hidden and factory in appearance. The box measures 3”x8”x3” which will fit nicely in between the drivers side front fender well and headlight. It seems that the area is just perfect for the box. Also, I will place the windshield wiper reservoir right above the box which will hide it even more, however I will need to remove it (two screws) if I ever need to access the fuses or relays. The fuse box holds 12 fuses and 8 relays more than enough for what I need. I dismantled the boxes to see how they were set up. You will need a very small flat head screw driver to pop out the terminals from the top. It took me a little while to figure it out but once I did it was easy from there. It will help if you already have the terminals (PepBoys part# 85342) to see how they snap in. If you destroy one don’t worry about it you can harvest another from the spare fuse box (better to have two than one). The next step gave me a headache trying to figure out the wiring. The wiring for the relays was mixed 12 to 20 gauge and I wanted to run all 12 gauge to avoid any problems. Once I rewired everything to 12 gauge I labeled the wires for future reference (relay 1/fuse 1, relay 2/fuse 2) and drew up a diagram. The main red wire is my power in from the battery to the fuse then to the relay. The yellow goes out from the relay to the accessory. The blue wire goes out from the relay out to the switched source + and of course the black wire goes to ground. I will be getting power from the battery to a 20 amp circuit breaker, to the junction block, to the fuses then to the relay then to the accessory. I have included pictures and diagrams to help you out. Everything is in place and all I need to do is wire the accessories as I go along. I hope this write up helps someone out and if anyone has any positive or negative feedback please feel free to let me have it. Hey, I gave it a shot.
If you’re wondering how I mounted the windshield reservoir I used a piece of 1” angle iron drilled a couple holes and tapped them so I wouldn’t have to fumble around with nuts. Thank you and good day.
Relay terminal 30 - (red wire) fused positive from battery
Relay terminal 87 - (yellow wire) goes to accessory
Relay terminal 86 - (blue wire) goes to switched positive
Relay terminal 85 - (black wire) goes to ground
Relay terminal 87a - not used
Sincerely,
Tony
no69for76@netzero.com
