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FordDZLMan9191 06-08-2010 09:36 PM

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I'm trying to figure out how to do my lights. What do you guys think? Picture 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5?

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The red lights would go all the way across the toolbox.
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http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/l...s/be6858aa.jpg
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tiremann9669 06-08-2010 10:40 PM

I thought about puttin lights in my back bumper like that, what did you use to cut the holes ? :humm:

FordDZLMan9191 06-08-2010 11:13 PM

Me? I didn't mount any of mine yet. I just used tape to stick them to my toolbox to take pics. Plus mine are just surface mount. I imagine that for the oval ones though, that you could use an appropriate size hole saw to get the ends and then cut out the middle with a die grinder, sawzall, torch, plasma cutter, or whatever.

redneck11 06-09-2010 02:58 PM

3 :tu: dont want to overdue it and i thinke the ovales are ugly

AF1CUMMINS 06-09-2010 07:04 PM

I'd go with #3

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Originally Posted by Lil Red Express (Post 565871)

How'd you do those lights on your front mud flaps?

ugly truck 06-11-2010 01:00 PM

I have no pictures but 4 dayliter with a wopie light on top of roof, 2 more running light witch are 6inch haligen munted in crome houseing, extra set of tail light mounted on toolbox, 7red and 4 amber on my flat bed, 4 work light and 5 work light that can be moved. that shoud be enoff light for one truck sorry standard cab lights.

blacktruck 07-28-2010 10:10 PM

Where did those come from???
 

Originally Posted by 94Matt (Post 297931)
I'm probably way off, but I assumed the term came from truckers that were afraid or "chicken" about not being safe or at least legal with marker lights.


Originally Posted by biged681985 (Post 297939)
u have to have alot of light on chicken trucks cause they chickens like light.


Originally Posted by Buckshotmckee (Post 299340)
Chicken lights are put on the front of truck bumper to help the driver get as close as possible to an object before having to make a corrective turn or maneuver. The reason there called chicken lights is because truckers were/are afraid of damaging the nose of there rigs..



Way off on all of those explanations. We called them chicken lights back in the 70s and 80s because back then the first guys to put a lot of lights on their trucks were chicken haulers, mostly out of north west Arkansas. A lot of those trucks ran coast to coast and they sure looked great at night. There were others that had lights but on the CB they all were called chicken haulers if they had a lot of lights. Hence the term "chicken lights". Now the term has came to mean almost any marker lights other than stock. Gotta love the look of them but make sure you install them correctly.
Not sure where those other explanations came from but I was there on the road at that time.
Stay safe out there.
Ken

kyledude222 08-02-2010 09:30 PM

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Heres my lights, I still want to get some below the doors and along the bottom of the truck.
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Lil Red Express 08-03-2010 06:08 PM

Some updated pics.......
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/h...otshow/020.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/h...otshow/016.jpg

Steelslinger 08-05-2010 06:23 PM

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Slowly getting the lights installed. Here's what I've got so far.


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