I'd like to share with you what I did for my rear
window,
and many of you folks may have already done something similar. I too
was
tired of having to have a key to always open the rear window. So,
I
schemed up a way to power the window at all times from the dash switch
without
having to splice a single factory wire.
I have a dual battery system, and a 1-in/6-out
auxilary fuse block behind the glove box, (I cut away a small portion
of the back wall
of the glove box to accomodate this). The auxilary fuse block, of
course,
runs off the auxilary battery, at least when the truck is off. So, I
first
took a fuse, (any old fuse) and blew it. I then put the blown
fuse
in the factory fuse block in the position for the rear window fuse.
Now,
the window is obviously not getting power from my main battery with a
blown
fuse.
I then took one of those little power taps (these
are
little clips which are specifically made to clip around an ATO style
fuse)
and put it on the "dead" side of my blown fuse (i.e. the side which is
not
supplied from the ignition switch from the main battery). I then
connected
one end of a 12 guage wire to the fuse power tap with a female crimp on
connector,
and ran it across the dash over to my auxilary fuse block. I moved the
original
mini circuit breaker over to my auxilary fuse block to retain stock
amperage
protection.
Whala! My rear window now works independent of the
ignition
switch, it draws from the auxilary battery when the car is off, and as
an
added bonus, my door windows are obviously on the same circuit as they
now
work all the time too.
I have been using this setup for several months, on
cold
days when the window doesn't want to move and hot days, with no
problems.
I didn't have to splice a single wire, so should I need to return to
stock,
it would take under 3 minutes to reverse the above steps.
Some of you have probably done something far more
sophisticated
than this, but I thought I was pretty clever for thinking this up, and
that's
not a feeling I have often.
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