Well guys,
I added cab clearance lights on my 98. 5, and the hardest part was aligning the paper teplate on the roof. But after about 45 minutes of screwin' with it, I got it lined up, and I made the marks for the holes...
Then came the drilling... Drilling that beautiful green roof made me sick...
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Each light needs 3 holes, 2 for screws, and 1 for the wiring.
After you do all of that, and get the lights mounted, start taking apart the interior. Take off both pieces of A-pillar trim, the sunshades, and the overhead console. The headliner must be pulled down
at the front only. It is not necessary to take the whole thing down. So after you get it partially down, run the wiring, and connect it to the lights... Now you are ready for final connections...
This is where I ran into a snag with my 98. 5. In the "directions," it says to put the positve wire into an open cavity on a brown connector that goes to the overhead console. Sounds pretty simple, right? *LOL* It is simple only on paper! The little brown connector is located waaaaay up under the dash, and you need 7 elbows and some extra fingers to get it out... So after dozens of 4-letter words later, I get the connector out, and add the wire to it. I put the connector back together, and presto, the lights [b'don't[/b] come on...
I checked all of my connections at the lights, and everything was ok. The problem was in the lil brown connector way up inside the dash... Turns out some trucks have the procision for cab lights, and others dont... And, well, mine was one of the ones that didn't have it. DC idiots! I wanted to kick some DC engineer butt!
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Anyways... So I had to fold my arm into a pretzel again to get the connector out, and take the wire out of it. To fix the problem, I simply wired the lights into the parking light circuit under the dash on the 72-way connector. I found the black wire with a yellow tracer, stripped off some insulation, and center spliced the cab light wire to it. I taped it up, put it all back together, and the lit up perfect, all 5 of them! Looked like this:
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Good luck guys!
***Needless to say, I ordered the lights from the factory on my 2001. ***
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[This message has been edited by Evan A. Beck (edited 07-07-2000). ]
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