Hi, I'm Todd Henderson.
Today, I wanna show you how to install the 60-inch blade Putco LED tail light bar on
this full-size pickup truck.
Now this is an F-150 but the installs gonna be the same on just about every truck.
Let's go ahead and get started.
All right, now before we do the installation, we're gonna survey the situation, make sure
that we got a good spot to install this bar.
Now, what we're looking for here, we got a nice flat surface.
If there were any kind of obstructions in the way, we would use these standoffs and
actually attach the light bar to the standoffs and then stick the standoffs to the surface.
That way, it clears any obstructions.
We've got a nice flat surface.
We're not going to use standoffs.
Another thing we wanna make sure that you put into place that's visible from cars coming
behind you and it is not going to block the operation of the tailgate.
So, we've got a nice spot down the very bottom.
Next, we're gonna go and take off the tailgate and install the light bar.
Now, this truck has a backup camera, so what I did is I went ahead and got underneath the
truck, disconnected the harness from that backup camera.
That way, when we take off the tailgate, we just pull it right through the hole.
Next, I'm gonna drop the tailgate, hold it at a little bit of an angle and take a flathead
screwdriver and that's how this comes off.
Do the same thing on the other side.
All right, so what you notice is on the passenger side where the tailgate attached to the bed,
you're gonna have a tab and a slot.
You wanna raise the tailgate to where the tab lines up to the slot so you can draw the
tailgate out of that bracket.
Now, I do recommend having a second set of hands on the other side just to keep it nice
and steady.
You don't wanna scratch anything.
And as you pull it out, remember you've also got a backup camera where the harness goes
through.
You wanna gently pull that out as well.
Now we're gonna clean off the surface of the bed of the truck where the light bar is going
to attach with at least 90% isopropyl rubbing alcohol.
Now we're also gonna go ahead and clean off the back of the plastic on the light bar with
isopropyl alcohol.
All right, now we're gonna go ahead and apply some adhesive promoter.
Now, at this point, if we were gonna be using the standoffs, we could actually apply the
adhesive promoter to the back of the standoff.
But we're not going to be using the standoffs, we're gonna apply the adhesive promoter to
the back of the light bar itself.
Now, do not use adhesive promoter on a painted surface.
The 3M tape is designed to stick to the painted surface.
When you go to plastic, that's when you use the adhesive promoter.
So what we're gonna do is open up the bag.
You can use gloves for this if you like.
And we wanna let that dry.
All right, now we're gonna place the 3M tape on the back of the light bar.
We're gonna evenly space that to where we get good adhesion and make sure we place that
light bar with the 3M tape on the spot where it's not gonna have a bad bond.
Okay now, before we attach this light bar, this particular light bar, you wanna make
sure that the harness is coming out on the driver side.
I'll go ahead and release the tape protector from the 3M tape.
Now we're gonna go ahead and hold it up very carefully, make sure it's nice and centered
and stick it into place.
Once we got that in place, we're gonna bear down on the areas where we have the adhesive.
Make sure we have a nice contact.
Okay now, all we have to do at this point, we can actually just drop this down in between
the bumper and the bed, zip tie everything into place, run this cable up through and
then plug it into your four pin and then this just wires into your reverse light.
And that's all it really has to be done.
We're gonna make a little bit cleaner install.
So what we're gonna do is we first gonna pop this out to reach underneath.
There is a couple of pins and you squeeze together, these pins right here.
When you squeeze these together, the whole thing just comes right through.
So we're gonna bring this in like so.
Now, we're gonna cut back the insulation so we have better access to these wires and I'll
show you which wires go where.
Okay so, we got all these harnesses, we'll never gonna need all of it.
So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and pull this through.
All right, and all this back behind will end up tying that off later.
What we're gonna do is be on the fuse, we're gonna use just a little bit of this wire here.
We're gonna cut this and splice this in.
Okay, so here's our trailer hitch wires and here's our wires for the light bar.
Now, most of these are gonna go exactly to the same colors they match up to, so brown
to brown, yellow to yellow, green will go to green.
But then our black wire will go to our white wire.
And this white wire here will actually go to the center pin which is a gray wire.
Okay, so now I've got my white wire from the harness coming down into my splice connector,
then I've got the gray wire going through.
Now take and squeeze down on the connector and that cuts into the wires and makes connection
between both of them and clip that together.
All right, now we're gonna go ahead and connect the green wires.
And now, I'm gonna connect the brown.
Next for the yellow.
And lastly, I'm gonna connect the black wire from the light bar harness to the white wire
in the trailer pin harness.
All right, now we're gonna go ahead and tape up all of our connections.
Okay, now that we've got this all taped up, before we insert everything back in place,
we're gonna go ahead and test the operation of the light bar.
All right, check the left turn signal, right turn signal, hazard lights, brakes and reverse.
So now, we're gonna go ahead and fit these wires back through.
Anything back behind the bumper that's loose, we're gonna go ahead and zip tie in place
to make sure it's nice and secure and then snap this back in place.
Then we can go ahead and reattach the tailgate and re-hook up the backup camera.
Well, that concludes the installation.
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