cab lights / chicken lights
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Fleet Mechanic
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cab lights / chicken lights
Anyone with the cab lights replace them with a LED equivalent?
What did you use, how do you like them and anything you don't like or would want different?
Mine are good, but thinking down the road, less load on electrical system etc..
What did you use, how do you like them and anything you don't like or would want different?
Mine are good, but thinking down the road, less load on electrical system etc..
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Fleet Mechanic
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Anyone have experience with the
marker lights? do you like? I just had a lens pop off one of mine. So I'm just going to replace all of them.
They are little more economical than the trucklite 25760Y posted above. Attempting to find some comparisons.
They are little more economical than the trucklite 25760Y posted above. Attempting to find some comparisons.
Laughing Gas
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Anyone have experience with the grote 45503 marker lights? do you like? I just had a lens pop off one of mine. So I'm just going to replace all of them.
They are little more economical than the trucklite 25760Y posted above. Attempting to find some comparisons.
They are little more economical than the trucklite 25760Y posted above. Attempting to find some comparisons.
TBH, I would have preferred just not having them. But they were installed at the factory, the wiring even still had the Ford logo paper tags, so l replaced em w the Grote units.
Missing and broken lenses, bulbs, housing(s).
All done... and they WORK!
I still have a scar on my forearm from leaning on the hot soldering iron... l wouldn't pull away until l finished what l was doing. My wife happened to witness this bit of insanity and it forever cemented in her mind that l am impervious to pain, like the legend of G Gordon Liddy holding his hand over an open flame.
It ain't so... l just didn't want to lose my place.
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Sharp looking truck. I'm in agreement, I can take them or leave them, my 79 doesn't have them, the 86 does. Another nickel dime job.
How well has the plastic lens held up? I ordered them, they should look better than whats on there.
How well has the plastic lens held up? I ordered them, they should look better than whats on there.
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Laughing Gas
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l never had any issues with the lenses cracking or leaking though, not in the years l had it. That includes the sorry years that it spent enduring the indignity of sitting outside in the weather w no motor. And they definitely DID improve the appearance... broken lights and lenses make just about anything look like abandoned junk. Sometimes the nickels and dimes pay off.
My latest, an 85 F150, doesn't have the chicken lights. My 73 F250 had em... l always thought they were reserved for 1T-up trucks, but maybe that distinction came later.
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