Wiring light bar and ditch lights

I recently purchased a new southern style bumper, winch, light bar, and ditch lights for my 4runner. I don’t know the first step to start wiring all these things to the 4runner because I have never wired anything to a a car. Do I need to buy something to connect all the different lights to the battery. I also plan on buying more lights for the rear end of my car and maybe for my rack. What’s the first step to this?

 

The winch will connect directly to your battery with a disconnect switch if desired (no fusing). With everything that you plan to do, you would be best to add in an after-market fuse panel to power the accessories. Too many people have issues trying to add additional power draws to the factory circuits (with fuse taps) and get error lights popping up. In addition to a new fuse panel, the lights will be operated by relays which allow the power to flow directly to the lights and not through the switch that activates the relay. You should try to plan out any other option you might want to do later that involves the engine compartment (dual battery, onboard compressor, differential breathers, etc.) to get your final layout at the start of the process. I did not want to mount the fuse panel on top of the air cleaner box or the lid to the existing under engine fuse/relay box. So a separate fuse/relay mounting panel was required with my intended layout (pic below). There are many picture on the site of what people have done with their rigs and many online sites detailing automotive wiring to reference.

 

Wow, that was a very thorough response, thank you! I don't think I will ever do a dual battery but I have thought about adding an air compressor so this helps a lot.