I've got single filamint led bulbs that plug and play in them and they are fine. They only light up as running lights and indicators. I saw a post here about modifing the flasher terminal so it wouldn't flash as fast due to having the led bulbs.

 

Yeah, I've looked into that too, you have to pop it apart and de-solder one of the legs. I just opted to get the electronic flasher to stop the fast flash, since it seemed to be the better method, especially over those s#!t resistors some people say to use. But nothing I've found wrong with playing with the stock flasher

 

Only took me like 2 minutes to take it out, then I used a blade to scrape off one of the solders.

 

I really like those tail lights on your blazer. I'm really lookinh forward to getting them. I need to get it mechanically sound first though.

 

Thanks! I just got them in January with my tax return, and I was looking for the black ones I have in smoked, but couldn't find them, but decided to get some e-vinyl to tint them when I decide to do that again. I was never really a fan of chrome tail lights, and the black ones screamed at me when I saw them. I got mine on eBay, and they came with a pair of LED DRL bars (universal fit) for $79 and free shipping, got here 3 days later on a Saturday and the fit like factory.
I'll admit that the bulb socket was weird, in that the bulbs wouldn't tighten. You'd put them in. Twist, and lock, but they'd jiggle around. I got my led bulbs immediately after, so I just made ring spacers out of foam I got from hobby lobby. LEDs means practically no heat, so I figured I was safe.

 

I've tried cheap e-bay LED bulbs as well as the $25 SuperBrightLED ones, and none were as bright as a standard bulb. The biggest problem I had with them was the lack of difference between the 2 intensities, it's noticeable, just not good enough. $.02

 

Yup, thats why you gotta build your own LED tail lights.

 

Agreed! Going to retrofit these into stock housings.

 

If done right, you can get those to look good, I have seen people do that and completely f- it up.
I am going to be redoing mind this summer, I am going to be getting some PWM's (pulse width modulator) so the whole board functions as one unit, instead of having dedicated LED's for brake/signal, and dedicated led's for running.
when the parking lights are on, the PWM will dim the led's by flashing them at 60-80hz making them appear to be dim. Then once you hit the brake or signal, it over rides that and puts the leds at full continuous power.

This is how I have them now.


basically with that setup, when the parking lights are on, and you hit the brakes, lighting up more led's makes it "brighter" it works pretty well, but i'm sick of it already.

 

I really like that too!! I don't think I could pull that off though. I'm not too great with wiring/electrical work. Between high school, work, and my girlfriend, Ifs a little hard to find time to work on it. How long did it take to do that?