1973Guppie
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Hi All,
thought I would do a quick writeup to show what I got done on my 80 this weekend. I purchased the george's led's from him for the dome lights, and what a nice product they are! I also purchased the door led's from superbrightleds.com
I wanted to also add some light to the rear lift up hatch. I found some cool little lights at the above website and bolted them onto the rear plastic hatch cover, I wanted them to work the same as an OEM light, meaning I wanted them to follow the same switch function as the rear dome light. I accomplished this by tapping into the dome light at the positive and negative terminals of the actual dome light, routing the wires under the headliner and through the rubber boot thing that connects the body to the lift gate. I had to cut the boot thing in order to get the wire through, but a little tape afterwards sealed it all up. One tech tip for getting your wires through the tailgate side area, pull the existing harness out and tape up your wires to it and THEN push it all through, the stock harness has an existing plastic rod that helps greatly in fishing the wires back through, I also found it helpful to remove the two bolts on the lift gate strut to clear the inner path. Once I got the dome wired, I wired up all the lights on the panel, sautered them together and put a 5 amp inline fuse, some quick connects and I was done.
here are the rear hatch lights: Super Bright LEDs - Car Accents
see the ALM-6 product
Overall I am very happy with the light output and the project, I am stoked that everything worked as if it were OEM from the factory.
thought I would do a quick writeup to show what I got done on my 80 this weekend. I purchased the george's led's from him for the dome lights, and what a nice product they are! I also purchased the door led's from superbrightleds.com
I wanted to also add some light to the rear lift up hatch. I found some cool little lights at the above website and bolted them onto the rear plastic hatch cover, I wanted them to work the same as an OEM light, meaning I wanted them to follow the same switch function as the rear dome light. I accomplished this by tapping into the dome light at the positive and negative terminals of the actual dome light, routing the wires under the headliner and through the rubber boot thing that connects the body to the lift gate. I had to cut the boot thing in order to get the wire through, but a little tape afterwards sealed it all up. One tech tip for getting your wires through the tailgate side area, pull the existing harness out and tape up your wires to it and THEN push it all through, the stock harness has an existing plastic rod that helps greatly in fishing the wires back through, I also found it helpful to remove the two bolts on the lift gate strut to clear the inner path. Once I got the dome wired, I wired up all the lights on the panel, sautered them together and put a 5 amp inline fuse, some quick connects and I was done.
here are the rear hatch lights: Super Bright LEDs - Car Accents
see the ALM-6 product
Overall I am very happy with the light output and the project, I am stoked that everything worked as if it were OEM from the factory.
What's the part # for the door LED's
