The scary part - - drilling the whole in the bumper 4 & ½ in hole saw bit into the chrome – measure!! Measure!! And re-measure!!!
Inserted rubber grommet to hold light

See that little brass bit behind the light – yeah it broke so these are not the lights we actually have in
White is the light from the passenger side, red is hot, black is ground. Used 18 gauge wire all the way through the project.
Grounded each light separately to the bumper. Switch is also separately grounded under dash
Tucked loom around frame and secured


Was originally going to tap into fuse for tranny and have tied into Reverse but decided against it. So an on/off switch was all that was needed

For our switch hot in from the lights – hot out to battery – and ground was all that was needed. Check you’re switch for proper configuration

Hot from lights & hot to and from switch through the firewall and connected to battery with an in-line fuse.
With all lights on

Just Reverse Lights

All lights on

 

VERY NICE!!!!

What kind of lights are they?

 

Hehehe they are for a semi trailer, just a regular bulb for now. But the shop had some LED sets that would fit the whole also. Might be an upgrade in my future.

 

I did the same thing on my old truck, except they were mounted to the hitch itself.

I ran a tap from the reverse light power wire to the relay to activate it when th reverse lights came on or with the switch in the cab.

You don't have to tap a tranny wire.

 

That is cool. I may have to copy you. Maybe a set of KC's will fit in there.

 

Nice work! Definitely a future mod for me. I can never see at night backing up, especially with tinted windows.

 

Very nice job!!!

If I can get past the drilling my bumper part, I may have to add this mod.

 

a few beers helps TONS!!! But not tell after you've done the measuring

 

That looks really nice. It turned out quite well. Good job.

I was just thinking on my way home about the previous post you had awhile ago that had a picture with the lights in the bumper, and I was gonna message you to see if you had finished this as I was awaiting it in antisipation. I wanted to see someone else doing before I did as I was paranoid I would screw up and ruin my bumper.

I have the painted black bumpers on mine. Do you guys think that drilling the hole through it would cause the paint to chip on me?

 

Mmmm trucklite. Too bad that switch location is already being used on my truck.






What's scary is she is actually facing the camera