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Cab lights on a k5?

CherryK5

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I know there will be some naysayers but i think it might look cool.

Does anyone have some pics of a k5 with cab lights?
I just want to see how it looks.

I tried my hand at searching ck5 but after 20 minutes or so i gave up.
 
Might try searching for dually k5s?

I think there have been some pics of a couple posted.

I for one am from the 80s and like clearance lights, although not from the midwest so the visors don't do much for me
 
blazinzuk said:
Might try searching for dually k5s?

I think there have been some pics of a couple posted.

I for one am from the 80s and like clearance lights, although not from the midwest so the visors don't do much for me
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X2 I love the cab lights but hate the visor's with a passion.
 
My friend had them on the roof of his K5. They were aftermarket though. I could be wrong, but I believe the factory only put them on certain 3/4 ton and 1 ton trucks.

You can drill the holes through your roof, to mount the lights and run the wires, but the wires will be visible inside, unless you have a headliner.

I have a truck with the factory running lights. The roof is two pieces, I guess you can call it an inner and an outer. The factory must have drilled the holes in the roof and ran the wiring to the lights BEFORE welding the roof pieces together. From inside the truck you can't see any evidence of the roof lights, the inner roof piece has no holes in it. If I remember correctly, the wires run inside the A pillar OR exit the inner roof through a little hole and run behind A pillar trim piece, down to the harness that plugs into the light switch.

Also, GM used the same roof lights from 67 to 87, and the 88-91 square bodies.
 
I removed the headliner in my K5 and it has the inner/outer roof panel. A p.o. installed either a CB antenna or I think one of those early style cell phone hard mounted antennas through the roof (remember those things?). Something must have hit it and it bent up the roof and made it leak, so I had to fix it and I just left the old, saggy, dirty, moldy headliner out and threw it away. Looks much better without it. But anyways, you could potentially drill the holes for the lights and wiring using a drill stop and then fish the wires down through the A-pillar.
 
X2 I love the cab lights but hate the visor's with a passion
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haha everbody over here in NL loves the sunvisors because off the "US look".... and most off you guys hate them...?!?!:rolleyes:

Sorry I've also got a visor with the 5 "home-made" orange LED's in it and I think it looks pretty cool.
Also fitted 4 work lights and a CB antenna on a "home made" stainless steal roof bar which I mounted on the rear viberclass top.
Now I'm working on a roof rack....:D
 
Not exactly fog lights, but also not the normal lightbar either :D
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i installed clearance lights under the lip of the lightbar as well, i also installed some red ones in the back of the truck above the doors.

Reason i did this, as i was driving down the highway following my Burb one night, (brother was driving) he would get out alittle further away, and the taillights just didn't seem real visable, the truck dissapeared, they were there, i just didn't like it, so i added those rear lights, one on each side corner, 3 in the middle, like a truck would have them. it made it more visable. ALso adding a 1156 bulb in the license plate socket, really brightens up the license plate :whistle:

Plus i'm a truck driver, i like my lights :D
 
496truck said:
I removed the headliner in my K5 and it has the inner/outer roof panel. A p.o. installed either a CB antenna or I think one of those early style cell phone hard mounted antennas through the roof (remember those things?). Something must have hit it and it bent up the roof and made it leak, so I had to fix it and I just left the old, saggy, dirty, moldy headliner out and threw it away. Looks much better without it. But anyways, you could potentially drill the holes for the lights and wiring using a drill stop and then fish the wires down through the A-pillar.
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The two layers are filled with expanding foam from when I bass raced my truck. So are the inner and outer fenders in the back. All for a couple tenths of a decibel. You should see my original shell. It was braced enough to keep it's form if I rolled. But it made it a pain to remove so I ditched that after I took the stereo out.

anyways. I would have to pull it through both layers and down the a pillar trim piece. I'm putting some secondskin on the roof anyways so that will cover it.
 
ChevyNL said:
haha everbody over here in NL loves the sunvisors because off the "US look".... and most off you guys hate them...?!?!:rolleyes:

Sorry I've also got a visor with the 5 "home-made" orange LED's in it and I think it looks pretty cool.
Also fitted 4 work lights and a CB antenna on a "home made" stainless steal roof bar which I mounted on the rear viberclass top.
Now I'm working on a roof rack....:D
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Sorry if this getting off topic, most guys here probably don't like the visors. Normally i dont like anything that is not functional, but I think they have their place on the right truck. I was in high school in the early to mid 90's when the visors were a new thing, and thought it was really cool at the time. I have one on a shelf, eventually I'll use it.

Today there's something much worse, clear tailights:dunno:
 
4xcrazy said:
Actually think the clear clearance lights look good, as long as they have amber bulbs in them.
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I dunno. I like the classic orange (or amber) ones. Unless it's going on a newer truck. Unless they were low pro and clear so they would blend with the white top during the day.
 
My K10 has factory cab lights, I think 2 or 3 have been smashed off though, by tree branches.

I still have the visor on my 89f-150 but I dont know if I will keep it when I do body work on it. that truck has the cab lights from the factory too.
 
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