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I have got a year 2000 Fourtrak and I have just fitted a A Bar to it. :o :o I want to fit spots on to the A Bar and was wondering how easy wiring them up should be. Do I need any special bits of kit?? If anyone has done this before I would greatfully use any tips you may have
All the best
tim 
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The big thing to remember is
The big thing to remember is that 4trak headlights are wired 'backwards'. Ie they are earth switched. When you turn the side lights on, the power goes through the switch, to the side lights, then to earth. Prety normal.
However when you switch the headlights on, the power goes through the headlight on switch, then goes up the common headlight wire, through both filliments (diped & main) and all the way back to the dip/main switch. Both of these are conected to earth, so which ever you switch on compleates that circuit.
This setup makes traking down which wires to conect your relay to a real headace.
Also the dimdip (low glow from headlights when you only switch on side lights) will trip any relay conected to the main beem curcit. Hey prestow you have spotlights on with sidelights.
There are several ways around these problems. The best sounding one I've heard (though I havn't tried this one personaly) is to use the blue dashboard main beam warning light as your relay trip wire. Ie splice the rellay actuator wire into the main beam dash warning light feed.
There are other ideas of how to get round these problems on this websit.
Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.
spot lights
I have just fitted spots to mine, the most important thing to do is use a relay, if you dont chances are youll burn out the lighting switch. fairly simple really, main feed wire from battery to relay, one wire from relay to earth, third wire from relay to positive wire of the spots, and fourth wire is the pickup from high beam which i took from the high beam feed at back of light,then found out i had spots on with dim dip(side lights) i got round this by fitting a switch in truck so i can turn them off if im only on side lights.
one other thing the feed wire from batt to relay and the one from relay to spotlights needs to be up to handling the amps that your lights use (ie more powerfull bulbs need thicker wire).
Spotlights
Cheers guys for your help and advice on this matter. After having a look under the bonnet and reading your replys I wimped out
and got a local auto electrician to do it for me. It only took him about 45mins and they look ace now. Cheers :):D
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Auto electrician
Just out of interest, if you dont mind me asking, how much did it cost to get the lights fitted by an electrian??
Cheers,
Nat
Hi, It cost me £50 to have t
Hi, It cost me £50 to have them fitted. That was everything including replay and wires. I did not think that this was to bad. He has done a nice neat job and they work really well.
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wiring of spot lights
it took me about an hour to wire my spotties up, but i didn't wire them through the high beam switch. mine are wire to their own switch geting power from a wire that is active when the key is on ACC. this activates a relay that activates the lights.
Cheers
Geof