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I picked up front and rear LEDs for my deuce at a very good price from eBay last week. They both arrived from different sellers on Friday, but I have been busy until today. Soldier B returned from his court ordered birth mother visitation and I was happy to have his assistance again. It's been a long three weeks wrenching solo.
We started with the front since I had already heard the buckets needed to be gutted and the new lights may not line up in my old plastic buckets. As you will see in the pics, they didn't. The middle two screws are off so we used TAN RTV to seal the holes. The gasket probably won't seal the bucket completely from water. I thought of attempting to seal it with RTV, but we decided to drill a hole in the bottom for drainage. I will probably buy another CHEAP set in case that bright idea fails. For the ground I simply used a butt conector wrapped in tape and installed like the old lights were.
The rear was plug and play except for my civie wiring harness. It comes with the short section of wire and round connector you need. When I installed the flat four civie wiring I decided to tap into the tail light wiring vice the truck wiring. My thought was (and still is) I would rather have a wiring problem on the tail light side instead of the truck side.
Having a vice on the bumper and an organized tool box mounted to the truck made things go quickly.
Soldier B traced the wires, figured out the numbers and marked them with colored zip ties. In the rear he had to also keep track for the trailer wiring.
I gutted the 1st bucket to show him how to do it and I also unplugged each wire and reconnected them myself. I trust he could have done it, but if anything were to break on the disconnect I wanted it to be on me. Also I wanted to make SURE each wire was properly connected for the safety of those I share the roads with.
I do not know which flasher my truck has. If someone needs me to check, LMK where to look and I'll get a pic. The truck has nothing else new or fancy so I'm guessing it has the old flasher.
Very happy with the results.
We started with the front since I had already heard the buckets needed to be gutted and the new lights may not line up in my old plastic buckets. As you will see in the pics, they didn't. The middle two screws are off so we used TAN RTV to seal the holes. The gasket probably won't seal the bucket completely from water. I thought of attempting to seal it with RTV, but we decided to drill a hole in the bottom for drainage. I will probably buy another CHEAP set in case that bright idea fails. For the ground I simply used a butt conector wrapped in tape and installed like the old lights were.
The rear was plug and play except for my civie wiring harness. It comes with the short section of wire and round connector you need. When I installed the flat four civie wiring I decided to tap into the tail light wiring vice the truck wiring. My thought was (and still is) I would rather have a wiring problem on the tail light side instead of the truck side.
Having a vice on the bumper and an organized tool box mounted to the truck made things go quickly.
Soldier B traced the wires, figured out the numbers and marked them with colored zip ties. In the rear he had to also keep track for the trailer wiring.
I gutted the 1st bucket to show him how to do it and I also unplugged each wire and reconnected them myself. I trust he could have done it, but if anything were to break on the disconnect I wanted it to be on me. Also I wanted to make SURE each wire was properly connected for the safety of those I share the roads with.
I do not know which flasher my truck has. If someone needs me to check, LMK where to look and I'll get a pic. The truck has nothing else new or fancy so I'm guessing it has the old flasher.
Very happy with the results.
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