[FC] Re: Tail lights on the Rampside

[Dennis & Debbie PLEAU]

Last summer when I was hooking up my trailier wiring, I put a set of relays 
in the engine compartment to drive the rear lights.  The light got much 
brighter!


>From: "Merv Krull" <krupross at sunwave.net>
>To: "FC list" <corvanatics at corvair.org>
>Subject: Re: [FC] Re: Tail lights on the Rampside
>Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:34:42 -0800
>
>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>
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>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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