LED tail lights for 1987 34W
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2017 8:59 pm
Another project I want to document here for others is the installation of Bargman LED tail lights. These will be direct replacements on 1986 thru 1990 Avion non-basement-model trailers. The new lights referenced here are LED for the brake lights, incandescent for the reverse lights.
I ordered Bargman #47-84-008 from Jet.com a couple of years ago. Looking at them now, I think they mistakenly had them listed then as a pair for the same price that they have them now for a single assembly. I got a really good deal..... Got 2 for less than $50 delivered to my door!
I hope this post has all of the information you might need to get yours replaced, but feel free to ask questions.... I'll do my best to answer them.
https://jet.com/product/product/f337418 ... 408a1d3b19
http://www.bargman.com/products/taillig ... 0pk0UlcoA=
They were easy to install and I like the way they look and shine brightly. The new assemblies had the wiring schematic embossed on the back of them, so it was an easy exercise of moving one wire at a time from the old assembly to the new. I used crimp-on wire splices to make the connections, and a dielectric grease to help protect the splices.
I modified the plastic base that is on the trailer to utilize T-nuts instead of simply screwing the screws into the plastic. The lights are way more secure, and I had at least one screw hole that was stripped out. Had to use my pocket knife to trim some notches out of the base so that the hole in the base would line up with the threaded hole in the T-nuts. Easy to do with a sharp blade. A utility knife would have worked well, also. Had to shape the T-nuts a bit to fit the thicker plastic base.
Definitely an improvement!
I ordered Bargman #47-84-008 from Jet.com a couple of years ago. Looking at them now, I think they mistakenly had them listed then as a pair for the same price that they have them now for a single assembly. I got a really good deal..... Got 2 for less than $50 delivered to my door!
I hope this post has all of the information you might need to get yours replaced, but feel free to ask questions.... I'll do my best to answer them.
https://jet.com/product/product/f337418 ... 408a1d3b19
http://www.bargman.com/products/taillig ... 0pk0UlcoA=
They were easy to install and I like the way they look and shine brightly. The new assemblies had the wiring schematic embossed on the back of them, so it was an easy exercise of moving one wire at a time from the old assembly to the new. I used crimp-on wire splices to make the connections, and a dielectric grease to help protect the splices.
I modified the plastic base that is on the trailer to utilize T-nuts instead of simply screwing the screws into the plastic. The lights are way more secure, and I had at least one screw hole that was stripped out. Had to use my pocket knife to trim some notches out of the base so that the hole in the base would line up with the threaded hole in the T-nuts. Easy to do with a sharp blade. A utility knife would have worked well, also. Had to shape the T-nuts a bit to fit the thicker plastic base.
Definitely an improvement!