Some lighting

Since my truck is mostly a hunting truck I figured I would throw some lights on it. I do take it to work from time to time and even with new headlights and bulbs the lighting headed home at 1am was a bit weak.

Harbor Freight for the light bar. It’s plenty bright.

Amazon for the ditch/rear.

I did get the rago fab mounts.

 

A lot of available lighting options, including curved light bar for the bumper, is covered in the "Lighting info ..." section of the community 1st gen info megathread. We could probably use a link or two to more info on ditch lighting, but here's what's there:

• Bumper/grille light options HERE.
• If replacing your housings, alwyas buy "CAPA Certified" products to ensure it's not garbage. For higher-quality brands that last longer offering CAPA certified options, use Depo, EagleEyes, TYC. Some say Akkon make good products.
• If swapping to LED headlights or fog lights, there's a common problem w/high beams & fog lights not working after, unless you add a plug-and-play resistor on at least one headlight - this may not be necessary if your headlight housings have the extra "teardrop light" in the corner of the housing. Problems have been reported with LED tail lights also, it's not just headlights. Some circuits require resistance that an LED doesn't deliver.
• Hyperflash problems are common after swapping LEDs into the turn signals. This can be solved installing a Diode Dynamics flashers (avoid the scAmazon knock-offs, buy direct).
• There are H4 mini-projectors available for our trucks, but you'll need to permanently modify the light housing, no oven-baking required, just remove the hat-shaped chrome shroud inside and install the light (detailed instructions). Likewise there are bake-in options for projectors. Check THIS REPLY for common headlight upgrage options, with links.
• For interior LEDs... There's a breakdown of interior light sizes over here. For climate control lighting updates, see here. Dash gauges for earlier 2000-2004 models with replaceable bulbs, check this. The later year model's dash gauges had on-board LEDs and are not replaceable without soldering, color not changeable without sanding the rear of the guage face. REMEMBER: LED lights are polarized. If you install them backwards, they won't light up! If you have one or more not lighting up, try popping out, rotating 180º, and reinstalling.

 

All useful info. This is just what I did. Everything works as it should. I also did the led interior upgrade.