Rear Taillight Bucket Access

I haven't taken possession of my truck yet. How do you access the taillight bucket? I would like to wire up backup lights and need to access the harness to the taillights.

 

Nothing overly complicated, drop the tailgate & theres a few bolts...
What lights were you going to run, curious...

 

The Victory 4x4 bumper I bought will have a pair of Baja Design S2 lights. Plus, the sliders will have a pair of rock lights mounted at the back end. My plan is to fire the lights two ways. First is to power them from a fuse block next to the battery to a relay in the taillight bucket. The relay will power the lights on the sliders and bumper when the backup lights come on. Second, I will use one of the AUX switches on the dash to power the lights from the dash.

 

Just recently bought a bunch of baja design s2 & s1's for my front end....
Brain storming about some revers lights but baby steps at this point....

 

Yep.

 

Modified OEM pigtail to Added Reverse Lamps

 

Victory 4x4s bed support instal video does a good job of explaining the tabs that hold in the tail light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZivNMwhYgJE

 

OMG. Can it be made more difficult? All I'm going to do is:

Run a wire off an aux fuse block next to the battery to the taillight bucket. Connect batt power to #87 on the relay. Run #30 to the light harness. Wire tap into the green wire in the right side taillight bucket, and hook to #86. Run #85 to a ground. Done deal. Ya, I could also wire them to one of the AUX switches on the dash as well, but I sure wouldn't make it that complicated. Just the black wire from S1 to a light and it's a done deal.

 

Thanks. I'll check that out.

 

Difficult? I've done all the mind part for you. Such lazy simpletons.

 

I spliced into the reverse light wire on the trailer plug on my truck. That way I didn't have to deal with a relay.

 

I didn't see a branch on the backup light EWD for the trailer socket. I'll look into this idea, though mounting the relay in the light bucket would keep it protected.