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Reassemble Tail Lights and Final Test

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Upgrading My 1972 LSA Swap Monte Carlo To LED Tail Lights! (Bought The Kit 6 Yrs Ago..Never Opened)

What happens here

Insert the connected LED board into the tail light housing. Place the provided foam gasket over the LED board, ensuring it aligns with the mounting points. This gasket helps seal the housing and prevent moisture intrusion. Gently push the plastic lens cover back into place and secure it with the Phillips head screws previously removed. The presenter notes that one of the screws is thicker than the others, and the thinner ones recess better into the bezel. He decides to remove the vertical grates from the plastic lens for a cleaner, more modern look.

Goal: Secure the new LED lights and confirm proper function

Tools and materials

  • Phillips Head Screwdriver Unspecified — Securing the plastic lens cover
  • Foam Gasket Unspecified — Sealing the tail light housing and preventing moisture intrusion

What they say

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know they work i don't really know how i feel about this the official instructions give you wire nuts i don't really like that but hey you know i'm not want to disobey the instructions so we are going to use these and i am going to like it because it's easy don't tell anyone okay so i've got the ground hooked up the stop and the tail wire is hooked up let's look at the battery see if it works um ruger was doing some gobbling again so we had to put him away because it was disgusting really distracting it said don't hook them up while the battery is still hooked up so i'd lesser disconnected to connect everything stand back there while i pull the lever see if it works yeah wow doesn't that look so much cooler it does i can see on the gopro that it's like flashing yeah it doesn't look like that yeah it's not doing that in person here let me hit the brake pedal see if it gets brighter yeah it looks so weird on the gopro yeah it looks better see how it that is so much brighter awesome well um i did hook up the turn signal wire but uh when i tried to bench test the turn signal with the test light just to validate that that yellow wire is what that is return signals don't work at all so that's a separate problem for a different day not the first time i've had this happen with this car i think this thing is 49 years old actually might be 50 technically because if it's a 72 model year it was probably built in 71 and it's 21. so 50 years of nonsense in this wiring harness so i can't can't really give it any i can't complain it's you know it's been through a lot so yeah let's uh let's get into get the other side done put the covers back on and see how this thing actually lurks um you know when it's working but i'm gonna unhook the battery again so i don't fry that one this side all wired up with you know our super fancy supplied wire nuts and whatnot i still feel kind of weird about that but i'm gonna go hook the battery back up and test these things do you think i messed it up no you have like a perfect dog print on your leg yeah i had to there's another one yeah that's what i'm talking about it's like a perfect paw print pull the knob

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