Following. I’ve had a similar idea can’t mess with it being a lease. Thought this would be a great improvement. When I plug in on the street and my backs facing the light I can’t see a thing.

 

I have a borescope/endoscope (whatever you want to call it) arriving tomorrow to dig around a bit. The biggest challenge right now may be the firewall. If I can't find a clean spot to go through, I might go to some fuse tap up front and look for a fuse that is not on constant but somehow delayed off.

 

I think i found the right part, but now I have to find the right way to remove it...

I hope that the little tabs seen at the top and bottom of the"boot" are tabs on the back side that might be reachable from the back side to slide it out. If it's like the Wrangler, the actual charge port is not attached to it.

 

There is some kind of retainer behind the "boot" but it's all pretty flexible. It appears to be just a push in place kind of clip.

I need to get a long screw driver and apply dome downward pressure to see if it will flex below the lip.

I do have some trim removal tools I might try and lightly Wedge in from the front.

Short video...

 

I, too, desire a light in there. At night it’s difficult to say the least to get plugged in. I’ve tried attaching LEDs to the plug but it’s a little awkward.

 

I am finishing up a project with turning on and off the Pedestrian warning speaker this weekend and hope to start the process of digging into adding a light to the charge port.

I will write something up about it and take pics when I get around to it.

I think the challenge I have is finding a good firewall pass-through if I want to tap into the cabin lights vs just tapping into one of the headlights fuses up front (F54 or F68). I would prefer to find one that was tied to the inside lighting.

 

I am starting to wonder if these points:

Is where you apply downward (on the top holes) and upward (at the bottom holes) to move the little clips from behind the body panel...

 

Found a possible firewall pass through.

Cabin air filter door.



Surprised how open this is to the engine bay...

The cabin air filter is accessible from moving the glove box out of the way.

On another note, does anyone know how to open that door.

Edit:

Credit over to the Jeep Garage forum... Firewall pass through for WL

 

Alright bro, looking forward to seeing your finished product, and I did a few minutes of poking around killing time between coats of Plasti Dip: Aside from Plug shroud removal being pretty easy like I mentioned in the other thread, I found a grommet that comes out right where everything needs to be on both sides of the firewall. It's the hood release cable you were eyeballing before, but since it's molded to the two lines running through it, you do need to poke a new hole. I just put a piece of painter's tape on the tip of a scratch awl to hold a length of cord trimmer line for running as a fish tape and it went through with no resistance.

This then comes out under the driver's kickplate along the left side up from the junction box. I am going to poke a hole in that cover, as well, so it sits flush again.

It's small, the rubber will self heal around it, and you can just slather both sides in RTV if you want to be extra cautious, but it's darn near at the top of the engine compartment and under the cowl, so there's really no concern about leaks at that point anyway since you'd by then have been compromised through a number of other places including the cabin filter pass through.

I ran the trimmer line along the hood release cable within the engine compartment to keep it clear of the prop hinge and strut and to give me something to zip tie it to, under the middle cowl piece, made a sharp U-Turn and tucked it under the cowl trim, and back up the other side in the channel beneath the fender, now safely clear of any moving parts.

 

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