3rd brake
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What color are you looking for?
I have one sitting in my shelf I pulled out of a car. It's maroon and slightly faded on the top but complete.
AFAIK it's not repopped
I have one sitting in my shelf I pulled out of a car. It's maroon and slightly faded on the top but complete.
AFAIK it's not repopped
Ummmm, I think I have a box of them somewhere. I know there were several different ones. I’ll see if I can find them.
timo22
timo22
The light bulb socket tend to melt into crap...just be mindful of that if you're j-yard hunting. Perhaps cooler led upgrade.
Damn you, Tim, you're going to get even more of my money now. If there's enough of them to go around I'm interested.
I hate those things on a G-body. If the 87 didn't already have the rear window defrogger lines designed to flow around that light, I'd yank that one out.
If someone doesn't find one for you, I think I might have an NOS one in a box somewhere. It's not in my spreadsheets, but I recall stumbling across it somewhere a few months back. If I find it.
Apparently they have LED panel upgrades for these things. I know nothing, see nothing.
Oh, and wiring it up can be a slight issue if you don't have a wiring harness from a 3rd light equipped car. To add it, you're far better off simply finding your brake light switch under the dash. You'll see an orange wire (power in) and a white wire (power to the turn signal switch for tail bulbs). Tap off of that white wire and run a separate one to the 3rd brake light and the other wire to a ground. I think they're blue and black wires on the 3rd brake lamp, but I could be wrong. If you don't and think you can just tap off one of the stoplight side of the tail light bulb wires (yellow RH, green LH), it'll blink every time you put the turn signal in the direction of whichever wire you tapped into. So if you do it, bring it off the brake switch white wire. Now, there is some wiring tricks you may be able to get by with to use both tail wires and not blow fuses with a controller, but that's up to you. I like things simple. Those controller boxes seem like an awful lot of wasted time/money for something running ONE single wire from the brake switch white wire can fix.
If someone doesn't find one for you, I think I might have an NOS one in a box somewhere. It's not in my spreadsheets, but I recall stumbling across it somewhere a few months back. If I find it.
Apparently they have LED panel upgrades for these things. I know nothing, see nothing.
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Oh, and wiring it up can be a slight issue if you don't have a wiring harness from a 3rd light equipped car. To add it, you're far better off simply finding your brake light switch under the dash. You'll see an orange wire (power in) and a white wire (power to the turn signal switch for tail bulbs). Tap off of that white wire and run a separate one to the 3rd brake light and the other wire to a ground. I think they're blue and black wires on the 3rd brake lamp, but I could be wrong. If you don't and think you can just tap off one of the stoplight side of the tail light bulb wires (yellow RH, green LH), it'll blink every time you put the turn signal in the direction of whichever wire you tapped into. So if you do it, bring it off the brake switch white wire. Now, there is some wiring tricks you may be able to get by with to use both tail wires and not blow fuses with a controller, but that's up to you. I like things simple. Those controller boxes seem like an awful lot of wasted time/money for something running ONE single wire from the brake switch white wire can fix.
Maybe I should throw Jr.'s hat into this ring as the one I plan to put in his car needs a bulb holder/reflector too.
I had to buy a replacement rear window with defog for my 87 442, soooooo.....I accidentally bought a 1985 version. Oops 😁
Hutch
