Finally picked up door hinge bushings (and pins, of course) and that spring compression tool. I don't know what took so long, it only came to about $25, I've spent that much on floor mats. Now I just need to get off my butt and replace the things.

 

i need to do mine too but am just too lazy

 

Finally replaced the driver door hinge bushings & pins. Top/top was a bit out of round but I'm going to go ahead and pretend I got them in time. Until joining this forum I thought it was just bad weatherstrip, so in a sense I've only been procrastinating for 4 months.

Amazing how smoothly the door closes now and when I washed it I didn't have to dry the inside of window, the switches, those pockets at the bottom of the door ... Only took 90 minutes and $20, I should have done this back when we still had precipitation around here

 

I've never tried to embed a video here, so I'm not sure how well this will work. Click on the pics, I think.

Using this circuit (without the pumpkin), a 5V voltage regulator and 18 LEDs my 3rd brake light now does this



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and a week or so ago I hooked this sucker up to the grill



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can u help me with this id like to get my rear hatch and 4x4 controls to be blue

also ur blazer is mint!! lol so all the things u do to it just make it better.

im really in love with the led scanner i wanna do that to my third brake light so that wen i hit the brakes it goes back and forth but wen im not they would be stationary.

id like to do the blue scanner with one blue on the front and the 4 light bars underneath wen i get my under glow

 

The 4x controls on the '02 are already LED's so I just soldered in new colors. Tight quarters in there, but even my old sloppy soldering iron did minimal damage.
The rear hatch release was a bit harder since it was a small incandescent bulb soldered in place. I pulled that out and attached a resistor to the positive leg of blue LED and kinda smashed the thing down until it didn't stick up too far. Both assemblies can be pulled out the front without removing the dash, so I did everything at my workbench rather than while sitting in the truck.

The brake was really a pain. Stock is a long thin board with 30 LEDs and a bunch of resistors. To reuse that I would have had to cut every 3rd trace (or every 5th if I used the 6 light scanner), ran a bunch of wires up through the holes that currently have only two, solder all those wires in order while standing on the tailgate, etc. Instead I got a long piece of plastic (cut from a long tube that held a one piece rifle cleaning rod), poked 36 holes in it (2 for each LED) made sure it would fit in the light housing with room to spare (I made a cutout along one edge the same size as the circuit board), then built everything as compactly as I could - That's why several of the lights look brighter or dimmer, they aren't all pointing the same direction. The plastic tube wasn't all that rigid, I didn't clip each LED exactly the same, wedging the board in there kind of twisted part of it (board ended up above the lights instead of on the bottom, just fit better that way)
Since I fit the entire setup in there I could leave the original 2 wires in place and slapped on a voltage regulator under the trim panel inside the truck - Partially because I didn't want the heat those make in such a tight space. Then I coated everything with non conductive silicon rubber in the hope that I could postpone the water damage I saw on the stock light bar (rust on a circuit board? Did GM use iron instead of aluminum?)

 

the hatch and 4x4 switch i think i can do my uncle has a soldering gun but what kind of leds do u fnd to replace the colors? and the light for the hatch i think if i can get the bulbs those wont be a problem.

next the brakelight is gonna need some work that is a big project lol im not sure i could do it to be onest im electrically savy in someways but thats a lil more than i know hahaha but id like to just do it with the stock light if possible???

 

I'm pretty sure they are 3mm, I just used what was laying around the house. These should work, or pop by your local Radio Shack ... If you can convince them that you really don't want a new cell phone, eventually they should be able to point you in the general direction of the LEDs.

I don't know any way to get the stock brake light to do that without serious modification. But there are after market light bars you can buy and totally replace the thing.

This is the first significant precipitation we've had in quite a while, apparently I should have waterproofed the front scanner - It's got a bit of condensation in there already. After it dries out in the next couple days, I'll break out the silicon rubber again. And maybe tint it so it doesn't stand out so much when it's off.

 

alrite thats wat the lights look like id get 4 blue ones and if that goes well ill be replacing my gauge cluster emergency lights with green ones or more blue ones havnt decided thats the easy part.

id like it to be aound the same size as the stock one maybe a bit bigger and where would i find an aftermarket bar for the rear brake light?

thats an interesting idea about the tint i my do that to the third brake as well since the tail lights im getting r coming tinted already

 

also did you ever change the lights in your door controls ciuz i cant gte my driver side window controls to light up....