Ziploc bands n marker are your friend n a buffer n scratch remover will bring most taillights back good video glad see you fixing up your dad's old truck
Please make some more videos of what you are doing with the suburban! i have one 89 6.2D myself and it's my first car and i really wanna know everything about these :) Greetings from Norway :D (Y)
Great video man. As far as the flasher was it plug and play? Or did you have to rewire anything? Do you happen to have a link to the flaher or a part #? Thanks
Yes, as long as you ground that black wire, it's plug and play. It won't work at all if you don't ground it. It was the United Pacific Industries 90650 LED flasher
Why/how is it... that leds look dimmer then the old halogen lights... i tried the same for my 69 Buick i built. But, man, the old halogen lights up so much better then the leds..
There's actually a pretty simple answer to this. Modern vehicles opt for LEDs because they can be brighter and illuminate faster than halogen lights, but as mentioned in the video you can't just plug LEDs into an older system and have them operate correctly. LED boards usually have resistor chips in them, because they still need resistance to operate but the diodes don't naturally resist current. If you have other halogen lights in series with the LEDs, they should still operate... but if you don't, you have to add resistance in the circuit. Basically where you put the resistor can have an effect on brightness (along with angle of the lights themselves changing visibility which I think may be why it's hard to see these one from directly behind). So putting LEDs on an older vehicle that wasn't set up and built around running them usually means you either have to have a really good in depth understanding of where to put resistors so you can actually get the brighter light, or just sacrifice the brightness and visibility to save the headache.
You should upload more on this truck man. I love your video style
Hoping to soon! Had a big brake issue I'm sorting through right now.
Ziploc bands n marker are your friend n a buffer n scratch remover will bring most taillights back good video glad see you fixing up your dad's old truck
Please make some more videos of what you are doing with the suburban!
i have one 89 6.2D myself and it's my first car and i really wanna know everything about these :)
Greetings from Norway :D (Y)
WE NEED MORE SUBURBAN VIDEOS !!!
Great video man. As far as the flasher was it plug and play? Or did you have to rewire anything? Do you happen to have a link to the flaher or a part #? Thanks
Yes, as long as you ground that black wire, it's plug and play. It won't work at all if you don't ground it. It was the United Pacific Industries 90650 LED flasher
That is a cool Suburban, when I was growing up he had one like that. Are you in Corrales?
No sir, closer to El Paso actually.
Why/how is it... that leds look dimmer then the old halogen lights... i tried the same for my 69 Buick i built. But, man, the old halogen lights up so much better then the leds..
There's actually a pretty simple answer to this. Modern vehicles opt for LEDs because they can be brighter and illuminate faster than halogen lights, but as mentioned in the video you can't just plug LEDs into an older system and have them operate correctly. LED boards usually have resistor chips in them, because they still need resistance to operate but the diodes don't naturally resist current. If you have other halogen lights in series with the LEDs, they should still operate... but if you don't, you have to add resistance in the circuit. Basically where you put the resistor can have an effect on brightness (along with angle of the lights themselves changing visibility which I think may be why it's hard to see these one from directly behind).
So putting LEDs on an older vehicle that wasn't set up and built around running them usually means you either have to have a really good in depth understanding of where to put resistors so you can actually get the brighter light, or just sacrifice the brightness and visibility to save the headache.
No more videos?