Just finished doing my relay type 3 headlight mod and thought I would share.
Here's what you will need:
Single Pole Double Throw Relay 20 amps or higher, 4 or 5 pin.
Either 4 female adapters and wire or a relay socket (recommended).
I got both of these on amazon.com for $7.44 shipped to my door from ipodcarparts, I am sure you can pick them up at your local auto parts store as well.
You will also need a sharp knife, wire stripping tool, screwdriver, liquid tape (got mine at home depot for $5), electrical tape, and dielectric grease (Auto Zone).
Steps:
Remove battery, remove pod cover, unplug speedo and gauges, cut all cable ties to give some room, find switch bundle by following it from the switch, carefully cut into it and find the green and yellow wires.
Use the orange and white and brown wires from the 12 volt cigarette outlet for power and ground. Here's how the relay wiring goes:
#30 will be the feed from the battery or the orange wire with the white tracer
#85 will be the ground brown
#86 will be the wire from the high beams yellow
#87 will be the wire to the low beams green
If you get a 5 pin there will be a 87a, don't worry about it, just "dead end" it.
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You will need to strip off a little of each wire to do a tap solder on each of the 4 wires. Make sure you use dielectric grease or liquid tape at all soldered connections to prevent corrosion, I added a wrap of electrical tape as well for good measure. I mounted the relay to the steering column using double side foam tape and a wrap with electrical tape. Don't forget to put a little dielectric grease on the pins on the relay to prevent corrosion inside the socket.
Here's my video to help if you need it:
I want to let all of you know that I am an amature and certainly do not do this for a living, so keep your negative comments to yourself please. My goal is to help anyone who's worse than I am at this kind of stuff.
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