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    Any good hacks/upgrades you've come up with for our trucks

    Yup, one relay for hi-beams and another relay for lo-beams. Use reasonably heavy gauge wire for power to your headlights from the battery and the same goes for your ground wires. I also recommend using the relay sockets instead of just spade terminals... they make the sockets so that you can...
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    Any good hacks/upgrades you've come up with for our trucks

    Of course, others have already mentioned it but you get a lot of "bang for your buck" by installing a headlight relay wiring harness. Original wiring and a "sketchy" design takes power from the battery, through the headlight switch (at full blast), and then all the way up front to the...
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    Thank you sincerely for the suggestion Dan but I'm not a fan of the aftermarket LED headlights. A great deal of engineering goes into designing regulatory compliant headlights with optimal beam patterns and frankly, just about any monkey with a soldering iron and access to cheap components from...
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    OK, I committed. I bought the Hella 550 fog light kit with amber lenses for $65. It includes the wiring harness with relay and H3 lamps. When I find some time, I'll try the install. Busy trying to sell my house before I drive cross-country so it may be a while. I'll check back in when I have...
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    Well, there's an option. Thanks Craig! To keep her looking semi-stock, I think that I might just use the square park lights intended for quad headlight GM trucks. They're inexpensive and mostly hidden behind the grill.
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    Oohrah! (or, since you're Army, "Hooah!")
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    Yes Frankenchevy, the front end of my truck looks like yours. However, I haven't decided to do this for sure... yet. Also, if I do, I may wait until I get to where I'm going (transferring to a new command in the Pacific NW)... and yes, I'm driving my truck 2,800 miles to get there. Could be some...
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    Here's the core support for dual headlamp '81-'88 trucks: https://www.jegs.com/images/photos/100/106/106-350-4081.jpg and here's the core support for single headlamp '81-'88 trucks: https://www.jegs.com/images/photos/100/106/106-350-4081-1.jpg Not much difference.
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    Heck, I could even put some smaller round parking lights in the space behind the grill. Minimal rework there. The grills look very similar between the 2 headlight and 4 headlight variants... the headlight doors are obviously different. Perhaps the core support is also slightly different to...
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    In my initial post, I explained that I would run the square parking/directional lamps behind the grill in the lower corners... just like the trucks with four headlights (separate hi and lo beams) and then swap the Hella 550 fog lights in place of the original parking lamps located under the...
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    Thanks Charlie!
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    A couple considerations about fog lamps... they're not legal everywhere. In Washington state, statutes stipulate that fog lamps must "Be mounted ...so the inner edge of the lens retaining ring is no closer than four inches to the optical center of the front turn signal lamp to provide...
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    Thanks! That's very helpful. I found a brand new Hella 550 set/kit with amber lenses, including the wiring harness with relay for just $65. I like that they're made in Germany and not somewhere in Asia ;0) I am very tempted to try them. I planned to bolt them through the core support...
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    and no, I don't necessarily think that plastic park light lenses are "ridiculous" ...just unattractive (and overpriced) in this case.
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    Well, going back to the days before plastic, all signal light lenses were glass (including some made of borosilicate [Pyrex] glass). My complaint is simply that the stock park light lenses are ugly (especially directly below the headlamps) and the plastic is crazed and hazy/foggy on mine. The...
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    Found the custom parking lamp from that video in the LMC catalog... it's part number 37-4593. It's NOT a DRL; it's a custom parking lamp with a "crystal clear" lens. I've got a call into LMC to find out if it's a glass lens or plastic. If it turns out to be glass, my concern will be addressed to...
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    I just ran across this video... fellow looks like he did something similar to his R10 (except that I think he went with DRLs instead of fog lights).
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    Replace Parking Lights with Hella 550 Fog Lamps on an '87 R10?

    Hello Fellow Square Body Owners. I'm new to the forum and I own a 1987 Chevy R10 (long bed, fleetside) with the stock 305 TBI... just 82,000 original miles. Last weekend, I installed my headlight relay wiring harness. My stock single sealed beam hi/lo headlights (H6054 lamps) are MUCH brighter...

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