{"id":577,"date":"2020-07-16T23:58:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/?p=577"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:25:24","slug":"backup-lights-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/07\/16\/backup-lights-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Backup lights part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The inner panel has one large hole that the light housing sticks through, plus two small holes for the mounting studs. \u00a0The large hole is 1-7\/8\u201d in diameter, and I didn\u2019t have \u00a0that size, so I had to wait for that to arrive in the mail.<\/p>\n

I made a wooden template from a 2×4 to locate pilot holes for the three. \u00a0I goofed on the orientation of the holes on the RH side and didn\u2019t realize it until the first test fit with the lamp. \u00a0Oh well…two extra holes.<\/p>\n

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\nI had to grind the big hole and enlarge the stud holes a bit to get the lamps to fit properly,<\/span><\/p>\n

a quick spray to seal up the bare metal, and on to final assembly.<\/p>\n

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A little touch up and… just need to hook up the wiring.<\/p>\n

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The inner panel has one large hole that the light housing sticks through, plus two small holes for the mounting studs. \u00a0The large hole is 1-7\/8\u201d in diameter, and I didn\u2019t have \u00a0that size, so I had to wait for that to arrive in the mail. I made a wooden template from a 2×4 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-and-paint","category-camaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}