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Finally found the last piece of the puzzle for my rear lighting. My goals have been to have increased reverse lighting triggered by selecting reverse, chase lighting tied into an Aux switch, a quality third brake light with the wobbly, rattling OEM stalk/light gone. Increased visibility would be a plus.
I started with a pair of Diode Dynamics S2 lights mounted on a Fast Intentions spare tire mount using a Diode Dynamics pig tail harness. This provide reverse and chase lighting, as well as red back lighting was tied into the running light circuit. Nice and clean, but I do have to undo two plugs at the spare and remove two bolts on the Fast Intentions bracket to remove the spare. Not ideal, but I keep a Torx security bit taped onto a 6” extension in the Raptor tool kit, so it’s a quick and easy process now.
A week ago I read a post by “Buff” on 6G exalting the installation of a Morimoto 5 Stop brake light on his Fast Intentions bracket. The light is waterproof, billet aluminum case, has 5 quality LEDs and runs a 400 lumen circuit for running lights and a 800 lumen for brake lights. It’s intended for motorcycles, but with a couple holes drilled in their bracket it fits perfectly on the FI bracket and doesn’t interfere with the bolt removal. All for <$60 and free delivery from Morimoto via Amazon.
The 400 lumen light is bright, perhaps too bright for running lamps but easy to blind that circuit after further review.
Removal of the 3rd brake light stalk was easy (after getting my 38”x13.5 spare off the back, which is never easy!) removing four Torx bolts. Once it’s free there are 9(?) smaller Torx to remove to open the stalk to unplug the harness. Be careful, there is a metal reinforcement plate that is loose at this point that could fall if you’re not expecting it. The harness has a clip or two, but pulls out of the stalk easily. Once unplugged and unclipped the brake light and stalk are free of the vehicle.
After that test fit your bracket with lights installed to get a sense of where to sever the OEM harness. I used weather pack 3 lead connector to connect the light to the severed OEM harness. The Morimoto install instructions denote the ground, 400 and 800 wiring colors. Quick multimeter check of OEM cable will identify that side with running lights on. Zip tied the Brake cable to one side of my chase light harness, replaced the spare (ugh!) and everything has worked like a charm. And visibility of the brake light (behind the 38”) and visibility out the back are improved. All other goals achieved…
Well now I’m thinking I want to strobe my chase light, always something. Something to figger out.
With running lights on. It would be nice to disable light #2 and #4 in running light circuit. It would dim it down a bit and give it the Raptor 3 light treatment.
I started with a pair of Diode Dynamics S2 lights mounted on a Fast Intentions spare tire mount using a Diode Dynamics pig tail harness. This provide reverse and chase lighting, as well as red back lighting was tied into the running light circuit. Nice and clean, but I do have to undo two plugs at the spare and remove two bolts on the Fast Intentions bracket to remove the spare. Not ideal, but I keep a Torx security bit taped onto a 6” extension in the Raptor tool kit, so it’s a quick and easy process now.
A week ago I read a post by “Buff” on 6G exalting the installation of a Morimoto 5 Stop brake light on his Fast Intentions bracket. The light is waterproof, billet aluminum case, has 5 quality LEDs and runs a 400 lumen circuit for running lights and a 800 lumen for brake lights. It’s intended for motorcycles, but with a couple holes drilled in their bracket it fits perfectly on the FI bracket and doesn’t interfere with the bolt removal. All for <$60 and free delivery from Morimoto via Amazon.
The 400 lumen light is bright, perhaps too bright for running lamps but easy to blind that circuit after further review.
Removal of the 3rd brake light stalk was easy (after getting my 38”x13.5 spare off the back, which is never easy!) removing four Torx bolts. Once it’s free there are 9(?) smaller Torx to remove to open the stalk to unplug the harness. Be careful, there is a metal reinforcement plate that is loose at this point that could fall if you’re not expecting it. The harness has a clip or two, but pulls out of the stalk easily. Once unplugged and unclipped the brake light and stalk are free of the vehicle.
After that test fit your bracket with lights installed to get a sense of where to sever the OEM harness. I used weather pack 3 lead connector to connect the light to the severed OEM harness. The Morimoto install instructions denote the ground, 400 and 800 wiring colors. Quick multimeter check of OEM cable will identify that side with running lights on. Zip tied the Brake cable to one side of my chase light harness, replaced the spare (ugh!) and everything has worked like a charm. And visibility of the brake light (behind the 38”) and visibility out the back are improved. All other goals achieved…
Well now I’m thinking I want to strobe my chase light, always something. Something to figger out.
With running lights on. It would be nice to disable light #2 and #4 in running light circuit. It would dim it down a bit and give it the Raptor 3 light treatment.
