Another lighting thread. Can't find one pic I'm looking for.

[kamokevin]

BadBowtie 98's truck:

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[glendayle]

Thanks. Really having a tough time with this. White w chrome grill. I decided I wanted the dark set. Ordered them. Hopefully I'm happy with how it turns out.

As mentioned before, I will probably keep the yellow corner lights.

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[gmfan454]

Post a pic if you dont mind once you get them. I am going through the same dilema as you.

 

[glendayle]

Sounds good. I will definitely post some pics when I get them installed. Even when I was able to find some pics of a white truck, most of them had a very different grill or grill color. My grill is the Chevy chrome grill. Now just need to figure out what to do about reverse lights. I'm really considering cutting a 3 or 4" hole on both sides and then putting in a flushmount light. Run them off of a relay switched by the reverse lights. Or I suppose I could put a manual switch on them. IDK yet.

 

[kiss4afrog]

These are what I was thinking about for reverse lights.
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Depending on if you would only use them for back up lights, spots would be OK but you might want to consider floods. Floods are nicer if you end up needing the light for other things as you have a wider area lit up. I used to haul a lot of mulch and it was nice having the light in the evenings. Real handy when launching or retrieving a boat !!

 

[glendayle]

I guess you'd have to have a switch for that instead of tied to the reverse lights. Can't just leave it in reverse. I suppose the other thing is that you don't need them all of the time when reversing, just at night or in some low light situations.



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[kiss4afrog]

Using incandescent sealed beams I didn't want to pull that kind of amperage through the neutral safety switch and the stock wiring. I grabbed an un-switched power lead out of the fuse box (fused) and installed a lighted toggle switch in the upper left edge of the removable panel under the steering column. Ran a heavy wire back to the bumper tie wrapped to the brake / fuel lines. Nice thing with LEDs is you don't have to have that big a wire as they don't draw as many amps and if you only tie into the reverse lights you really have it easy. You could also do both if you use a relay in the rear. I modified my tail lights to use the white backup lights as an extra tail light by adding a red LED and splicing the lead to the tail lights.

 

[98_k1500]

Mine use 2 relays, they come on when the cargo light is on, or when its in reverse.

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Never had anyone say anything about obstruction of tag or anything. I was afraid if i cut my bumper, it would rust on the edges and leave big rust streaks down the chrome. If i had mounted them under the bumper, they would be torn off by now.

 

[glendayle]

Doing the double relay so they come in with reverse and the cargo light is a good idea. I hadn't really considered that, but I like it.

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[98_k1500]

Yea, my truck is a manual... can't get out with it running in reverse lol.