Date:         Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:09:57 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Extra tailight in spare socket?
Comments: To: neil <musomuso@gmail.com>
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Yeah, my local Lordco.  Green cardboard at the back of a blister pack.  Plug
and play. Washed a ton of dust out of the lenses too!

And I just got around to mounting the high-mounted brakelight on the top of
Dixie. It looks factory and the LED array is VERY visible way up there.

I used a fixture from a white GM delivery van, the kind you see all over
Vancouver.  The earlier one that simply surface mounts. It has its own
built-in gasket and fastens to the fibreglass with two screws. The wires go
through the bed platform and right down behind the closet to the engine
bay.  One crimp fitting and one ground, seal the hole and you're all done

Dixie looks all modern now, with the Merceds wheels and the foil/bubble in
the windows and the sexy little LED high brake light.    :)

Seeya, Jake

On 4/9/07, neil <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jake.
>
> Did you find these 7506 bulbs at a FLAPS store?
>
> Neil.
>
>
>
> On 4/9/07, Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I did this and I think I used some brass sheet stock to make a simple
> folded
> > brass 'spring' a little like the ones in the bottom of household light
> > fixtures. I don't remember clearly.
> >
> > It does a pretty good job, but I put 7506   21W bulbs in my other van
> and
> > they work just as well, if not better.  No sign of melting.   :)
> >
> > On 4/9/07, Gregor Brandt <gbrandt@marionette.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > '86 Westy
> > >
> > > I am thinking of getting more light out of the back of the van for
> night
> > > driving.  I removed the lenses and noticed an extra socket, which I
> assume
> > > is for the Euro foglamp.  This socket has no 'springy' power connector
> at
> > > the bottom of it.  I would like to use this socket for an extra
> driving
> > > light, has anybody else done this? If so, what did you use for the
> springy
> > > powerconnect at the bottom of the bulb?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Gregor
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jake
> > 1984 Vanagon GL
> > 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
> > www.crescentbeachguitar.com
> >
>
>
> --
> Neil Nicholson. 1981 Air Cooled Westfalia.
>
> http://web.mac.com/tubaneil
>



--
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com