Back up light
 

Hey, so my back up lighting situation SUCKS! Ive offend thought about getting a cheep pair of driving lights and hooking one up to my trailer hitch. So that when I put it in R it lights up better. Then I remembered I have a old one that was on the front of the truck when I got it. I never figured out how to turn them on *no switches in cab:lol:*. So how do I go about hooking it up to work like I want?

Re: Back up light
 

You would need to run driving lights though a relay because the wiring from the factory will not support Driving lights , at least not very long.

The normal back up lights in a square body are run thru a light green wire IIRC .yellow =left turn....dark green=right turn....brown=tail lights ,.....black is ground.....light green= reverse lights.

the light green wire runs to the neutral safety switch/backup light switch , low on the steering column

Re: Back up light
 

That's what I did, I just have a switch in the dash that I flip when backing up. They are also nice when trying to back down a boat ramp at 0 dark thirty in the morning. (and occasionally letting tailgaters know I'm not happy about them being so close ;) )

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Re: Back up light
 

Thanks guys for moving it.

On second thought, would it be easier to just hook it up like Augie? I guess I don't need it every time I back up.
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Re: Back up light
 

over on ck5 some guys bought the 50 watt rear light bulbs opposed to the 30 watt stockers, only like 8 bucks, click in no problem and provies 3x the light.

Re: Back up light
 

Pictures are from ajmblazer over on ck5. Bulb is Eiko 1156 - 50 watt from orileys.



Before

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...eforelight.jpg

After

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...afterlight.jpg

Bulb installed

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...tinstalled.jpg