Ok, What my idea is to have a auxillary fuse panel under the hood mainly to hook up gauge lights, switched power, and other accessories. I don't like having all the wires i have going into the fuse block now! especially because it is not mounted permanent and it looks overloadable! Where should i get a fuse block and how should i go about hooking power to it? And any suggestions will be greatly welcomed. Also my whole point behind it is so i can add things later on and don't have to crawl under the dash and take the oem fuse panel down every time!
Thanks ez

 

I know that you can get a fuse panel with 6 circuts that you can feed from the battery. I have seen this from Grote. I have also seen from Painless Wiring a lot of options. From Painless they have lots of options, they do retrofit wiring for muscle cars.

There are more out there but all I know of right now.

HTH

 

I like my Painless. I choose the weatherproof with half hot, half key on.

 

I got mine out of a 95-98 chevy truck,
replaced all the fusible links, and gave me plenty of other places to plug extra stuff, in, can show pictures if you are interested.

 

Please do. I am interested as well.

(Hi-Jack over)

 

I picked up a 6 circuit fuse block from Oreilleys for about $10. Mounted it behind my glovebox (well my brother did). Ran it to key on power and finished filling it yesterday. So now Im gonna add one to all-time power probably. Check my gallery for pictures of it. Real cheap and very effective and clean.

 

I will run out at lunch and grab them

 

 

BUSS makes a very nice six-terminal fuse-block that Advance has for (if I remember right) less than ten bucks.

Available in junk yards, later model trucks (and maybe cars--I never look at cars) have nice under-the-hood power-boxes, with relays, maxi-fuses, and regular fuses, complete with latchable weather-tight covers; Fords and Chevys for sure, not sure about Dodges.

I intend to completely relocate the fuse-blocks in our Dodges to a behind-the-seat location, much like the older/better big trucks use.

I had much rather flip a seat forward and stand erect, than lay flat of my back in a dirty floor-board with stuff falling in my eyes.

 

I still need to clean up all the wires, just ran out of time to dress them all properly,
When i get home i will provide a list of how i broke down the circuits for the fuses.
This whole project took me a day to get where i was, lot of time spend soldering and shrink wrapping. but it could be done in a day now that i know how to break out the circuits.

My advice is to get two of the boxes if you can, this way you can have 2 60 amp fuses for the alternator feeds. the best way to look for the box is to check for the rounded dash on the chevy,not the square one, 95-98 I have about 30 dollars in the two boxes i have. Two boxes also allows me to get more of the pins for the mini-fuses, so theoretically i have enough pins to fill all the mini fuse spaces, when i need more of them.
I am also going to run my grid heaters off the external studs shown in the picture, so everything is in one box.
I moved the starter relay, and need to move the asd relay aslo, since there is plenty of space for relays also
I aslo found the square ford explorers have a lot of the big size fuses and a good selection of sizes, just need to do a little searching at the junkyard



Eric

 

YES, a very good point.

As they come equipped, there are many un-used fuse and relay pockets that are simply empty holes, with no guts in them.

Two, or more, power-blocks can be robbed of enough terminals to fill all the spaces.

 

Thank you all for the great ideas! Now its time to hit the junkyards!
ez

 

Not to mention messing with the major PITA of putting the stock fuse block back on the cover that is supposed to hold it up to the dash. I can honestly not remember the last time I saw one that fit together correctly. Worst design ever.