Needforspeed368
Jan 28 2006, 04:29pm
How-To: Make the useless side-marker light function as a turn-signal
This How-To is for a Generation 4, however this can be performed on any Ranger using the Daniel Stern Lighting Tech guide:
Daniel Stern's Flashing Sidemarker Lamp Tech (http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/markerflash/markerflash.html)
Tools Needed:
#2 Phillips Screwdriver
Wire cutter/stripper
Soldering Iron and Solder, or a 4 crimp on wire-taps
Electrical Tape and/or shrink wrap
Step One:
Remove your Turn Signal by removing the two screws located at the bottom. There is a black trim piece of plastic covering the turn-signal tabs that these screws go through. Push this straight down to expose the tabs so you can pull the turn signal off. The signal is also held on by a clip at the top, so apply even pressure top to bottom and it will unclip.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b242/Needforspeed3685/Truck%20Tech/Blinkermod1.jpg
Step Two:
(You may have to cut back the wire loom to expose enough of the wires from both of the following bulbs.)
Cut the wires for your side marker light about 4-6 inches from the light-bulb housing. (a black and a brown wire) Wrap the ends that normally supply this bulb electricity with electrical tape and tuck them behind the header panel, making sure no wire is exposed to cause a short.
Cut the brown and green wire from the outer turn signal bulb as far away from the housing as possible.
Strip all the wires, for a total of 6 bare wires. (two from the side marker, 2 from the turn signal bulb-housing, and two which supply the turn signal electricity.)
Solder together all three brown wires from both lights. Secure with heat-shrink or electrical tape and ensure no wire or solder is exposed.
Solder together the two green wires with the black wire of the side marker. Secure with heat-shrink or electrical tape and ensure no wire or solder is exposed.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b242/Needforspeed3685/Truck%20Tech/Blinkermod2.jpg
Put the turn signal back on and you now have a functioning side-marker light!
With this modification, you will have the following results:
Headlights/Parking lights ON - turn signal flashes alternately with side marker light.
Headlights/Parking lights OFF - Turn signal and side marker flash together.
This How-To is for a Generation 4, however this can be performed on any Ranger using the Daniel Stern Lighting Tech guide:
Daniel Stern's Flashing Sidemarker Lamp Tech (http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/markerflash/markerflash.html)
Tools Needed:
#2 Phillips Screwdriver
Wire cutter/stripper
Soldering Iron and Solder, or a 4 crimp on wire-taps
Electrical Tape and/or shrink wrap
Step One:
Remove your Turn Signal by removing the two screws located at the bottom. There is a black trim piece of plastic covering the turn-signal tabs that these screws go through. Push this straight down to expose the tabs so you can pull the turn signal off. The signal is also held on by a clip at the top, so apply even pressure top to bottom and it will unclip.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b242/Needforspeed3685/Truck%20Tech/Blinkermod1.jpg
Step Two:
(You may have to cut back the wire loom to expose enough of the wires from both of the following bulbs.)
Cut the wires for your side marker light about 4-6 inches from the light-bulb housing. (a black and a brown wire) Wrap the ends that normally supply this bulb electricity with electrical tape and tuck them behind the header panel, making sure no wire is exposed to cause a short.
Cut the brown and green wire from the outer turn signal bulb as far away from the housing as possible.
Strip all the wires, for a total of 6 bare wires. (two from the side marker, 2 from the turn signal bulb-housing, and two which supply the turn signal electricity.)
Solder together all three brown wires from both lights. Secure with heat-shrink or electrical tape and ensure no wire or solder is exposed.
Solder together the two green wires with the black wire of the side marker. Secure with heat-shrink or electrical tape and ensure no wire or solder is exposed.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b242/Needforspeed3685/Truck%20Tech/Blinkermod2.jpg
Put the turn signal back on and you now have a functioning side-marker light!
With this modification, you will have the following results:
Headlights/Parking lights ON - turn signal flashes alternately with side marker light.
Headlights/Parking lights OFF - Turn signal and side marker flash together.