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Well, I finally pulled the trigger on replacing the taillights of my 2600RB. Back in January, I was looking for the post on the strip lighting that someone did and had zero luck finding it and accepted the challenge to take it upon myself after a lot of research.
in this mod I decided not to do any drilling in the walls or floorboard to run lights.
Pic 1-The only wiring that was run was the reverse light wire for both sides. Looking at the front of the camper it’s located on the left side underneath the frame in a junction box and it will be a yellow wire that’s most likely capped off. I connected two wires to that connection and ran them the length of the trailer and then split them at the back.
Pic 2-5. Cut the seal with a sharp edge to allow the tail light ring to pop off and then trim around the light edge. If you do not trim around the light edge it will tear your vinyl when pulling the light off. Pry the light away to expose the wiring.
Once I exposed the wiring I then started the process of making sure what wire did what. Once that was done I connected and soldered all connections then put wire caps on. It’s not a bad idea to pull some of the foam out of the wall around the hole to allow more room for a refit of all wires.
After I completed all connections I sealed everything back up. One thing I made sure to do was to drop the strip light wiring out of the bottom of each light.
All strip light wiring had shrink tubing on it to make sure it was properly covered.
To clean up the reverse wires so that they didn’t look like it was hanging everywhere. I used double-sided tape by cutting small strips and sticking the small wires against the trim seam all the way down until it went under the bumper. Once everything was in place I used a black sealer to seal everything including the light strips.
in this mod I decided not to do any drilling in the walls or floorboard to run lights.
Pic 1-The only wiring that was run was the reverse light wire for both sides. Looking at the front of the camper it’s located on the left side underneath the frame in a junction box and it will be a yellow wire that’s most likely capped off. I connected two wires to that connection and ran them the length of the trailer and then split them at the back.
Pic 2-5. Cut the seal with a sharp edge to allow the tail light ring to pop off and then trim around the light edge. If you do not trim around the light edge it will tear your vinyl when pulling the light off. Pry the light away to expose the wiring.
Once I exposed the wiring I then started the process of making sure what wire did what. Once that was done I connected and soldered all connections then put wire caps on. It’s not a bad idea to pull some of the foam out of the wall around the hole to allow more room for a refit of all wires.
After I completed all connections I sealed everything back up. One thing I made sure to do was to drop the strip light wiring out of the bottom of each light.
All strip light wiring had shrink tubing on it to make sure it was properly covered.
To clean up the reverse wires so that they didn’t look like it was hanging everywhere. I used double-sided tape by cutting small strips and sticking the small wires against the trim seam all the way down until it went under the bumper. Once everything was in place I used a black sealer to seal everything including the light strips.
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