[FC] Re: Tail lights on the Rampside

[Merv Krull]

Hey Tim... since you have a pretty radical rampy anyway, why not run a 
separate circuit for the turn signals? Modify a couple of relays inside the 
steering wheel housing....?
toodles
Merv Krull
Salmon Arm, BC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TiM M" <mr_tim34 at yahoo.com>
To: "FC list" <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:44 PM
Subject: [FC] Re: Tail lights on the Rampside


>     Thanks for all the great tips. I probably should
> have told you that I had already modified the right
> hand side with a LED board so the wiring wasn't stock.
> The socket had gone bad and I decided to just replace
> it with a bunch of LEDs. It worked fine for about a
> year. I tracked the current problem back to the turn
> signal switch and the left hand rear socket going bad
> as well. The bulb on the left was shorting the parking
> light to the brake light.
>     I now have 25 super bright red LEDs on each side,
> 10 light for the parking lamps and all 25 light for
> the brakes. It works well and should last for the life
> of the truck. The fronts will probably be the next to
> go. How do you get the old lamp socket out with
> breaking things?
>
> TiM
>
> '61 Electric Rampside
>
>
>
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