Driving Light Modification
 

I have been pretty quiet on this forum lately but thought I would share a modification I just completed on the 54. Since I do drive the truck on a daily basis I wanted to improve the lighting for those late night commutes home.

I was replacing the front bumper anyway so I decided to see what I could do in regards to installing driving lights into the bumper. I had seen another truck (ford) in a magazine with fog lights in the bumper and liked the presentation. I did not want to clutter up the front of the truck with some post mounted versions.

Using 4" exhaust tubing, some scrap metal and a pair of Hella Optilux 1300 lamps I went to town.

Here are a few pics.

More pictures of the process can be found on the picturetrail link in my sig for those interested.

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Very Nice! Me Like

Jeff

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nice color too.

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How much light to they throw?? Any chance of a night shot with them on??? Thanks

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great mod.... like the gone in 60 seconds mustang... where did you get the lights?
GT

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Turned out very nice me thinks .....
I found a big improvement as well by doing the relays for the headlights....

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Turned out great.

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Very nice. Look like they belong there.

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I bought the lamps through this place as they had the best pricing.
http://www.classicgarage.com/accessories.html

One of the challenges was finding lamps which were not too small or too large. The Hella Optilux 1300 model I used are just under 4" diameter.

Another challenge was finding material to use as the "cans". A visit to my buddies at P&P Performance in Tomball resulted in a scrap piece of 4" tubing which worked great. The tubing is 4" OD. The ID provides about 5/16" of clearance around the lamps. Getting the tubing to fit the backside profile of the bumper was tedious as was getting them square and pointed straight. I designed adjustment in to the installation so I can fine tune the aim in all directions.

There were other lamp options but I am not a fan of blue tinted lights or the halo style. Rather keep things subtle. The Hella lamps came in a kit with the wiring, relay and switch.

I had a chance to use the lamps Friday night on a trip up to Decatur, Tx for a swap meet and social. They did help but still need to adjust the aim to maximize the benefit. At this time I do not have a shot showing how well they throw light.

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Cool!! I like it, nice job!

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That looks pretty cool.

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nice work brother

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That is very cool. I'm gonna have to try to do that with mine. Hope you don't mind.

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Very nice, looks like they belong there. Was looking at your build pictures, you have build a very cool truck. What is the color from?