How you guys doing? Thanks for watching. This George at Wicked Warnings here in our
little how-to section. Got a newer Chevrolet pickup, got lights like this, want to put a
few strobe lights in it. Now this is the nicer LED version. This was on a 2500 HD but
these lights go across a couple different trim lines of course, but they all have halogen reverse,
so our Auto Flasher module doesn't work very well without changing the bulbs. We can use our Auto
Flasher module if you want to change the bulbs to LED but that won't really get you amber unless
you changed your reverse lights to amber. So we are going to install our LED hideaway in these lights
and we're going to do it right with those holes. Now
when you drill these holes, the first thing I did was there was a small rib right here
and I smoothed it out right here. So we smoothed it out to create a flatter surface for the light.
You could see some of my scribbles here. We want to leave at least three eighths down this line here
for the edge of the bed. The bottom of the reverse reflector housing, you can see, is basically in line
with this relief. Now this relief here is for the bed, the tailgate hold down bolt, so you can't go
anywhere in there. We don't want to go down below it really either because we're out of the reverse
lens. So that is where we drill them and then here's the other side for you. Same reference, did some marks.
As you can see, we are basically right on the bottom of that with our one inch hole. Our one
inch hole is going to fit an LED hideaway in there and what we want to do is we want to warm up this
wire a little bit with a hair dryer or a heat gun, and we want to gently persuade it to be nice and
flat like that. We want to bring that back this way and that way when we reinstall the light,
that wire is nice and tucked in there like that. Okay, and like I say, a heat gun is nice to persuade
that wire, definitely kind of softens it up and makes it a little bit more pliable, but that is
right there where we're going to be drilling the LED and I'm going to do it probably on the
non-LED. This is an LED brake and tail with the, like I say, they all have the incandescent reverse.
So darn it- if you got a new Chevy with lights like that, hopefully this was helpful. Check
the link in the description for our two LED hideaways. I would go myself with a low dome.
You may, you might be able to squeeze a high dome in there, but I believe that's gonna get pretty
close to your reverse bulb, especially if you went with an aftermarket large reverse bulb.
You might be able to make it fit. I'm not, see it's right there, so I'd say a low dome would
probably be the way to go. So thanks again for watching Wicked Warnings. We're your number one
source for construction and emergency safety and strobe lighting equipment and a few how-to
videos like I'm trying to do here. So make sure you seal this up a little bit with a little
RTV or the provided foam gasket as well, and just take a 16th inch drill bit and pre-drill your
holes here for your screws. Makes it a whole lot easier and again, that's a one inch hole through
there. I always take the light, if you're going to drill it, and hold it completely upside down
kind of on the workbench like that and drill from the bottom up with a shop vac right handy.
It really is nice to have two people and that way, all the shavings fall straight down,
shop vac everything out of there real quick, and you won't end up with a light full of garbage
down the bottom like you see on a couple of trucks once in a while, especially headlights.
So thanks again for watching Wicked Warnings. Pardon the shaky camera, had to do this one in my hand.
How you doing everybody? Just a little follow up to the hideaway install on these tails. As you can
see now, we've got that light installed. I chose to just RTV, kind of glue it in there and let
it dry overnight and that way you can forego the screws if you get a good seal on the RTV
and let it dry all night long. I've folded this back. I heated it with a heat gun. I got it nice
and flat but the one thing we did have to do was we added a little clearance right here and
we can do that with a grinder, an air grinder, or a dremel or anything like that,
and this is a completely hidden modification. The lens actually comes all
the way to this edge, here to this far edge, so you don't see any of this but it was needed
for the hideaway install. It was a little too close for my comfort, so I just put that small
relief in right there. The other trick that I did was I trimmed the studs here down just a
little bit. I just took the tip of them off because that's kind of unneeded and it gave me a little
bit more working room to insert that tail light without rubbing or risking any damage to this.
You can see here, it was very easy to mark that. I just helped position the tail light and marked
kind of right there where the hideaway was just a little bit close. Now the taillight's not in
yet but I'm just showing you here the reference and that that little bit of clearance
helps that wire pass through right there without rubbing real hard or getting in the way anything and then once
the tail light's totally installed, as you can see, you really- I mean you could peek in the corner
and kind of maybe see just the tiniest bit, but it doesn't show up at all. So of course,
touch-up paint, make sure you paint that edge. Let it dry so you don't have any issues but
that is how we do the hideaways here in this particular new Silverado tail light.