greatly appreciated, thanks

 

Post up if you find anything with the blue leds. Thats what i want to do to my interior lights. Thanx

 

Are these LEDs the soft white/blue leds? or are they like a brilliant white? maybe some late night pics would be cool

 

The cool white LED's are a bright white - pretty close to the 6000K HID Color. I was trying to get rid of the "yellow" tint the filament bulbs gave everything. I'll try to get some pics and post.

 

Night Pics-1

I'm not the best photographer but hopefully these will give you an idea - Interior

 

Night Trunk Pic

Here is the trunk - it came out pretty good....

The two bulnbs were purchased from Superbright LED's.

The dual underhood lights - I popped the cover off of the underhood light to show the LED panel. I needed to rivet and solder some small copper contacts from an old flourescent tube fixture onto the
existing hood light contacts to rotate the loop contacts 90 degrees
so I could use this particular LED panel. (Best solution I could find)
($9.99 ea)
They came from:
EBAY Store: http://stores.ebay.com/wardenjp2002

Current Listing:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1pc-...tem2ea98733f3QQitemZ200412705779QQptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

 

Here is the trunk - it came out pretty good....

The two bulnbs were purchased from Superbright LED's.

The dual underhood lights - I popped the cover off of the underhood light to show the LED panel. I needed to rivet and solder some small copper contacts from an old flourescent tube fixture onto the
existing hood light contacts to rotate the loop contacts 90 degrees
so I could use this particular LED panel. (Best solution I could find)
($9.99 ea)
They came from:
EBAY Store: http://stores.ebay.com/wardenjp2002

Current Listing:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1pc-...tem2ea98733f3QQitemZ200412705779QQptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

What's the red thing in the trunk. Looks like one of those emergency reflector triangles I haven't seen in years.

 

Maybe you should go with dimmer lights in that trunk.

Thanks for the write up.

 

thanks for the post!!

but can you repost the bulb numbers for the vanity mirrors? I couldn't find it

 

The ones for the vanity mirror were hard to find:
I do not have a P/N for them - (Not through superbright)
I finally located at:
EBAY Store: http://stores.ebay.com/wardenjp2002

Link to current auction (White):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1pc-...tem2c520bf169QQitemZ190355075433QQptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

These are availabel in white or blue!

I have made multiple purchases from this seller - great quality and pricing - Only issue is: plan on 2+ weeks for shipping - they come Post out of Hong Kong.

Also on these you'll need to turn the light chips facing away from you to the side or they will be TOO GLARING at night. I wish they had them with only 2 chips and not 3.

Shipping policy (I think is something like 1.80 for the first auction and then$1.00 for each additional auction when purchased together) total price from him was lower than most anyone else I have found for the same stuff.

 

wow, that looks nice.. im loving that truck and under hood.

 

hey now,

todd,

thanks for doing all the research i used it to make a nice and easy purchase.

do you plan on making a list for the exterior?

thanks again,

dave

 

Exterior LED's - NOT FOR ME

Sorry - NO
In researching LED bulbs in general I have not found drop in ones for the exterior that I thought would perform well and be reasonably priced. (Some might argue that the interior solution I arrived at didn't meet some of that criteria either)

What I have done as far as exterior lighting goes:
I have installed the Silvania Silver Star 2357 "clear/amber" bulbs in the front turn signal / running light position, this with Clear Image "standard" clear corner lenses gets rid of the amber reflectors and the amber tint to the reflectors in front. I have 6000K HID's with Halogen Halogen High.
(Worthless for high beams) but years ago I installed flash-to-pass. and they works great for "that" during the day.

For the taillights I chose some red glass regualr bulbs from:

http://autolumination.com/1156_1157.htm

scroll WAY DOWN......

1157 Cherry Red Xenon Natural Glass - $2.49 ea

These in the tail lights are an AWSOME RED - your stock ones will look orange next to these, TRY IT!

I did install one "red" LED 194 in each of the OB Tail Light Assemblies:

(From superbright led)
WLED-x5
1 High Flux LED & 4 x 3mm Radially Mounted LEDs, 220 degree beam

Of all the ones I tried these gave the best overall performance in that position.

Back to autoillumination.com - (They have a TON of stuff)
[FWIW I tried the Chrome 1157's for a less expensive option to loose the amber tint to the front turn signals and the "on" "AMBER"
is much deeper and darker than the #74 bulb in the corner lens - the color differences looked funny to me.
If you could get a matching #74 bulb it would work but they don't make them - I have thought about modifying the corners to use a 194 bulb and then use them. - It would be much cheaper than the$32.00 for the silver stars - (not got past the idea stage at this point)]

Perhaps some options think about.

Regards,

 

2ea 3cell #74's for the mirror reading lights... how did you use the # 74's?? I thought the were like mini tube lights. Thats all I have left to do! Thanks in advance.

Edit... Ahhh those were for the map lights on the rearview... where did you get the fuse bulbs from?

 

how the *** do you change the rear opera lights? i have the LED's ready to go in but i dont wanna break the apparatus.

 

Visor / Vanity Mirror LED's

See Reply #10 this thread..........
copied below:


Not sure the propoer name but I also call them "fuse lights"
But that means I'm old enough to remember when car fuses looked like this........

The ones for the vanity mirror were hard to find:
I do not have a P/N for them - (Not through superbright)
I finally located at:
EBAY Store: http://stores.ebay.com/wardenjp2002

Link to current auction (White):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1pc-3...Q5fAccessories

These are availabel in white or blue!

......you'll need to turn the light chips facing away from you to the side or they will be TOO GLARING at night. I wish they had them with only 2 chips and not 3.

 

Rear seat reading (opera) lights - how to?

I have a couple of spare assemblies - I'll try to walk you through it.
I have seen a few of these all busted up from not being "gentle"

Remove screw through coat hook and gently pop assembly down from roof. Unhook wiring connector (gently pry down lock tab on bottom with fingernail or small flat blade screwdriver.

Take the assembly go inside wheree it is warm / cool depending on where your at. somewhere you can sit down comfortably and work on the assembly.

You'll just need a small flat blade (slotted) jeweler’s screwdriver
and a small pair of needle nose pliers.

Use the small screwdriver and gently pry (the black piece) away from the gray plastic tab - you can easily do this through the square on the lens side (where the coat hook was removed from)
- Do this while lifting the black piece away from the gray trim bezel
It "tilts in / out from the side by the switch.

With the black piece separated
Gently slide the electrical connector off the holder (pull apart)
On the side opposite the switch you will see two small tabs (pointy) that retain that side of the lower housing to the upper housing: while gently pulling apart (squeezing lower bezel between thumb and forefinger in left hand place push on the tabs toward the center of the housing and it should pop apart.

On the side with the switch press the wide tab inboard with the screwdriver tip and the light housing will fall out of the cover.

Pull the light socket out the back of the housing and discard bulb.

From behind gently pry the clear lens tabs inboard to get the light lens off the light assembly.

Then place socket in back of light assembly and with tiny needle nose pliers gently install the LED bulb from the front into the bulb socket - won't fit in from the back like glass bulb and TEST IN CAR

MOST LED"S are polarity sensitive so install LED in socket and hook up to car to test PRIOR to reassembling everything - or this could all just be for practice… (I won't say how I know this )
If it does not illuminate - remove and turn LED 180 degress and reinstall.

If all OK carefully reassemble and reinstall

 

Diggin the dual trunk and hood lights. Did you just simply find spares and just splice them together? Another question. I'm having a hell of a time finding led replacements for the pass side visor with the vanity mirror.

 

Correct on the hood and trunk lights - I'm sure they are not available new any longer - have to look in the salvage yards. For the hood you will also need to flip the mercury switch over becase it is mounted the other way.

Look at post 16 in this thread for info on the vanity / visor lights.

 

No dice on the link, doesn't work. I'm sure I can find em on ebay or something.

 

Thanks for the write up Todd

 

Vanity Mirror LED Link

Sorry - Not sure what happened?

For the visor / vanity mirror bulb try this one:


http://stores.ebay.com/warden-jp2002__W0QQ_sidZ70019414?_nkw=vanity

If that doesn't work, go the ebay store:

http://stores.ebay.com/warden-jp2002

Search "Vanity"

Or do a global search for "Vanity LED"

You will find a number of vendors ranging from $13.99 to $16.99 for a pair. They are under $8.00 a pair from the above store.

There was one guy that had a single SMD vanity bulb for $9.00 each!
I think these might actually be a bit better because with the 3 SMD's they are so bright you need to turn them sideways so they are not TOO BRIGHT!

 

Nice post, I did a complete swap (interior and exterior) on my SS two years ago, and all my posts about it got lost. Good to see more people are doing it. I also appreciate the link for the vanity bulbs, I already have them in my SS but they were more expensive from my source so I didn't bother for my wagon, now I ordered two for the wagon cause they're dirt cheap on eBay. The exterior bulbs were a bit of a headache to troubleshoot the flasher issues, but ultimately worth doing, did it on both cars. If you decide to go that route you can ask any questions if you need help. With the right bulbs, it's brighter than stock and the flash makes the car look more modern. I also love the switchback LEDs I have on my SS so the running light matches the HIDs then is amber for the turn.

 

Red thing?

91SS - I had to go back & look at the picture.....

That's my 1/2 drive Snap-On TQ Wrench (Case).

I do remember the boxes with the fold up trianlges in them.

 

sweet dude thanks. time to get that extra trunk light and hood light.

 

Hey Todd, Great Post! I definatly would wanna do the dual trunk and under hood light mod, bad ass!

 

I noticed that you didn't list a bulb to replace the T1 incandescent bulb that's used to illuminate the headlight switch. That bulb is on all the time when the car is running so it tends to burn out frequently. I recently found 12v LED replacements on the superbrightleds.com web site that look like they could work nicely. Here are the details:

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/index.cgi?action=DispPage&Page2Disp=/specs/NEO.htm

The one you want is the NEO3-x. Both standard and high power lamps are available in several different colors, and you get the socket, too! I just ordered one of each in white 'cause it's time to replace a burned out bulb again and I'd like to try them both.

 

I got the same bulb, and I'm not pleased with the light pattern. The spread with the high powered bulb is not wide enough, so it fails to illuminate many of the areas covered by the stock bulb.