Upper corner lights

Sampuppy1 said:

Nope. The running lights circuit opens when the corresponding turn signal comes on.

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I'm not sure what you mean, my running lights are always on..?

96k1500 said:

If I understood correctly he wants to keep all of the lights that flash stock to flash just wants to do the upper and make it so it don't flash, easy to do just have to use a little extra wire to do it, for the park lamp there is 3 wires to the socket, one is constant, one is for the flasher, one is ground, just splice in to the constant and the ground and it will only be a marker light

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Not exactly what she wants...
I'm a bit confused on the wires you mentioned, my park lamps don't flash? Why would the park light have a wire for a flasher? I'll have to check how mine is when I get it back.
Here's what I'd like to do:

I like the way it looks on pics when the corners are lit up so I'd like to have it like that all the time.

MsChevy said:

Not exactly what she wants...
I'm a bit confused on the wires you mentioned, my park lamps don't flash? Why would the park light have a wire for a flasher? I'll have to check how mine is when I get it back.
Here's what I'd like to do:

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I like the way it looks on pics when the corners are lit up so I'd like to have it like that all the time.

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I see what you are saying. The corner lights are wired in with the parking/bumper lights. When you hit the turn signal the bumper and corner light turn off when the turn signal (brighter filament) comes on. I'm guessing this is to prevent having two filaments going at once in the bulbs and popping or melting the glass from. The heat. That also explains why the housing goes dark if the turn signals are burnt out but the parking lights work. You could use a relay system on both sides that will keep the bulbs on all the time but if the power back feeds you could go through park/turn/bumper light bulbs often.

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I wish I had looked at this post before I did mine. Although mine came out good, this would have saved me some time figuring things out on my own. I went to the salvage yard and got 2 bottom marker lights, and cut those up as the donor light sockets. That worked fine. I also used a Dremel tool to make the cuts with. This worked good on a slow speed. I also did the 4 high beam head light mod at the same time. I found this to be easy by adding a relay on the high beam wire, so that when the high beams come on , the low beams are on as well. It made the high beam light so bright, that I added one more relay on the low beams also. This way the supply for the low beams and the high beams come directly from the battery on a much bigger wire. The original small supply wire limits the amps going into the head light bulbs. Youtube has good videos on how to add a relay to you head lights.Here is the finished product. Click the my pic to inlarge it and see for your self how much better it looks with the corner light, and 4 light high beam mods.

96k1500 said:

So I decided to make my upper corner lights functional marker lights, still got a little bit of work to do but I got the lights done so I'll post up some pics and how I did this.

I had an extra set of clear corners that the lenses were broke on so I decided these were good lights to sacrifice

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I used a razor to cut these up while I was sitting at home bored

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Then I used the pieces I cut out as a template to mark my upper corners

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While I was at work I used the dremel and cut the hole in one light then decided the razor worked better

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Then I used an epoxy we have at work to glue the pieces I cut out onto the light

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Thats all I have done for now but within the next two days I should get the grill done and will post more pics at that time

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2000CCSB said:

Did this a month back or so but stubbled onto this thread and thought I should share my little project. I posted it on another forum but hey why not post it here on gmt400 right?

5mm yellow LEDs 5 in each light.

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I really like LEDs

Enjoy


Crewcab Steve.

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I know it's a really old ass thread, and I hope to get a reply. But did you run any resistors in this set up, or did you splice right into the factory harness, with no resistors?

heres a few pics of mine

I F*cking love those leds in the valance. I'm stealing your style!

Well piss.

Portedfrankenstien said:

I know it's a really old ass thread, and I hope to get a reply. But did you run any resistors in this set up, or did you splice right into the factory harness, with no resistors?

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Did you figure it out or are you still interested in info?

2000CCSB said:

I F*cking love those leds in the valance. I'm stealing your style!

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haha go right ahead i think it looks awesome and i want to see pics when your done!!

canadakustom said:

haha go right ahead i think it looks awesome and i want to see pics when your done!!

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what do they look like? In the daytime, turned off