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So finally had time to do some of the planned mods. I hope I've clickie-clickied on the thanks button for all the threads - it saved me countless hours!

So first, I installed the clear sides. Very straight forward, and I did my best with the tin-foil hole cover method. First one was easy, took forever to get the second done. I removed the front inside wheel well covers - it literally took longer to mess around with the floor jack and remove the tires than it did to replace the lights. Awesome!

Moved to the battery float charger next. I'd already decided to use both the positive and negative terminals on the battery for my connections. I wanted to end up with something easy and simply that didn't require removing any covers, etc to hook things up.


As you can see from the last photo, I ended up using the second access plug into the battery box, and mounted a "quik-clip" to the frame above the strut to hold the SAE-2 connector for the charger. Maybe 35 minutes work from start to finish.

Next came the greens - maybe 30 minutes, with at least 15 spent cleaning up things from the old ones - twigs, leaves, bugs - gotta love it.



Final task was the SmartTop. This one I though I'd adequately prepared for, and the only thing I needed to pick up locally was an "add-a-circuit". Five auto shops later, I realized that no one even remotely close had one, so I had to fall back to plan two.

Quick trip over to Radio Shack, and I have a set of four fuse taps. I had already grabbed a set of R/C car battery "quick connects", and measured the distance from the fuse box down to where I was going to mount the controller. I fabricated the power leads, and also mounted the R/C plug connector on the harness for the controller.



Thanks to the excellent instructions here, I didn't have any problems removing the various bits and bobs necessary to get to the wiring channel. I now understand first hand everyone's frustration with opening the canbus connector - I managed to do it with no breakage, and only a bit of swearing. Found a really handy way to keep the carpet out of my hair



Mounted the controller between the two can-bus connectors, and tied down the wiring. I didn't take a really good shot, but I ran the power wires down the chassis alongside the tele-aid speaker, and into the front of the wiring track with the tele-aid wiring.



Connected my power connector, and stuck the key in for a quick test - flashing LED, and I'm a happy camper!!

Last shot before buttoning things up, with the wires run as neatly as possible.



As I said before, the threads here not only made this easy, but enjoyable! Thanks again to all!

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Thank you for the very detailed post.

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