Brake Light Relocation

[tomMTX]

Hey everyone, my first post here. I did a little, ahem, rear tunnel damage last week, and in the process of my repair I'm thinking of ditching the stock light and relocating. My idea was to use a FourBarr LED right on the back part of the tunnel. What I was wondering was has anyone routed the wires inside the tunnel? Or am I just asking for trouble...

Any ideas, especially pics of what you've done to relocate your brake light, ect would be helpful. Thanks!

 

[SilentSno]

I'll take some pictures tonight of what I've done to mine. Its not the best setup as the brake light always gets covered with snow, but it works for now.

I ran the wires underneath and covered all of it with heat shrink and used some little clamps to hold them tight to the tunnel underneath. I need one more clamp, but I haven't had any issues yet.

I was thinking of maybe getting some weather stripping stuff to cover the wires up and might adhesive well enough to the tunnel, i dunno.

 

[ruffryder]

http://www.vehiclelight.com/0300251.html

That is what I used and it worked out really well. Though I don't take credit for the discovery as someone else did it over in the mountain section.

Hope this helps. Note that it doesn't stand up very well to a loose bag banging on it. lol

I ran the wires under the tunnel where the connector is for the brake light at the rear. Just wrapped it a bunch with electrical tape and called it a job.

 

[SilentSno]

Here is my setup

 

[tomMTX]

Cool. Thanks for the ideas and pics everyone, keep 'em coming. Picked up a 14 Light LED from FourBarr today. Gonna wire it in as soon as my tunnel pieces come in. I'll post up some pics of the end result.

 

[ttabs]

HA! I picked up my new Nytro Trubo Friday night and we discussed the same thing!!! How about taking a 1/4" aluminum or copper tubing and running the wires through it?

We're also going to explore relocating the exhaust port inside the tunnel and eliminating the muffler all together. That's a lot of weight there. And, imagine how much storage you'd have under the seat.

 

[tomMTX]

I completed my new tunnel installation and relocated the brake like last weekend. Here's some pics of what I did:

I clipped the original connector to the stock light and put in some quick connects. Once connected, I used Heat Shrink over the connectors to form a water tight bond, yet easily removable if needed. I fed the wires down a 1/2 in ground lawn sprinkler plastic pipe. The pipe is hard enough to withstand major snow and rock flinging, but still nice and light. I used 1/2 electrical conduit clamps to secure the sprinkler pipe tunnel. I riveted them through the stock holes the top tunnel wire cover plastic was attached through. I had to drill two extra holes for the outside rivets.

On the back section my plan was to use a elbow pipe that connected to the main 1/2 pipe, but I couldn't get it feed through and make the connection to the original wire. I snapped off three connectors trying to install the elbow. So, after an hour of struggling discarded the elbow. Instead I used single hole mini clamps to secure the main wire to the FourBarr light, again using stock holes to drop the rivets through. I heat shrink wrapped the whole end to keep it water proof.

I ended up with a polished looking LED that really blends into the tunnel well.

I ripped around in a good 2-4" feet of pow all day Sunday and everything is super sturdy and locked in. I even came home with a good 4-6" inches caked inside my tunnel when I unloaded Sunday night. Knocked out the snow and it's working great. Stoked.

In the end the only think I might have done different was to Heat Shrink both ends of the pipe to form a even tighter water shield.

Thanks to everyone for the feedback and advice to get me started.

 

[sleddheadd]

Picked up a 14 Light LED from FourBarr today. Gonna wire it in as soon as my tunnel pieces come in. I'll post up some pics of the end result.

pics. look great! i have had problems with my brake lights and i really like the look of that tunnel one you have. i looked on the four barr site and did not see them available, did you custom order that?

 

[tomMTX]

It's their standard 14 led, Part#54-0467. On the site they don't show the aluminum cover. Think you can just call them up and have it shipped. I drove up to Marysville and picked it up, dude knocked a few bucks off what it's listed on the side for and I didn't pay shipping. Nice guy.

 

[mtdream]

lighting

Have not even looked at this yet, but do you remember the wiring scheme?

Ground? b/w?
Brake? color?
Running light? green?

 

[KINS]

Re: lighting

Have not even looked at this yet, but do you remember the wiring scheme?

Ground? b/w?
Brake? color?
Running light? green?

I would like to know this as well. Any help would be great.

 

[SilentSno]

Well on the brake side of the connector that Yamaha uses its as follows:

Black: Brake
Yellow: Ground
Blue: Running

That should be it if i recall correctly. I remember blowing a fuse the first time because I assumed Black was ground....

 

[mtdream]

hilarious that they would do that wiring schema

thanks Silentsno!!!

BTW, we will have the T-Nytro in Bozeman this weekend...your welcome to join us if you wish...

 

[tomMTX]

Mine was:

Black: Ground
Blue/Red: Running
Green: Brake

I got lucky on my first try when I guessed it. I was expecting to blow something. Either that or I got really lucky when I connected the FourBarr and used the wrong wire combo there too. There was no instructions with the light indicating what wires were what.