Video Transcript for Installing the etrailer Fuse Bypass Kit for RVI Shadow 2 Brake System on a 2024 Ford Bronco

Hi, this is Scott with etrailer. Today we're taking a look at, and installing, the etrailer Fused Bypass Kit for the CURT RVI Shadow 2 on our 2024 Ford Bronco. So chances are, if you have the CURT braking system for your Bronco, or any other vehicle, what can happen with these is you can end up, your system will run all the time and you can end up getting a dead battery. What this is gonna do for you is give you a switch where when you're not flat towing, you'll be able to flip the switch inside of your vehicle or out here, and you'll be able to turn this off so you're not getting any drain on your battery. So the switch I was talking about, we have mounted on the inside of our vehicle. Now keep in mind you can mount this underneath your hood or in your vehicle.

We decided to go this route with it, and it turned out really well. What it's gonna allow you to do is just easily click on the system on and off from in here. Now, say you're done flat towing and you plan on being at your camp for a while, you don't want your battery to go dead while it's sitting there while your system's fully hooked up. So this way, this is gonna allow you to click it off right here without having to get underneath your hood and pull a fuse so your battery isn't draining. This is just a really nice option, and it just kind of makes things a total package when you're setting things up for a flat-tow setup.

And this is a great addition to your CURT Shadow 2 braking system. So the way this works is now we have our system off, and all you have to do to kick it back on, say you're gonna do some flat towing, all you have to do is click on your switch and get all hooked up, and you're good to go. When you're done and you're all unhooked and you're not flat towing, all you have to do is click that off, and you're not hooked up to the system anymore. So that's about all there is to that. It's a really simple set up.

If you have any questions or comments about this switch setup for your Ford Bronco, feel free to leave any questions or comments down below in the comment section, or you can get a hold of one of our experts here at etrailer. They'd be happy to help you out. Now as far as installation goes, it's pretty straightforward, but it's kind of a little bit different. You're probably gonna have to drill a hole to get the switch mounted up. But if it's something you don't have time to do yourself, or you just don't feel like messing with it, you can always take a look at our dealer locator and get something done for you locally.

If it's something you feel like tackling yourself, stick around, watch our video and we'll help you get it installed. To begin our installation, we're gonna wanna find a good place to put our switch. And on our Bronco here, there is a spot right here, and you wanna make sure that you have room behind it. What we're gonna do is we're just gonna pop this down, and just carefully pull that back, and that's gonna pop loose for you. And it is hinged, so it will swing down. Now we're gonna have this open area right back behind here, and that's gonna allow this to come back up and have room for the back of our switch. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna pick this location right here, and that's also gonna help us center up a good spot for this to go. So what I'll do is I'm just gonna take a drill and I'm gonna punch a hole through here, and then through, and that'll give me enough room where I can come back in and open the hole up more. So I'm just gonna take a drill bit and get in the center of our location, and I'm gonna come back through. After I get this punched out, I'll have a step bit, and I'm gonna just gradually make this hole wider until my switch fits nice and tight. (drill whirring) What I wanna do is just alternate from one side to the other, gradually getting this bigger. And what I'll do is I'll pop my wires off here and just kinda check and see with my switch, as I go along, the size that I'm gonna need. And we can see we're gonna need to go quite a bit bigger. (drill whirring) Now, after I kept working at this, we did end up getting the hole just big enough to where I was able to thread this in. It was kind of hard to thread in place, but on our particular situation here, we're not gonna be able to put the threaded plastic nut on the back, so I just kept working at this until I got it the right size to where it fits really tight. Now if we look here, we can see how that's gonna look. It's gonna look really nice, it's gonna work well, and you'll barely notice it's there. With our switch in place. Now we'll just put our wires back on the back of our switch. And wanna make sure we have our harness ran through where we want it to go. With that all connected, I like to put a little electric tape around this, and then we'll go ahead and push our panel back up and get it clicked back into place. Now for our duplex wire that comes in our kit, I did end up running that through a grommet back here, and it's kind of hard to see, but I just kind of made a slit in the grommet and then ran my wire through into the cab of our vehicle, and left a bunch of extra out here. Now, when I get it all set up where I want it, I can always pull some out and shorten it up, and I don't have to tuck as much of it on the inside. Now with our particular situation, we're only running one circuit out of ours. It is set up where you can have two circuits coming out of it, and two different fuse holders. I pulled one side of that out, and I'm only gonna be using one fuse holder to our switch. So keep that in mind. You can set that up either way you wanna have that for your situation. Now back in the vehicle, I have my harness, and I'm gonna have these two ends on here that I'm not gonna be using. So all I'm gonna do is just cut those off and strip those wires back. Now that I have those stripped back, I'm gonna twist my wires. And for my duplex wire, I essentially did the same thing, just got those all stripped back. So now I have some heat shrink butt connectors, and I just wanna get them put on the ends of my wire, and get those crimped in place. Now all I have to do is take my other two ends and get them crimped on the ends of our wire. I'm gonna go with the black to the black. Now I'll run my red wire to the white. Now I'll come back through with my heat source and shrink up my butt connectors. (heat gun whirring) Now what we're looking for on these is you're gonna wanna get it shrimped down pretty good, and then you're gonna see most of the bubbles come out. And when we're all good, we're gonna have a little bit of gel come outta that end. That's how we'll know we have a good seal. Now we're back under the hood, right by our RVI Shadow 2, and what I need to do is get some wires connected real quick. So I have my wire that comes out of my Shadow box, and what I wanna do is get one of my wires set up to go to my duplex that I have my ends crimped on. And again, we're gonna use our heat shrink butt connectors on this, especially since it's outside of the vehicle. They work really nice to keep things from corroding in the future. And now we have that we have power running out of our switch to our box. So now what I need to do is get power to our battery. So what I have here is my end, and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use my fuse holder that I cut off of the end. And what this is gonna do is it's gonna give us a fuse that's closer to our battery. So in the event anything happens, or there's a short, it's gonna pop this fuse before it burns the whole line all the way into our vehicle. So I'm just gonna strip this off, and get that connected to my butt connector, and get that crimped in place. Get a good crimp on that, and give a little pull. Make sure we have good connections. Now I'll come back through and heat up my butt connectors and shrink those in place. Now we got everything shrink up here, and it got a good seal on that. And I did go ahead and hook up my negative wire running. That's our blue wire coming out of our shadow box here. And now I'm gonna need to hook up my positive side. So what I'm gonna do is just use one of these terminals that come right off of our battery and I'm gonna take a nut off one of those and I do have the fuse out of our fuse holder. You always want to have that out while you're doing this. Now we'll go ahead and get our ring terminal in place, get our nut reinstalled. Now we'll go ahead and tighten that back down. With that, we can cover it back up. So I went ahead and installed both of our 20-amp fuses. Now we'll check and see if our switch works. We have it off now. Now I'll just click it on and we can check our box and see if we have lights. Now we have our switch off, and I'll click it on, and we can see that our switch is working. Now we have lights coming on on our box, and that lets us know that our switch is working correctly. With our switch working, that'll do it for our installation of our etrailer Fused Bypass Kit for our CURT RVI Braking System for our 2024 Ford Bronco. I'm Scott with etrailer, and thanks for watching.