broncobisley1
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Just got done installing utility lights and converting my blinkers to hazard lights, and thought I'd share.
I purchased the two utility lights from Northern Tool a while back for $10 each. I purchased a two-position push pull switch, a three position push pull switch and some wire at Advance Auto for $15. I already had everything else.
Basically I don't need blinkers so I used the two position push pull switch and just wired the two blinker wires together on one side of the switch to get hazard lights.
I unhooked the blinker wire from the fuse box, then soldered together a Y, so that the new wire hooked up to the fuse box with a connector, one leg of the Y hooked up to the blinker wire that used to go to the fuse box, the other leg of the Y went to my three position switch.
I then installed the two utility lights shown in the picture. I put them there, because I never lower the roll bar and it was the perfect mounting place. I then ran wire along the tractor, taped and wrapped to the existing wires so they wouldn't snag. I hooked the wires up to the three position switch, so that the light shining down comes on first, then they both come on in the second position.
When I removed the existing blinker switch the hole was too large, so I had to use fender washers (on top and underneath) with cork underneath them and a small washer to act as a spacer in the large hole (to keep switch from being able to move laterally). I moved the hazard switch closer to the steering wheel ( already was a hole there, just needed to be a little larger) and put the utility light switch where the blinker switch used to be.
I still have to do a little touch up with paint. Black goop around utility light switch is permatex. Wished I had done this a long time ago. Now to take the tractor back to its normal home. Pictures were before I had adjusted the light direction, had to wait for it to get dark first.
Just wanted to share.
I purchased the two utility lights from Northern Tool a while back for $10 each. I purchased a two-position push pull switch, a three position push pull switch and some wire at Advance Auto for $15. I already had everything else.
Basically I don't need blinkers so I used the two position push pull switch and just wired the two blinker wires together on one side of the switch to get hazard lights.
I unhooked the blinker wire from the fuse box, then soldered together a Y, so that the new wire hooked up to the fuse box with a connector, one leg of the Y hooked up to the blinker wire that used to go to the fuse box, the other leg of the Y went to my three position switch.
I then installed the two utility lights shown in the picture. I put them there, because I never lower the roll bar and it was the perfect mounting place. I then ran wire along the tractor, taped and wrapped to the existing wires so they wouldn't snag. I hooked the wires up to the three position switch, so that the light shining down comes on first, then they both come on in the second position.
When I removed the existing blinker switch the hole was too large, so I had to use fender washers (on top and underneath) with cork underneath them and a small washer to act as a spacer in the large hole (to keep switch from being able to move laterally). I moved the hazard switch closer to the steering wheel ( already was a hole there, just needed to be a little larger) and put the utility light switch where the blinker switch used to be.
I still have to do a little touch up with paint. Black goop around utility light switch is permatex. Wished I had done this a long time ago. Now to take the tractor back to its normal home. Pictures were before I had adjusted the light direction, had to wait for it to get dark first.
Just wanted to share.