Due to the akward location of the fuse panel I would like to relocate to a more user friendly location. I'm thinking a lot if wire splicing, soldering, and heat/shrink wrap. Can't contort. And keep focus like I use to.
It ain't that hard. More like drilling a hole and re-taping a few inches of wire. See the Tech Article http://mmb.maverick.to/showthread.php?t=64243
How often do you really mess with a fuse panel? My guess is you will mess with it MORE in the process of relocateing it than you ever will if you just leave it alone. Of course...I am a small guy and I contort very easily.
I agree w/ Craig. If u have'nt added any wires/accessories to the panel the likelyhood of blowing a fuse/s are "few and far between". I was considering moving my panel... I decided to leave it and add aux 6 fuse ATC panel for all my added accessories and let the OEM panel work only for the stuff/loads it was designed to carry. I did pull/seperate the panel frm the firewall and cleaned up any buildup/corrision on the contacts, same w/ the fuses holders/contacts, put some WD40 on the unit and reassembled. It has been workin fine every since. The only disadvantage is having to carry different format fuses AGC & ATC... Not a big deal...
I need to find a dwarf every time I need to access the fuse panel. This car is already the smallest size car I can comfortably drive. Imagine Harry from Harry and the Hendersons trying to access the fuse panel. That would be close. I'm thinking I'll be relocating mine before the end of July.
I built mine in a box that's about 6" x 8" and mounted it on a drawer slide. It now has a sheetmetal faceplate with a sticker on it that looks like a radio. It slides out about 10" or so and fits into the factory package tray with minimal mods. All this was done with the car apart, so it'd be a bunch harder working around everything w/o doing it damage...
Yea! It wud be a bit of a challenge doing w/ the car assembled. Nice setup. Question: Where did u but the heat/ac hardware?
It's all Vintage Air stuff, again, this stuff installs with minimal fab work when the car is all apart...
It's really tough getting to the factory fuse block when there's a clutch pedal in the way. I unbolted mine from the firewall, removed the fuses, and soldered some extension wires to the blades. Bolted it back on the firewall and ran the extensions to a new fuse block mounted on the tray to the left of the steering column. If you want to get fancy connect LEDs from the load-side of each fuse to ground through a switch. If a fuse blows the associated LED won't turn on when you close the switch.
