Cigarette Lighter Wiring?

[motormayhem]

Does anyone know how the cigarette lighter is wired? Mine is disconnected and I would like to run use it for accessorys.

 

[Zinlu]

I don't think they came equipped with one, yours may have been added by someone. I was never able to find a harness for one on my truck, although I did find some light sockets that just didn't have bulbs in them and were tucked away/hidden/taped up. Are there no wires at all to yours to trace back?

 

[319]

The CUCV's were not originally equipped with the lighter socket therefore there is no connector on the harness for one. You'll have to connect a fused wire to one of the spare slots marked "ign" on the upper left side of the fuse block. Before connecting make sure its a 12V slot and not a 24V.

 

[K45]

Since they did not have the cigareet litter that little compartment would have been a slick place to put that big wiring harness plug instead of at the bottom. But that more astetics than anything else.

 

[motormayhem]

The CUCV's were not originally equipped with the lighter socket therefore there is no connector on the harness for one. You'll have to connect a fused wire to one of the spare slots marked "ign" on the upper left side of the fuse block. Before connecting make sure its a 12V slot and not a 24V.

Is there a image or diagram of the fuse block? All the labels are gone on mine.

 

[Zinlu]

Hopefully this diagram will help.

http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showpost.php?p=233428&postcount=15

 

[motormayhem]

Thats what I need, thanks.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

I wired mine to a 12v constant. That way I can use it even if I'm sitting in the truck with the engine off.

 

[motormayhem]

I wired mine to a 12v constant. That way I can use it even if I'm sitting in the truck with the engine off.

Thats what I was going to do to.

 

[JC]

I bought a ash tray for a civilian Blazer which has the cigarette lighter already in it and swaped it with the original ash tray (mine was broken and hung open). I just installed a wire from the battery to the cigarette lighter. I had to drill a hole in the firewall. I put a fuse in the wire so that would blow before anything else.

 

[K45]

Could you not just tie into the 12 v junction block in the engine compartment and then just put and inline fuse and be done with it?

 

[IRWFO]

Yes but it is easier to just run a short wire to the fuse box.

 

[AJMBLAZER]

Yep. There's also an open 12v spot in the fuse box. That's where I got my power for the cig lighter. When I rewired my stereo so it got all constant 12v I wired it to the junction block by the gp relay and master cylinder.