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04-18-2006, 11:14 PM | #1 |
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'68 side marker lights missing wiring?
This might be a weird question but here goes, my '68 has the factory side marker lights but no wiring for them. my Gramps bought the truck new and he said thats the way it was from the factory. The backs of the lenses have holes for the light bulbs to fit into. I checked all of the wiring and there is no sign of anything being cut. Should it be this way?
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04-18-2006, 11:26 PM | #2 | |
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Re: '68 side marker lights
Yes the 68 just had the lenses 69's were the first one with the wiring harness and real lights
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04-18-2006, 11:32 PM | #3 |
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Re: '68 side marker lights
Thanks, I had no clue what was up. Thought somebody had changed out the lighting harness
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04-19-2006, 02:10 AM | #4 |
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Re: '68 side marker lights
just reflectors
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04-19-2006, 04:41 AM | #5 |
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Re: '68 side marker lights
in both 68 and 69, lights were optional, onless you cot a cab/chassis with DRW, then you were forced to pay for the option by the feds.
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04-19-2006, 06:02 AM | #6 | |
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Re: '68 side marker lights
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One time a cop tried to write me up for burnt-out side marker lights. He said his brother -in-law had a '72 just like mine, and _his sidelights worked. I talked him out of the equipment violation, but I still got the speeding ticket.
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04-19-2006, 06:05 AM | #7 |
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Re: '68 side marker lights
DRW, Dual Rear Wheels
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04-19-2006, 07:24 AM | #8 |
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Re: '68 side marker lights
mine is the same way, kind of. it has the reflectors with the deeper area for the light bulbs, just no holes.
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04-19-2006, 10:28 AM | #9 |
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Re: '68 side marker lights
My '69 has side marker without lights, too. I bought four lights from another board member and plan to install them. My thought was to wire the rear markers as just running lights and wire the front into turn signals. Anyone else do this or see a problem with doing this?
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04-19-2006, 12:32 PM | #10 |
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Re: '68 side marker lights
that is how I did mine; 69 originally without bulbs
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04-19-2006, 02:42 PM | #11 |
its all about the +6 inches
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Re: '68 side marker lights
The berst way to wire the front ones is one wire to the parking light wire, and the other wire to the turn signal wire.
Doing it that way will let it blink when the signal is on (in oposition to the front turn signal) and then burn steady when the parking lights are on with out the turn signal. DRW.. .Dual rear wheel... when a cab and chassis was ordered with DRW, it had to pass certian DOT laws that a SRW did not need to meet. |
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