LED Taillights

[Jeff Miller]

Mounting holes I'm not remembering, but I don't think so as the
original Cat-Eye lights have the screws out on the corners and the
new ones are round, ... thus the witness lines where the stripe
doesn't cover the cream paint on the upper light. I think that the
gasket for the new light just barely covers the old screw-holes.

As far as wiring:

I believe that the tail-lamps can be changed with no wiring
modifications (although I suggest wiring the upper one to the tail-
lamp with the lower one). If you change the side-repeaters and the
front turn-signals also (all turn signals would then be LED) then the
flasher will not blink, I install a dummy load in the overhead at the
large relays, 10ohm-20watt is what I remember using, from Radio
Shack, the big ceramic-style resistors.

Maxxima makes a nice LED clearance light that is as close as I've
found to a direct replacement: It is the same screw-holes and a 1-
wire unit like original, but it is smaller overall so again the light
doesn't cover the old footprint in the stripe (stripes added after
lights, although your '82 has the tape-stripes (through mid-'83)).
Also the Maxxima lights will require that you caulk or silicone-seal
the wire hole when installing so that water doesn't creep in through
the bracket.

Good luck,

- Jeff Miller
in Holland, MI


--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Scott Forman"
<sforman@r...> wrote:
>
> Can they just be wired straight in with no modifications? Do the
> mounting holes in the body line up?