I just must be the dumbest person on the planet. Last night I tried wiring up my toyo tails. NO LUCK geting them to function properly. I followed the steps to the instructions that everyone has on wiring them up. The only thing is that I cut the white wire under the steering colum last.

PURE CHAOS!!!

Here's what happened. After wiring them up I put my foot on the brake and everthing lit up, amber bulbs as well as brake lights. So... Im thinking all I have to do is cut the white wire under the steering colum and everthing should work properly. WRONG!!! Both bulbs still light up and now when I'm driving if I apply the brake while using my turn signals the signal stops blinking and stays illuminated until I take my foot off the brake then it starts blinking again.

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!

what would I have to do to get the to work properly if I just run wire from the front turn signals to the rear does anyone know???

It sounds like you have 2 wires spliced into the same wire (brake and turn)... Here is a very rough sketch on how the wires should be hooked up.

The Toyo brakelight should be spliced off the highmount brake light.

make sure you cut the right wire under the column. its the white wire all the way on the left(looking at the harness from left to right) and is plugged into the wire harness that is DIRECTLY behind the hazard switch. ive done 4 sets of these tail lights and never had any problems wiring them up
if you want i can take a picture of what my wires look like so you can use them as a reference, cuz i know the instructions john lenko has , in the pics he has a bunch of other wires, like strobes and stuff like that, i dont have any of that stuff so it might help. email me and let me know.



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Thanks Guys Im going to try this agaim in the morning. We'll see what happens. I can reach you If I need help. Thanks so much!!!

The way I wired mine was.... black to black, brown to brown, colored wire to colored wire, and finally I ran two wire taps from the white wire leading to the 3rd brake light, to the white wires on each of the tails. They work as they should. The reason I wasn't specific with the colored wire is because i don't remember and different years have different colors from what i've learned.

Thanks again to everyone that helped me out on this project. I went out to work on them this morning and guess what??? THEY WORK and correctly too. I love you guys Thanks again!!!

-Jay Dubb

Where's the pics! I want to see them installed! I love Toyo tails...got to get a set one day.




Eh...old man with a Corvette now...it was bound to happen sooner rather than later right?

Hey Blue I'm so tempted to post pics but I dont want to post any until the car is is really done I'm still waiting for UPS to bring my ViS EVO hood and my R1 type-6 19" wheels. I want to suprize everyone on the org w/ a complete make over to the cav.

I finished doing the swap a couple of weeks ago but I wasn't as complex as cutting under the column and splicing them that way...

I had to figure it all out for myself. They didn't come with a wiring harness so I had to cannabalize one of a Chevy Van to get them to work.

I did mine a little differently as in I wired a double-bulb into the blinkers just like the brakelights have. I was able to splice half of it to the running lamps on the stock harness.

Then I just ran the lead for the second half of the bulb up to the front blinkers. When I have my lights on both the brake AND turn signal light are on. When I hit the brake, only the brakes light up, and when I hit the turn, BOTH the brake AND the signal light up. I'm the only car I've seen on the road with amber running lights in the back in addition to the reds, and when I checked with the local policia they said it was perfectly fine and didn't violate any laws.

But yeah, I bought the lights thinking it was a simple conversion and the wiring took me two days to figure out. But I am proud of my babies

WOW... that is sooo much more complex than it needed to be... I did mine in about 45 minutes... I just followed the instructions and didn't waste nearly as much time running wiring from the back to the front for each turn signal... of course I didn't wire the parklights to turn on the first element on the corners though... but you shouldn't have those running on the rear anyway... I can't think of a single vehicle with rear ambers that are on without the turn signals... I believe the reason is it will mess with peoples night vision in the dark...



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My lights didn't come with any instructions and I didn't discover this site till yesterday

Thats why I checked with local authorities to see if the ambers were an issue and they said they werent. If they do end up being one, 30 seconds with the wire-clippers will solve that issue.