Adding a Prinsu roof rack with lights- where to power from?

[rchrds]

This is a two pronged question-

The Prinsu has two sets of lights- the camp lights that point outwards from the rack, and a light bar.

1. Ideally I want to run the light bar normally off one of the ACC switches in the cab. How are people running power from roof racks down to the blank accessory plugs in the cab? Making a cab penetration and going to the interior plug? Routing through the rear camera fin maybe?

2. Ideally I'd like to tie the camp lights to the bed light switch. I'd route the wiring the same way as above, but then do an inline jumper to that connector. Has anyone got a lead on factory or aftermarket plugs/pins?

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[Independence Overland]

Run it up the A pillar from the engine bay. I haven't looked closely myself, but I saw a video where Shelden said they left plenty of room behind the pillar for people to run wiring up through it.

 

[geonerdist]

I ran the coax out my cab to my prinsu rack for radio antennas out one of the grommets under the back seat, then up the cab between the bed. Used some wire loom and adhesive zip tie holders to hold the wire bundle to the window.

 

[rchrds]

Run it up the A pillar from the engine bay. I haven't looked closely myself, but I saw a video where Shelden said they left plenty of room behind the pillar for people to run wiring up through it.

I wonder where they expect it to exit the cab if you run up the A pillar?

 

[Duck Amuck]

I wonder where they expect it to exit the cab if you run up the A pillar?

Down the A pillar, under the hood, and through the firewall would be the typical route.

 

[n118nw]

I have the factory aux prewire, but in my previous truck I ran it through the gromet and harness on the driver side door since it fed to the engine bay instead of via a firewall penetration; as far as running it up, I ran my wires from the engine bay up the passenger side A-pillar on the outside and used KC HiLites wire hider https://www.kchilites.com/universal-wire-hider-kc-6300.html

I ran it up the passenger side because I didn't want to force water on/in it when the wipers were on.

 

[BuriedFriend]

This is a two pronged question-

The Prinsu has two sets of lights- the camp lights that point outwards from the rack, and a light bar.

1. Ideally I want to run the light bar normally off one of the ACC switches in the cab. How are people running power from roof racks down to the blank accessory plugs in the cab? Making a cab penetration and going to the interior plug? Routing through the rear camera fin maybe?

2. Ideally I'd like to tie the camp lights to the bed light switch. I'd route the wiring the same way as above, but then do an inline jumper to that connector. Has anyone got a lead on factory or aftermarket plugs/pins?

I’m wanting to do the same with my scenery lights. Please keep me posted on how you did it. I have the lights and rack, just haven’t bought the wiring or anything yet not knowing what I need.

 

[flyingdutchman]

For routing down the front - the new taco has some well-designed channels running down either side of the windshield that are literally perfect for running a 16 gaugex2 conductor wire down into the engine bay. Pretty simple once you're in the engine bay to make it to a fuse block or otherwise.

Inside the engine bay, each firewall passthrough (one on each side of the bay, just on the outside of each footwell) has a little phallic [d*ck-shaped] nub sticking into the engine bay you can clip and easily pass wires into the cabin.


For routing down the back/between the cab and the bed, you can press up to ~14 gauge wire into the trim almost behind the rear windshield and drop it down under the vehicle between the bed and cab, there's a nice plastic trim piece to hide it all here. Then there's a rubber grommet on the each side just below the rear passenger seats (remove the under seat storage trim to see it) this one is a little less elegant to pass a wire through, you will have to cut a small hole in the rubber, but just as straigtforward to pull a wire into the cabin.

personally I've got my roof pod lighting running up the windshield and my mobile/ham radio antenna through the rear. looks pretty stealthy with black wires

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