marrs1721

I made my own brackets out of sheet metal and attached them to the screws under the bumper. Drilled a hole in the bracket for light. Made just a fork cut out so I can just loosen bolt on bumper and slide in the bracket instead of taking off the bolt which would be a pain. If you look what the bolt is holding you'll understand. Very busy under there. Rather not take that all off.

johnftexas

I bought two of the same lights a while ago but haven't figured out how I should wire em in. Can you discuss what you did or point me to another post?
Thanks!

marrs1721

It's kind of a pain in the butt because the wires were so small. I stripped the wire down to the black and red. Then I stripped them down to the copper like two inches worth. To make the copper thicker I folded it over on itself a couple times. I had to make my own brackets out of sheet metal. Painted them, then placed the light trough it and onto the bolts below the bumper. I only did 2.

I went and bought red and green 16gauge wire from Lowes. 18 gauge will work too if you can find it. Installed the bracket. Ran light through it then connected a red (power) and a green (ground) wire to the respective ones on the lights. Wire nutted them together. Taped them with electrical tape. . Grounded each light to a random bolt under the truck. Ran both power wires from the lights into one power line then used the quick splice clip things to connect into the center cord on my trailer wiring. There are 7 in the circle. The middle one is power. Zip tied the wires down and cleaned it up a bit. Work great. Very bright. I hope that helped. If not let me know.

marrs1721

So I put on my version of the Raptor Grille lights. I spliced into the power on the front running light as another member did. Here is my problem. There is power to the grill lights (3 led's) but the running light where I spliced in to hesitates and sometimes doesn't light up unless I give it a slight tap. I'll mention this. I didn't know which of the three wires was power so I trial and errored. My luck the last one I tried was power. I didn't have a tester nor could I find any info online. So I put liquid tape on the other two. Didn't sever the wires. Just the sheathing around it. I disconnected the grill lights and the running light still hesitates. Any ideas? The wires are not fractured. All are in tact again with butt connectors. Help!

johnday in BFE

iTrader: (1)

There are only two wires on the corner marker light, the yellow with green tracer is the power, the other is the ground of course. The turnsignal/running light has three wires, one is ground, one is lights, and the other is turn. I'd have to look to tell you which is which. But, I tapped into the corner marker. If your new lights work, and the other original one flickers, first thing I'd try would be to take the bulb out and squeeze together the connection in the socket. Next, if that didn't do it, I'd resplice where you skinned back the insulation. You have an intermittent connection it sounds like. These wires are pretty flimsy, and it wouldn't take much to bust the wire.
Tapping into the combination light, ie., your turn signal is fine, I used the corner marker because I didn't have to screw around figuring what was turn, and what was running

marrs1721

Thanks. I'll give it a shot.

marrs1721

Ok. So I taped into the upper corner marker light. Everything works great. I wish I did this from the beginning. Now the problem is that my front passenger amber turn signal is not working correctly. The only time it works is when I put my hazards on, or turn signal on. Other than that it does not work when I just have my lights on. What could that mean? Fuse? I have all 3 wires coming from that turn signal butt connected. Long story.

iRub1Out

The running light signal wire isn't connected.

Your butt connection let go or isn't tight.

marrs1721

I tried them with butts and also with regular wire nuts. Still same thing. I can't get the butt connectors any tighter. LOL. That sounded bad.

johnday in BFE

iTrader: (1)

Not bad, just truthful, we all like 'em tight!LOL
Check out your bulb, maybe you blew the running light side out, it's a dual filament bulb. Just take it out, and hold up to a light, and see if both filaments are still there, or just replace it. It's the same as your tail lights if you'd like to substitute one of those temporarily. Man, wish you had a VOM metre.

Hey, I might be cominng dow your way this weekend, if ya don't have it figured out by then, maybe I could take a look. Coffee is cheap at Timmies.