LED Tailgate Light Bar INSTALL!! *Super BRIGHT*

SELECT RIGHT OPTION FOR YOUR TRUCK!!

Ram 2500 Trailer Wiring Guide

White Brown (Center Pin) - Reverse
White Brown - Parking Lights
Red - +
Black - -
Green - Right
Yellow - Left
Last Color i forget lol - Break

Today we install my favorite mod to do to a truck!! A Tailgate Light Bar!! I ordered the PUTCO Blade and im so glad i did!! looks so so good and is extremely bright!! would recommend to anybody looking for a product like this!!

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The Crew:

[jeffthornton]

Damn! I spent $20.00 on a light strip on Amazon and couldn’t be happier. You’re a better man than me coughing up 10Xs the price on yours.

[ktonic]

Need to swap out the taillight bulbs for LEDs so they're instant on/off like the light bar. That would drive me absolutely crazy seeing the stock signals and brakes fade in and out while the light bar comes on and turns off instantly.

Edit: This would be a must for me, even without the light bar!

[PeteyG]

Thanks for the recommendation. I am surprised you got one with Amber flashers when your truck doesnt have amber flashers on the rear. I want to get one for my 98 K1500, which only has red on the rear, so I hope they have one with Stop/Running, Reverse, and Red Flash.

Great video!

[thebmac]

Looks like a sweet rear end upgrade. To avoid future problems, I would highly suggest (as others have, but i'm trying to add a helpful factor in and not just name call) you do a better splice in job. The elements will make it through your electrical tape and corrode those connections. Those scotch lock connectors (t-taps) are no good and have seen them fail many times as well. I mean your connections, as is now, may last a week, a year, or maybe 10 years, but I'm sure you don't want to have to worry about it at all. I would suggest cutting the wires apart where you spliced in and either soldering them and then covering them with heat shrink that has adhesive inside that will help seal it up, or use butt splice connectors that have heat shrink with adhesive on them. You can get ones that can accept 2 wire on one side and one wire on the other side (like a yellow butt on one side and blue on the other). To take that even further in to the professional installation side, you could make or purchase an 8" adaptor with the correct connectors and amount of wires and then splice in off of that and have a connector there and install a connector on the light bar wires. You could then remove the adaptor and light bar if you ever wanted and just plug the factory connectors back together. Obviously this is just my opinion and someone else might call me an idiot or maybe have something helpful to add, which i'm fine with learning, But this is what has worked for me to make good wiring connections and not have to worry about them. Cheers

[trxfm]

I love my Putco Blade...i've had 3 since Christmas 2018. Thank God for the warranty.

[sean-rady]

Hey man, just wanted to say thanks for this video. I bought my Putco 48" this week, it came in yesterday and I got it installed last night. Super awesome light and have gotten a lot of compliments on it. I'll post a video and give you a shout out. Thanks again!

[heberperez]

Has he heard of the CURT 55384 Vehicle Side Custom USCAR Vehicle Trailer Wiring Harness for Towing, 4-Pin Trailer Wiring? I used it to install my OPT7 Triple LED Tailgate Bar with sequential turn signal, and the only splice I had to do was for the Reverse cable. The CURT harness took care of the rest. In my case the bar already came with the 4-Pin connector pre-installed and a single cable for the Reverse.

[Scotty_in_Ohio]

....spends $200 on a tailgate lightbar - okay fine.... doesn't spend $12 on a soldering iron to make good connections - not so cool....

[nelsonbardsley]

Received my light bar and wired it today. The lights are amazing [bright and crisp]. Get one, you'll love it. Save yourself some time and order a Curt #56584 harness and #58550 5 pin connector plug from Amazon. Just plug and play, no cutting into your trucks wiring. You will have to wire in the backup light, but this can be done on your work bench. Thanks Ryan. Also the light bar does NOT interfere with the lowering of the spare tire, you just have to modify the protective ring a bit.

[GusgusA]

Did you just wrap spliced wires on the under side of the truck with just electrical tape? No solder, connectors or heat shrink?
Moisture problems ahead.

[daltonwilliams]

New drinking game.... every time he says “here” drink. 😂

[hvacproman]

Thx for the video. Anyway to show the back up camera while light is on? Or maybe quick answer on if it effects the camera with how bright the light is? Im worried it might effect the back up cameras picture at night. But either way great video, keep them coming. Thx

[Ddawg]

Don’t use any snap connectors, always use heat shrink connections. They’re weatherproof, and will not corrode if you do it properly do it. Splicing wires the way he did is sure to fail shortly.

[Apacheg]

Oh snap I need this!!! Subscribed great video I just got a ram 1500 ready to mod it up

[rgamore]

You put so much into your Ram truck, now protect the center of rear wheel well openings from rusting. It's a very common problem for Ram Trucks. Light bar looks fantastic....

[danfrank]

I love seeing this build come along, it's so satisfying.

[AAchurch]

My 50$ front ebay very bright led set-up has been goood for just over a year with no problems, still like new. Came with lights, wiring and switch for in cab. I dont think I'd get fancy ones and be spend 10x to 20x more for not much different. Cool look though!

[richjoy]

I've two of these light bars on my 2015 ram 1500. Great looking and functional when they work. First one lasted 4 months the shop replaced it and now this isn't working. Shop says they've had several issues and on the phone with putco. They'll install another one but said it'll happen again

[ryanwolf]

That's install is major clean. Nice truck.

[Firefter]

That one is pretty sweet. I have the Opt-7 tailgate light bar and it’s pretty legit too. The yellow blinker light has a chasing sequential effect.