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Fitting NAS/Wolf Lamps. They're alot bigger and brighter than the standard fitments AMR6526 Tail/Brake Light AMR6527 Indicator AMR6528 Reverse/Side Light AMR3850 Light Bezel I bought mine from Gary at The 4X4 Store - Exeter who where the cheapest by far.
The units come as a housing, bulb holder and mounting plinth/bezel
If you Have a younger model than a 300 Tdi you'll need to make up new connectors that come in a double and triple pin style and are available from Vehicle Wiring Products A built up Double connector for Indicators, Side Lights/ Reverse Lamp:
A built up Triple connector for the Tail / Brake Lamp:
Once you've made up your 12 connectors your ready to fit them.
All Done and ready to be fitted:
Fitting To the Front Before you start best get some tools together you'll need: Blu-tack, a fine tipped marker, tape measure, half round file, some of the light bases, Clamps, a straight edge, A jigsaw( i found this was the best thing for the job), A Drill and if you don't want to mark and draw on your body panels some masking tape.
To make the N.A.S. Lamps fit the holes will need to be enlarged.
Position the plinths where you want the lights to sit and make sure the distances are all equal around the outside and on both sides to mark them the best thing is a soft white pencil or a chalk pencil.
Below you can see how much you need to remove, you can use a half round file or a jigsaw for the larger bits depending on how confident you feel about attacking your panels with power tools.
The top one has been enlarged just the bottom one to do now.
The lights trial fitted the holes will need to be drilled for fixing the bases. Holes Drilled for the lights and all bolted in place.
Rear Lamps The top lamps are the easy ones to fit offer them up to the original holes and they'll sit out over the edge of the tub so bring them in a bit until they're in line with the curve of the tub and mark them for trimming with a marker. The bottom ones are a little more tricky. I used a straight edge to get them all in a straight line right across the bottom of the tub.
When you've got your straight edge in the right place draw a line for the top of the lights.
Mark the outside one buy using the blu-tack method to hold it in the right place while you draw your section to be removed.
Using the Straight line you marked earlier you'll need to work out the spacing if you want to fit two or three lamps. And then mark it up and you did above double checking your measurements.
Then cut it out with a jigsaw drilling a hole first to get the blade in
All the plinths in place after trimming and cutting
Rear lights fitted
Finished front lamps:
Wiring the lights up For the NAS lamps, as the bulb holder bits are the same as for the 'normal' post-95 lights, they should be what I've put next to the colours below (info from the RAVE CD). The bulb holder terminals (pins) should be labelled 1 and 2 (and 3 for stop/side lights), if they're not then either look at the diagrams below which would match the harness plugs, or if you can't make sense of those, look inside the bulb holder and see where the earth (terminal at the side) goes - this is always pin 1.
You could also look inside the bulb holder part of each lamp and see which pins the earth and the power connections go to (obviously there are two 12v connections on the brake/side lights).
The wire colours and connector pins, according to the RAVE CD circuit diagram, should be (for a 300Tdi, as that's the oldest I've got, but should be the same):
BLACK: Earth (Pin 1) GREEN/BROWN: Reverse (Pin 2) (on the 2002 Defender this changed for WHITE for RH Drive, SLATE for LH Drive, oddly) GREY/PURPLE: Brake Light (Pin 2) RED/ORANGE: Side Light Right Hand Side (Pin 2 on front, 3 on rear) RED/BLACK: Side Light Left Hand Side (Pin 2 on front, 3 on rear) RED/YELLOW: Fog Light (Pin 2) GREEN/WHITE: Indicator Right Hand Side (Pin 2) GREEN/RED: Indicator Left Hand Side (Pin 2)
If you do what I did and have 4 rear side lights and use one pair for brake lights and one pair for foglights, then you'll still use Pin 2 on the 3-pin bulb holder, as this is for the 21W part of the bulb, and connect pin 3 to the sidelight feed.
Obviously it doesn't really matter for the single filament bulbs if you connect up the Pins back to front, except that LED bulbs won't work as the polarity will be incorrect, but for normal bulbs it doesn't matter. But it might be worth getting it right so that you could use LED bulbs at some stage. Cheers to Martin L of web-rover.co.uk for some the above instructions. instructions. |
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