Build Update 06/20/21 — Upstairs LED Lights & Wiring
Running power to the "upstairs"
Today’s goal was to answer the question “how might we run power to the upstairs” for lights, ceiling fan, and any future modifications in the most inconspicuous way possible… Here’s where we my father and I landed.
The first step was to run insulated wiring from the electrical cubby to the front of the bed (bulkhead). We opt’d to fish the wiring under the (side) bed rail cap. This was rather painless with proper fish tape but if you’re still waiting on your GFC and interested in doing this I’d recommend passing the wire while you can still easily pop the bed rail cap off!
From here we moved upstairs to drop the Matt Gecko LED Light Kit into the GFC extrusion and wrap/zip tie/tape the exposed wiring in electrical loom. We also started working on passing the wiring along the fixed platform panel. We used some plastic conduit/channels that we had laying around to help guide/protect the wiring under the mattress.
(I love how the short potion of exposed loom blends right into the extrusion. You’d almost miss it if you weren’t looking for it!)
*ps. The visible excess red wire is in preparation of the fan install that will be tackled at a later date.
The next step was to drill a small hole in the fixed platform panel to pass the wiring downstairs and continue through another plastic conduit channel (that we spray painted black) along the GFC frame to meet up with the harness that we had previously fished under the bed rail. All that was left from here was soldering, wrapping, and zip-tying on either end of our harness.
That’s it! The GFC is now fully wired without a single exposed cable! (Not counting the in-progress fan wiring.)
Other work:
• I decided to trim down about half of an inch of the internal plastic frame on my larger (rear) VRNCLR frame bags to expose more of the downstairs LED lights. This was super easy, did not not ruin the integrity of the bag and fully exposes the strip. (You’ll see the LEDs were obstructed previously in my last post)
• I also quickly dropped in the OEM Toyota Bed Header Rail behind my Cali Raised Panel. I have no idea why but Toyota deleted this part from my model of truck (Another cost saving measure I guess 
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