Well, my dome light lens finally broke. Now before i go out and buy the white/yellowy replacement, is there any clear ones out there? Those white ones really dim the light. And a clear one would make a better look. Anyone have a clear dome lense?

 

Mine was white/yellowy, and like yours, it broke. I never saw in a junkyard anything other than that white/yellowy one. Not on regular cabs, crew cabs, extended cabs.

I gave it up and replaced it with a chrysler overhead console. Pics in gallery.

 

Wow, great job on that console. I dont think i could handle all the wirey mess, so im just gonna stick with the white/yellowy one.

 

I've looked for one too. When I bought my wife a 94 Explorer I was very impressed by the dome light. "My God, I can see!" Seriously. I went to the junkyard and grabbed a blue one to match the interior of my Bronco. I was able to adapt it with some fiddling of the wires and some longer screws. It doesn't mate with the headliner all that well but it's not very noticeable. I can now sit in the truck at night and read a newspaper, even without turing on the maplights. I'm going back to score a tan one for the F150. This time I'll see if I can fit it to the headliner a bit better.

 

Green150.

It wasn't that bad actually, though I really don't mind wiring anywhere near as much as other stuff. In fact, my crewcab is getting a new homemade wiring harness bumper to bumper when its time to do the engine swap.

Thanks for the compliment... the dome light was annoying because its in the center of the crewcab, thus when any of the passengers put on one of the map lights, front or back, I was blinded in the mirror. The Chrysler overhead console thing solves that problem, as the map/reading lights are faced down, and less blinding to me as the driver. Also gave me a surface for additional switches, to drive the roof marker lights I added, as well as the new hi/lo beam driving lights in "super bumper", as well as switches to control the rear power slider I have yet to get around to installing. Its wired, I just have to swap windows.

 

That is going to be one cool truck when you get finished. Especially with that massive red bumper you made. Your going to total anything you happen to rear-end.

 

Thanks Andy... its going much slower than i wanted... but I work for a living and also remodeling the house with my wife... so I have ample distractions.

Twin turbo 500cid 7:1 c/r stroker, with GM EFI is probably the biggest part of the project. I have 95% of the parts I need.

its getting new front fenders, and a much needed radiator support. I ordered the diesel rad support because it house the mounts for the oil cooler, the radiator, and the intercooler since I'll probably be using the PS intercooler I have in the attic with the twin turbo setup.

I'm just about done the new wiring harness, bumper to bumper, which will support the GM EFI I'm going to be using (1227749 ECM) as well as an olds digital cluster, with tach and all the vacuum flourescent do-dads that are pretty. I have a digital t-bird cluster in there now, but it won't talk GM so it has to go, so I made another mounting plate and attached the guts of the GM cluster.

Other mods include digital climate control using the body control module from a Lincoln and a lot of the Lincoln town car bits, had to make an adaptor plate for that. Speaking of which, this truck doesnt' have AC now, but it will when I'm done the engine swap. Also dual batteries, and dual alternators. I already started tracing the 460 bracketry out on cardboard. Adding power windows, power locks, have a tilt column in the attic, and I'll be replacing the red vinyl flooring with red pile carpeting, as well as the seating surfaces will go from red vinyl to red leather. I haven't decided whether to simply cover the seats with leather, using hog rings to put it all together (easy job, just time consuming), or to buy aftermarket captain chairs for the front, cover the back, or just do the whole thing over. The bed will get a roll-on bedliner once I take care of the one minor surface rust from when I brought the 460 block home from the junkyard... I made a panic stop and the engine slid a bit... ooops. I have a set of spare taillights that I seperated into two sections using a hot knife, and waiting for the circuit boards to come back for LED taillights that will fill up the entire taillight enclosure. I'll put the boards in and epoxy the housings back together. Also, I have a power rear slider I got on ebay I have to install eventually, the wirign from the overhead console is there... Thats most of the list... obviously each sub-project will have its own snags and such... like when I go GM EFI and GM cluster, I have to "shove in" the GM fuel tank sensors into both tanks. That will be fun I'm focused on the engine and the ECM code/data for now, so a lot of the other sub-projects are merely in "parts collection" mode for now.


Lots going on... never enough time...

 

Mine broke as well. I never replaced it and it works great. Clear and Bright as day!

 

thats true;its like 50% brighter without that lens. specially if you use one of those 'super white' bulbs. i might as well leave it like that, it is MUCH brighter.