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Very interested! Can you share a picture? How annoying was running the wiring?
Thanks, brother!
@Michael Gain
I'm travelling for a week or so, but will do when I get back.
I have the Tactical 4x4 dual jerry can carrier on mine. The Kenwood camera is mounted to the top beam of the license plate carrier with the Kenwood supplied bracket. IRRC the wiring for the factory camera has a enters the tailgate through the wiring bundle on the top of the driver's side of the liftgate. I pulled the trim off of the liftgate, removed the factory camera coax cable from the liftgate and then re-routed it down through the rear corner panel trim where the back speakers reside and then out through the tail light wiring grommet and then through the jerry can carrier along with my power wires for the license plate light.
There was no cutting or remaking terminations required for the factory coax cable. There was plenty of wire length available after removing it from the lift gate. The factory female connector on the coax plugged right into the male connection on the Kenwood camera pigtail.
You will lose your backup guide lines on the camera display since that function appears to reside in the factory camera itself, and not in the head unit. Well worth it to me, as the camera is 100% usable again.
If you can figure out the tools needed to do your own terminations on the very small gauge coax wire that LR uses, you can skip the disassembly of the tailgate. There is a disconnect in the wiring just before it enters the liftgate where you could unplug the homerun to the head unit from the wire that lead through the liftgate. Disconnect there and add your own wiring with terminations out to the back of the truck. I do my own terminations on RG6 type coax, but I didn't want to mess with buying the tools for what would be a one time job for me on LR's tiny little wire.