moritzes
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I have an unlit driveway lined by small rock wall, giving my truck about 1-1/2' clearance on each side. Decided to give myself a little more light (don't ask) and settled on Morimoto Backup Light Boost Bar. Pretty small, but puts out 1950 lumens.
Tl;dr
Result? A bunch more light.
Simple install using a $15 7-way connector harness from ebay. Did not want to mess around with tapping my tail lights, but if you have Morimoto tails it's plug-and-play.
7-way wires just pass through harness (preventing any error msgs in truck), harness pulls off a 4-pin connector plus 12V power and reverse light wire. Reverse wire for this harness is red (confirm with multimeter), so I cut off 4-way and separated out reverse wire and ground. Used Wago connectors b/c they do a good job of connecting wires of different gauges. Airstream restorers generally use these instead of soldering or wire nuts because solder joints can break due to vibration and wire nuts disconnect more easily than Wagos. YMMV, but no worries b/c this would be a very simple repair if the Wagos came loose.
"Hardest" part of install was getting the Ford 7-pin connection separated from external plug. Need to pop the little gray piece loose in order to push black tab to disconnect harness. Here, pass-through harness is attached. Wire loom to protect cables can just be seen.
Put a small hole (5/16") in plastic part of bumper next to license plate bolts to pass through light bar wire. Morimoto thoughtfully provides a gasket for the hole.
Used some security bolts I had lying around in feeble attempt to keep someone from stealing light bar if they wanted to.
This post a little long for simple install, I know, but it's Thanksgiving and the football hasn't started yet! Happy holiday to all!
Tl;dr
Result? A bunch more light.
Simple install using a $15 7-way connector harness from ebay. Did not want to mess around with tapping my tail lights, but if you have Morimoto tails it's plug-and-play.
7-way wires just pass through harness (preventing any error msgs in truck), harness pulls off a 4-pin connector plus 12V power and reverse light wire. Reverse wire for this harness is red (confirm with multimeter), so I cut off 4-way and separated out reverse wire and ground. Used Wago connectors b/c they do a good job of connecting wires of different gauges. Airstream restorers generally use these instead of soldering or wire nuts because solder joints can break due to vibration and wire nuts disconnect more easily than Wagos. YMMV, but no worries b/c this would be a very simple repair if the Wagos came loose.
"Hardest" part of install was getting the Ford 7-pin connection separated from external plug. Need to pop the little gray piece loose in order to push black tab to disconnect harness. Here, pass-through harness is attached. Wire loom to protect cables can just be seen.
Put a small hole (5/16") in plastic part of bumper next to license plate bolts to pass through light bar wire. Morimoto thoughtfully provides a gasket for the hole.
Used some security bolts I had lying around in feeble attempt to keep someone from stealing light bar if they wanted to.
This post a little long for simple install, I know, but it's Thanksgiving and the football hasn't started yet! Happy holiday to all!
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