71-72 A-body LED Tailights and parkinglights

[GSX1]

nice

[bignastyGS]

I'm gonna be the stick in the mud...I don't care for the look. The Mustang has way better looking lights for the sequential lights. The Buick's look Ricer to me...But, I appreciate the effort and it's your cars and I have no say in it at all.. This coming from a guy who has a Chevelle hood on his Buick...lol

[Lee Bacon]

Yea so what the heck Pat ( mister chevy hood) Chris it look's good, don't pay any attention to mister ricer hood !!!!!!!!!!!! Show us some day time video...........

[bignastyGS]

lol Damn and I have this funky front and rear spoiler on my ghetto racer... And 2 fully length 3 inch fart pipes....

[hcs2001]

Okay, I'm done for the night. Finished splicing extra wires onto the passenger side pigtail harness and ran both LED pigtails into the trunk - tomorrow will splice them into the main harness.

I included a few pics - showing the lip which pushed the LED board out, and then the LED board sitting flush after I cut the lip off.

Thats strange. Mine went into place without any trimming involved. You sure you didnt install them upside down? That would account for them not fitting into the housing properly. Just a thought.

[Lee Bacon]

Ive not got mine yet but my 72 is just like Chris' The other set of housings I have you do not have to trim. And That Why I Wanted to send in this set of NOS 72 housing's mmmmmmmmmmmm (there is a diff)

[V8Sky]

I had each board on the correct side but the passenger side I flipped accidentally and corrected once I plugged it in. The driver's side was correct on the first try and still bumped on the lip. Not sure I could have played around with the fitment more but perhaps someone else installing them can.

[Nothingface5384]

so it's sounding like us 72 guys have to dlo a lil trimmin aye?
no big deal i guess

[Nothingface5384]

so it's sounding like us 72 guys have to dlo a lil trimmin aye?
no big deal i guess

[V8Sky]

so it's sounding like us 72 guys have to dlo a lil trimmin aye?
no big deal i guess

>>I was wondering if anyone on the board could confirm if the 1970-71 taillight housings even have a lip?

[StageTwo]

I installed them on my '72 last night (these lights are cool!). There was plenty of room between the lip and the board on my car. If flipped backwards, the lip would have been in the way.

[V8Sky]

Glad to know it was only my mistake LOL!

[Racerx88]

The boards are marked left and right on the back side. Is it possible you might have gotten them switched?

[V8Sky]

I had the drivers and passengers on their correct side but realized when I plugged in the power that the passenger side was upside down when I did my original test fitting. Thinking back now I think that I just went with the passenger side when making the decision to trim the lips. Glad no one else has to!

[StageTwo]

I almost snipped the lips on my housings to start with, but decided to wire up the boards for a test run first because I wasn't sure which direction they blinked. Maybe I just got lucky when I didn't have to remove them. I can't remember if my '71's housings had the lips or not.

The hardest part for me was the initial removal of the lenses. The rubber bumper pieces make clearance difficult on a '72. Also, I had to add my own little piece of yellow wire for the right side board to reach where I cut into the wiring harness inside the trunk on the driver's side. Other than that, it was pretty straight forward and the results are just cool.

I made this little video for my Facebook friends.

[cstanley-gs]

I almost snipped the lips on my housings to start with, but decided to wire up the boards for a test run first because I wasn't sure which direction they blinked. Maybe I just got lucky when I didn't have to remove them. I can't remember if my '71's housings had the lips or not.

The hardest part for me was the initial removal of the lenses. The rubber bumper pieces make clearance difficult on a '72. Also, I had to add my own little piece of yellow wire for the right side board to reach where I cut into the wiring harness inside the trunk on the driver's side. Other than that, it was pretty straight forward and the results are just cool.

I made this little video for my Facebook friends.

That is just awesome... I need to get these

[Racerx88]

I guess now I need to post a video of my FRONT LED's to get Spaghetti Engineering to start on those, huh?

[StageTwo]

I guess now I need to post a video of my FRONT LED's to get Spaghetti Engineering to start on those, huh?

LOL! Yeah, your ingenuity started the whole thing - thanks!

To be honest, I'm not sure front LEDs are for me. Not unless they are directional too, but that might be borderline tacky with the relatively narrow lenses up front. But, I'd like to see someone post a video of that. So, feel free, Dean.

[V8Sky]

[QUOTE=StageTwo;1999422]I almost snipped the lips on my housings to start with, but decided to wire up the boards for a test run first because I wasn't sure which direction they blinked. Maybe I just got lucky when I didn't have to remove them. I can't remember if my '71's housings had the lips or not.

The hardest part for me was the initial removal of the lenses. The rubber bumper pieces make clearance difficult on a '72. Also, I had to add my own little piece of yellow wire for the right side board to reach where I cut into the wiring harness inside the trunk on the driver's side. Other than that, it was pretty straight forward and the results are just cool.

I made this little video for my Facebook friends.

>>Great job! I very carefully slid in a screwdriver behind one side of the lens and pushed and pulled on the other side to get the piece out. Great comparison on the video

[Racerx88]

The best way I've found to get those pesky lenses out when they're stuck is like this:
1. Remove the screws. (duh)
2. Using a small phillips head screw driver that fits the screw holes, stick the screw driver in the hole, and wiggle the whole lens back and forth.

With a little pressure, the lens should come loose without taking the chance of breaking the outer edges.

[gsla72]

Just got mine put in. Wow did that take a lot longer than I figured it would. Did anybody else have any problems with the instructions not matching up with the wires in the car?

[V8Sky]

Hi Logan,
What issue did you have with the wires? All the colors mentioned in the instructions matched up with my Buick's wires. The only wiring issue I had was that I forgot to wire in the license plate plate which I did afterwards.

[gsla72]

The wires running to my side marker lights were a different color than what they had listed. When I had them wired the way they wanted them, they would signal, but not stay on with the parking lights. I got it figured out, but I wasn't sure if anybody else had anything similar happen.

[hwprouty]

I almost snipped the lips on my housings to start with, but decided to wire up the boards for a test run first because I wasn't sure which direction they blinked. Maybe I just got lucky when I didn't have to remove them. I can't remember if my '71's housings had the lips or not.

The hardest part for me was the initial removal of the lenses. The rubber bumper pieces make clearance difficult on a '72. Also, I had to add my own little piece of yellow wire for the right side board to reach where I cut into the wiring harness inside the trunk on the driver's side. Other than that, it was pretty straight forward and the results are just cool.

I made this little video for my Facebook friends.

That looks awesome BJ! How's Moses Lake these days?

[V8Sky]

The wires running to my side marker lights were a different color than what they had listed. When I had them wired the way they wanted them, they would signal, but not stay on with the parking lights. I got it figured out, but I wasn't sure if anybody else had anything similar happen.

>>My side marker lights had brown wiring like listed in the instructions - I wound up using a three way connector though to include the side marker lights wiring, license plate wiring, and the LED board wiring all together.