Anyone instal the underset Agile twin ARB? Wiring issue

[MileHigh]

Of course it’s 4pm on a Saturday and I get most of the way through the instal of the brushless ARB Twin with the Agile kit. The online video is interesting, but not a standard IG (1924) and the install video is for the brushed version. Not a major issue, they have a brushless there.

The issue I’m having getting the wires into something other than a spaghetti mess under the seat. The routing to the back is pretty clear, but the underseat area is what I’m struggling with.

The online instructions are so low res that they are pretty much useless for details like how the wires are supposed to. There doesn’t seem to be enough freedom in the wire harness, and I know these things are going to throw off a lot of heat.

This is from their online PDF, which seems to be VGA resolution ? I wonder if its my iPad?

Has anyone installed on of these?

Pics of the manual and what I’m looking at.

 

[mechdriver]

Here’s how I routed mine

 

[MileHigh]

Thanks, that’s about what I did. The door side black clip I put underneath the air hose, since that is what I think I see they did. DM’d you about something else.

 

[MileHigh]

Thanks for you help! I’m very timid doing this stuff and work it over in head a bunch.

Got it all worked and back in. that big plastic piece on the driver side rear seat is a PITA to get in and out and I’m not sure it needs to be done, at least on my Base 2024 model. You just need access to the fuse box, and I think you could run the wires with the black monster in place.

Also the passenger side seat rear seat can stay. Maybe even the drivers side rear seat.

The written directions picture are pretty worthless, the video is great, but it is an odd ball model, so it isn’t always applicable.

I do say that I’d have no fear removing body panels and running wires.

All that work and you can barely see it…

 

[BEM-S4]

Watch the OWL video for help routing the wires, he does essentially the same thing with much less disassembly.

 

[MileHigh]

Watch the OWL video for help routing the wires, he does essentially the same thing with much less disassembly.

I definitely agree. I think if you’re using the fuse area as seen in the PDF directions, I don’t think you need to either take the seats off or the big black battery area cover. Those two are the biggest pains in the whole process.
You do need to take them off for the 1924 version. I think that is used in the video. And you might need to take the big black battery cover off if you’re doing the brushed version which I guess has much larger fuse box. He mentions that the brushless fuses could even be taken off and just the wires run which I’m pretty sure would make it so you definitely don’t have to pick up black plastic battery cover off.

I did not have the airbag warning come off when I started back up. I heard others had had that. I wonder if it’s because I was so slow that I had left the doors open for so long that the Grenadier had gone fully back to sleep and battery saving mode before I started taking the passenger seat off.

 

[Logsplitter]

I fitted the ARB twin under seat compressor (not brushless). My vehicle is a two seat utility, I took the cable through the existing cable hole into the transmission tunnel then connected directly to starter battery. (Note this is an old photo and I now have an mppt controller, in the place of that Victron mains charger) I unbolted the passenger seat, for ease of installation.
No fault codes, if you wait a while with relevant doors open,
Two x 40 amp fuses for older model with brushes )

before disconnecting battery negative leads.

 

[MileHigh]

Added bonus: the interior of my car is perfectly clean now because I had to remove all of the floor mats and interior panels. I took the opportunity to clean them. The drivers sea area is still a horror show because I didn’t have to work there.

If anyone around Denver is looking to install one, I’d be more than happy to help out. I’d love to see what’s the minimum I need to actually do to get it installed, especially the brushless version. Plus with all these things it’s the first time that is always the most painful.

If you do have to take the big black battery cover off of the rear passenger driver side area, a thin T 50 bit a few inches long would make that easier. And the video mentions that they have plastic T 50 bolts that take a regular screwdriver head for reinstall. Which would be easier considering 4 T50s is beyond overkill.

 

[MileHigh]

Pics

How I generally put the wires. You’ll notice that the bolts are out of the mount. That’s because I had a pile of the interior panels and didn’t realize that there was one that goes underneath the unit. You can see that one on the right hand side of the picture. It took me a while to figure out where it went. Luckily I figured it out before I put the seat back in.

Pretty much at the full disassembly step. This is when my wife walked out into the garage. It was a three Diet Coke job.

I like the video that they did. The guy definitely knows what he’s doing, but he doesn’t do ninja moves or leave you in the dust. Plus, it’s good to hear him grunting and groaning at certain points.

As I said, I think I over unassembled it.

 

[Logsplitter]

Wow With my two seater I didn’t need to take the transmission tunnel apart. Just undone the seat.
Good job

 

[MileHigh]

I’d say that all the steps are pretty simple. It just looks like a complete mess. I’d say the only real issue is that you can’t drive it until you get the seat back in or at least the yellow clip reattached. So make sure you have all the torque’s bits and a 13 mm and 10 mm socket so you don’t have to make a hardware store run.

I only had to use a magnet once to get a bit that I dropped down into the under seat area.

 

[Logsplitter]

Yes good point
Don’t move the Grenadier with seat disconnected. They drove mine in the workshop in Botswana, from one bay to another without the drivers seat. . That set off all sorts of alarms they could not reset. It was only a few thousand km later that I got all warnings cleared when in Namibia.