Installation manual

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ROUTING
Try to follow these basic guidelines during your install.
Routing Guidelines
 Route the harness away from sharp edges, exhaust pipes, and hood, door, and
windshield hinges.
 Inside edges provide protection from hazards and also provide places for tie
wraps, clips and other support.
 Plan where harness supports will be located. Allow enough slack at places where
movement could occur (body to frame, frame to engine, etc.). Use a support
about every 12 inches.
 At wire ends, don’t depend on the terminals to support the harness. The weight
of the harness could cause terminals to disconnect or copper wire strands to
break.
Wires should be bundled into groups. Use nylon ties, poly split loom, Power
Braid, or tape. Exposed wires of the engine compartment and wires running to the rear
of the vehicle may need some sort of wiring loom or covering. This is especially true for
vehicles that spend time on off-road trails and/or have their four wheel drive capabilities
tested frequently.
FUSE BLOCK
The following section contains information
about the Fuse Inputs, Fuse Outputs, Relay
wiring, and the color coordination found on the
Painless Harness. All wires going to and from the
fuse block are printed with their function and Fuse
or Relay number. The printed descriptions are
indicated in the text and images of these
instructions as bold and in “quotations”
(example: “FUSE 6 OUTPUT”). With this being a
“universal” style harness and with an infinite
amount of configurations this harness can wire,
there will be no specific instructions on connecting
each wire. It will be up to you, the installer, to
determine were to connect each wire. The only
instruction Painless can give is the type of
connection each wire needs and/or the function of
each wire.