[greenguyshrek]

Whats up peps. This write up is a how to for keeping your front side markers on when your corner bulbs are on. The side markers will also blink when the corner light blink aswell.
Its not that difficult to do and should not take more than 1hour.

Here we go.

First off you need to find your side marker. :P


Once you have done then you need to pop it off.


To do that you need to push it foward that out.


Now that you have it out you need to cut open the loom that is keeping it together.


Then it is time to cut the white wire.


Splice open the end that is connected to the light.


Now get about a 3 foot piece of wire and connect one end to the light using a butt connector.


Close up the loom using electical tape leaving the wire out.


Now you are going to need a metal hanger.


Open up the hanger as stright as you can.


You are going to use the hanger so you can fish the wire to the engine bay.


The hanger should look like this when you get it throught to the side marker opening.


You are going to wrap electrical tape around the open end of the wire you have to the hanger like this.


Then pull the hanger through to the engine bay.


Pop out your corner bulb and harnes.


Take out your bulb so that it dose not get broken your damaged.


Cut open the loom that is holding the wires together.


Locate the green wire with the orange stripe and splice it open.


Connect the end of the wire that you pulled through to the green and orange wire.


It should look like this.


Wrap the wires in electrical tape so they will not get lose or damaged.


Then connet your bulb back your your harness and put it back into the headlight and your done with the one side. Now do the exact same thing to the other side to finish up.

We also added chrome bulbs to the cleared headlight.


Here is the end result, the light is now on with the corner bubls. :eyebrow:



I hope you like it, good luck.

[DTRAIN619]

Nice. This will help those who weren't able to see pics from the original thread by Evildave.

[greenguyshrek]

Originally Posted by DTRAIN619

Nice. This will help those who weren't able to see pics from the original thread by Evildave.

Ya I saw that post. I just wanted to show everyone else that didn't see it.

[Ratty]

Nice write up!

[greenguyshrek]

Originally Posted by Ratty

Nice write up!

Thanks, If you try it and need any help let me know.

[gravebox]

thanks for the write-up, works great!

one thing though, both sides don't use the same green wire with the orange stripe. on the right side, the wire to use is the one that's purely green, no stripe on it.

there's also an easier way to do it that requires less wire.

the lines for the sidemarkers stretch out just behind the headlights and then go back into the fender down the sidemarker light. you really only need about 6 inches of wire if you tap in at this point rather then nearly 3 feet, but it really doesn't matter which way you do it.

love'n the opposite blinker effect

[litos_2006]

very cool mod did the same thing but did it the way gravebox mentioned

[greenguyshrek]

Originally Posted by gravebox

thanks for the write-up, works great!

one thing though, both sides don't use the same green wire with the orange stripe. on the right side, the wire to use is the one that's purely green, no stripe on it.

there's also an easier way to do it that requires less wire.

the lines for the sidemarkers stretch out just behind the headlights and then go back into the fender down the sidemarker light. you really only need about 6 inches of wire if you tap in at this point rather then nearly 3 feet, but it really doesn't matter which way you do it.

love'n the opposite blinker effect

Thanks for the info If I do this mod on another xb Ill look for the wires that you mentioned.

[SAKURA]

good job!
sticky w/ pics!

[sdsnybny]

tagged for reference, thanks great mod

[gravebox]

i followed the original way of doing it for now, it's all held by electrical tape at the moment. my electrical supplies seem to have dissappeared on me for the moment so it's only temporary.

i'll take some pics tomorrow showing what specific points i mentioned above if i can't get any tonight up.

left *left vehicle side* side, just below the fuse box, white and green wire are easy to see from straight above:




right *right vehicle side* side, comming out of the wiring harness. protective jacket will hide the wires, just need to track it, should be the first one present going back into the fender, easy to ID just by cutting the jacket open to check:



shouldn't need more then 6 inches of wire each side and could probably go as short as 3 or 4 inches.