- Conversion to LED's Lights
- Front and Rear
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Update May 13, 2007, I found some new front turn
signal LED lamps on eBay that I likes and this is a move back the
civilian style lights once again. I never really liked my half ass
make shift front lights using the military light housing and at the
time back when I did the change, the military LED lights also did
not meet DOT codes and they where not so bright looking. Since then,
the military LED lights have changed, so have the civilian LED
lights too. And while driving on the highway, I saw a number of
trucks with this new square LED turn signal lamp that was a
replacement for the stock ones that came with the Hummer back in 93.
Well thanks to eBay once again, I found the same LED lights and had
to get them.
2007-05-13, LED Turn Signals Lamps
Only thing is, they are in chrome, and I need to remove them once
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Since the new front turn signal LED lamps are also more
visible from the sides, and brighter, they are much better then the LED
lamps that I had, so much so that now I want to get a new generation of the
tail lights that I have in now shown below.
First I had the stock Hummer lights, then I
checked to the Military lights, then I changed out the military light's lens to a
4 inch round red LED pack by TruckLite, (non-military standard) now have changed then out to the type
below with amber as the turn light.
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I will re-wire the tail lights to have amber turn signal
and red brake lights instead of the just having red brake and turn
signals.
The lights here are by TruckLite |
After making about 5 shapes, to pick from, and help from others
on which design was best, I now have the lights installed and looking the same
on both sides of the rear. The mounts are made from a sheet of ABS plastic
1/8" think, and is 3 layers thick, the outside that you see, the plate
behind the body, and the last layer that holds the LED packs in place and was
made with a router to shape it as needed. I will get some black screws to finish
the outside and will make a plate to protect the rear side of the lights from
the mud and water from the tires.
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Normal state: Parking lights. |
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Brake lights and Emergency flashers |
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Emergency flashers only. |
The following is now just old stuff
After almost having the rears completed, I started on the front.
For now I have replaced the Military lens and the 4 inch round LED light pack
from TruckLite making the mount for the front from 3/16" ABS plastic.
Nothing fancy right now. I am thinking on using the same rear amber turn lights
for the front, but I am not sure it will match the rest of the truck since it
has round headlights. I will think on it a while.
After getting them wired in, the heavy duty flasher that I have
didn't work right and I had to wire in a small parking lamp to each of the front
two turn lamps and I did that under the dash. This also screwed up my
daytime running lights with the relays, so I came up with a new idea and
re-wired the DTRL circuits with some diodes, a relay, and a 2000 MFD capacitor
and it worked out great.
TruckLites where from:
Houston Truck Parts, 1703 N. Wayside,
Houston TX 77020 713-675-5694 (TruckLite)
If you like to get a set of Military LEDs lights for the
Hummer, check:
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Last updated on
Sunday, May 13, 2007
