Hey guys, John here, with RealTruck.com.
Today, I want to show you how to install the Anzo Scanning LED tailgate light bar onto
this GMC Sierra.
All right guys, we've got our light bar out of the box and you can see here, it comes
with everything you need to install this onto your truck: your four-way flat plug, which
is really convenient, just plugs right into your trailer connector.
If you have a round-type of trailer connector, there's also an adapter that's available for
this so you can adapt this in and then your white wire, which I'll show you how to install
these here shortly.
Your white wire is for your reverse lights and your red one is for constant 12 volt power.
Some of the really cool things you can see here about this tailgate light bar is that
it is a six-function, scanning light bar which means that when you turn your turn signals
on, they do that little zip thing where they go to the side, which is really cool, and
those are also in amber.
Plus, it also has your reverse light that we were just talking about which is white,
and your brake, your turn signal, your parking lights, all that are all in this light bar.
So, this is a really awesome light bar.
Sixty inches in length, so it's gonna go across the whole back of your truck, look really
cool.
Let's get this on the truck.
All right guys, once we have our area under our tailgate prepped so that we're ready to
install this, what you want to do is make sure you just clean it real good with some
nice soapy water, dry it, and then use something like rubbing alcohol and a cotton rag or something
like that to clean it up.
So, that way, our tape is going to stick really well to the metal to keep this in place.
Now, what we're going to do once we have that cleaned up then is we're going to go ahead
and take our light bar, and we're just gonna set it up in here to get an idea of the location
as to where we're gonna want to put it.
Okay, so one of the things that we can see here, on some vehicles now, what you're gonna
deal with is you're gonna have a lot of space in between here, so you're gonna want to take
some tape strips and mark where this things gonna be sitting in here.
However, as you can see here on this particular vehicle, there's barely even enough room to
get our fingers and our light bar in here.
So, where we set it is gonna be pretty much in the center where it's going to have to
go.
So, the only thing we wanna do then is make sure we have it centered pretty much from
side-to-side as well and it looks like that's gonna be right about where it's supposed to
go, so it look's like everything's gonna fit nicely.
The other thing is to make sure, when you're putting this on, that this plug connector
is on the driver's side of the vehicle.
Otherwise, you're gonna run into some problems.
Your tailgate light bar, when you put the turn signals on, it'll go the other direction.
So, make sure you get that over there.
So, we're ready to go ahead and put this on here now.
All right guys, so, we know where we're gonna set our bar.
So, the next thing we're gonna do then is we're gonna peel the backing off of our double-sided
tape, and it's real easy to do.
Just grab a razor knife or something, or if you're not normally a mechanic and you actually
have fingernails, you can actually get your fingernails underneath this and pull it loose.
But you guys that work on stuff like I do know that we don't have any fingernails left.
So, we grab something to do this.
Real easy simple thing, just peel it off and toss that outta the way.
And then we'll do the same thing on the other ones and we'll get this thing set up in there
where it goes.
Okay guys, we've got our tape off, so now we're gonna put this thing in place.
Make sure it doesn't touch the tape itself on there because we'll keep your fingers off
of that so that way it sticks properly.
When you put this on, guys, don't go and push this thing on real tight just yet because
we wanna make sure we got it lined up and in place because we may have to move it a
little bit and you don't wanna have it pressed down on there where you can't move it.
I'm just kind of lightly pushing on there and flip your tape bars around a little bit
and make sure they're in place and make sure it's all lined up right where you want it
and then, if it is, which this one is, you can go ahead and push this down here.
Make sure that it's gonna stick really good.
It's gonna be right in place where we want it to go.
There you go, that's the hard part.
So, now the easy part is going to be hooking up these wires, which I'm gonna show you how
to do that here in just a second.
All right, so now we're gonna start hooking everything up.
So, the first thing we wanna do is remove our two Phillip's head screws that hold our
tail light in.
Real quick, easy, just unscrew those and then this tail light will just pop out of here.
And then, once we have it out, then we're gonna find our reverse light wire which is
these down here and we need this white wire.
So, what we're gonna do then is I'm going to actually unplug this light.
There we go.
All right.
Then, I'm just gonna set that aside.
Okay guys, once we have our reverse light wire up here, you can see that it's quite
long, so I'm just gonna cut it off here.
So, that way, we don't have quite so much length on it.
Okay guys, I wanna make sure that this makes really good connections, so I'm gonna strip
a little of this wire coating off.
This way, we can get down here to the wire and then just bend it over so that way when
we use our connector we can actually get a good connection on the wire itself.
So, we're gonna put this on here.
Now your light doesn't come with these scotch locks, so you can get these at hardware store,
parts store, places like that will have these available that you can get for doing this
kind of stuff.
Okay, so now then, we're going to put our wire for our light bar up inside here and
then we'll take a pair of pliers and clamp it down here.
There we go.
That should get us a nice good connection on there so that way our reverse light's gonna
work just fine.
Now, what I like to do, especially if you're using something like this on the outside of
the vehicle, is I like to take something like some liquid electrical tape and coat this
real good because that'll help seal this up keep moisture and stuff from getting in there.
We'll lay a rag down in here, just so we don't get this stuff all over the truck and then
we're just gonna take and dab it inside the holes where this wire goes through.
And then just coat this thing really good with this and that will seal that up so that
we don't have to worry about problem with corrosion.
Once that's done, we can put this all back together.
Get this back in the truck.
We'll plug our light back in, and the put it back up in here.
And then we just have to reattach our screws that hold our light in.
And that's really, pretty much how easy it is to hook up the reverse light function of
your scanning light bar.
Okay, so, the next thing we're gonna do then is we're going to take that red power wire
and we're gonna run that up to the front of the truck and attach it to a battery.
Now, what we wanna make sure is, when we're running that underneath the truck that we
run it along the frame, use some zip strips, keep it up outta the way and so that it doesn't
get caught up in anything that's moving under there.
Okay guys, so we're gonna hook up our power wire to our scanning light bar, and what we're
gonna do is we're gonna take some wire that we got from an automotive repair store, and
this is just a sixteen gauge wire.
We're gonna use this, and we're gonna run it along the frame rail of the truck up to
under the hood to the battery.
And we're gonna take some zip strips while we're under there, zip strip it all up nice
and neat, out of the way so that's it's not interfering with any moving parts under the
truck and get that hooked up to the red wire on the harness of our tailgate bar.
So, let's get that done.
And we're just gonna take and put a butt connector on here so that way we can connect it up to
the red wire of our scanning light bar.
Also, one of the things you want to do is pick up some of these butt connectors as well
when you get your wire.
And get the type with the heat shrink because they have a sealer and a glue when you heat
them.
Not only do they shrink down around this to help hold it in but they also have a glue
and a sealer cause this is going to be exposed to the elements, so you wanna make sure it's
sealed really well.
All right, guys, we've got our red wire hooked up, so all we have left to do then is just
plug our four way flat into our four way flat trailer connector for the truck.
Okay, there you go, guys.
That's how quick, simple, and easy it is to install the Anzo scanning LED tail gate light
bar onto your truck.
So remember, until next time, happy motoring.