In a concerted effort to keep things together. I am moving this in here as well for showing efforts and to add to.

I finally was doing something else tonight and I wanted to take some fresh pics of my under hood light efforts. Almost 3 years old, no issues with heat, no 2-sided tape concerns, it just works.

Here is from about 20 ft or so away, note the amount of shadow light surrounding the front of the truck area.


From about 6 ft away


3ft above the engine or so..



I modded the factory mercury switch, kept the waterproof secondary switch for the fact of the light is so bright that while off roading at night. The mercury switch bounces around and makes temporary contact and from inside the wheel liners, it looks like I have a mini-lighting storm going on under the hood. The WP switch also doubles as a switch to kill power to the light during the day when the light is unnecessary as the OEM one would require you to literally unplug it in order to do the same.. wasn't an option for me. All wiring neatly tucked and routed to eliminate any wire chaffing issues, shorts, etc.. 

All that was done to the factory Mercury switch was taking apart the two halves, soldering directly onto the internal contact rails for connections on the bulb side of things where the 921 bulb resided previously. Pretty straight forward still protected by the factory fusing too.


Also added another same light onto the glass window of the topper, only slightly smaller for the benefit of turning the tailgate into a work surface area for trail cooking at night, making some coffee or fishing in the cooler for a cold Kilt Lifter beer! Despite thoughts of wanting ALL of the light I could need or have, I decided to take it down a small notch from 44" to 28" for the rear light.

With the future addition of an 8pc rock light kit will assist in the under-illumination from within the front wheel wells for the lower portion of the engine bay and somewhat underneath, as well rear wheel wells, front and aft of the spare tire storage. This should give me all the additional illumination from under the truck should I need it. If not, I have several Streamlight flashlights that are USB rechargeable with extra batteries..

Just a refresh on an previous mod.

Last edited on Wed Apr 25th, 2018 03:50 am by Undrstm8ed