Rampage Products Led Tail-Light W Back Up Install on 2017 BBP

Rampage Products Led Tail-Light W Back Up Install

Below is my write up for installing RAMPAGE PRODUCTS APC LED TAIL-LIGHT W BACK UP on my 2017 Off-Road.

Just too wet you whistle…this is what it looks like in action. I guess you kind of can see it...



Parts List

RAMPAGE PRODUCTS APC LED TAIL-LIGHT W BACK UP from Amazon $41.11

Splices

Wire tubing

Electrical tape

Masking tape

Isopropyl Alcohol

1 Voodoo Ranger IPA and 2 Big Wave Lagers (yup…more alcohol)


1. Measure out the bar on the brace between the tailgate and the bumper to align the LED bar. I used some masking tape to temp fit the bar for fit between the space to make sure it was visible. After getting the look I wanted, I marked the ends with masking tape. I made sure the wire harness was on the driver side. If not the L and R will be swapped.


2. I cleaned the attachment area with alcohol and pulled the strip off the 3M tape on the bar and lightly placed it on the brace. Once I had the right spot I pressed it on tight.


3 .The next step was to remove the drivers tail light by removing the second bolt from the
top and the bottom bolt. Oliver is my puppers helper.



4. After removing the housing, I found the reverse light and traced the wires into a wire tube conduit. I rang out the power line with my multi-meter. Then took a swig of my frosty beverage. My first cut in the factory wires. (Shit). I cut the wire and spliced the white wire from the LED bar and covered the splice with electrical tape then re-wrapped the wires with the factory wire tubing. I ran a separate wire tube to the Led bar for the single backup wire. I taped the whole thing up with electrical tape. The pict shows the white reverse wire and the wire tube before I wrapped them.


5. The next step was to attach the LED Bars 4 pin wire harness to my 4 pin plug on by the hitch. I wanted to see how I liked it before I cut more wires. I drove around like this for a week.


I love it…time to finish the install.

1. I got on my creeper and looked at the wires that go to my 4 pin & pin plug. The bumper outlet is made by Pollakand connects with a cannon plug. I took a screwdriver to release the plug from the bumper and removed the cannon plug from the outlet.


2. The cannon plug pin setting is as below. The 4 pin harness has 4 wires---L Turn—R Turn--Brake—Ground. I found a wire diagram on line from the Pollak company and traced the pins. Then I had my 15 yr old son do the turn signals and brake as I verified the signal with my Multi-meter.

3. I removed the factory conduit from the wire harness and stagger spliced in the wires as follows:

Funct Cannon Plug Factory Wire LED harness Wire

L Flasher Pin 1 Purple Yellow

R Flasher Pin 4 Blue (small wire) Green

Brake Pin 6 Green Brown

Ground Pin 2 White/ Black Stripe White

(my marker board on my beer fridge. Cannon plug Diagram and wire map plus some bottle openers)


(Stagger splicing is where you put splices one right after another so you don’t have a ball of splices…sorry no pict…see the diagram)



4. The factory conduit would not fit around my wires so I installed larger wire tubing and wrapped the conduit with electrical tape.

2. Finished the one beer that I started.

3. Took my Tacoma Widow (as my wife calls herself) out for dinner to pay for burning up a Sunday afternoon.

 

Hey I was just looking into installing one of these but wondered what you did about the spare tire access hole. Can you position the strip so that there is still access or did you just center the strip over the hole?

 

Nice write up man, thanks, good job!

 

Sorry it took so long to get back to you on this.

After a Saturated of mudding I found mud caked pretty much all over the bottom of the truck. I also needed to pull the spare tire. After 10 min of looking at the rig to drop the spare I devised this (see below). It's a 3/8 in ratchet and the piece that turns the spare tire winch. It took about 7 to 8 turns to drop the tire, then I wedged myself under the tire, removed the center piece and lowered the tire. Pretty easy.


On the mud, The spare tire had about 1in of mud caked in the hub cap. the rest of the underside was caked as well. I took the whole truck to a spray car wash put the back end up on ramps and went to town. 30 min later Clean as a whistle

 

Nice write up, Sand Shark. What size bar did you get? Did you get the 49" or 60"?

Thanks

 

Nice Goldendoodle!