So I need tailight for my 1982 4x4 but cant find them anywhere. also have 3 busted tailight housings from 1984 parts trucks. I am currently cutting rotted sockets from the 1982 and intend to use a dremmel to scavenge the mounting parts for the 1984 harness. the plugs are the same just need to rewire a little bit. i can post photos of how I am ding it if anyones interested. I plan on plastic welding the mounts in so the can be remved from the back like the 1984 sets do. them because i cant find lens seals I am gonna silicone the lenses to the housing permanently.

Donor Parts: ( A good Hoarder keeps everything, LOL)



Stripped down old housing and first set of removed bad sockets.


Donor part socket mounts removed with a dremel to be plastic welded onto housing.


Time to mark where to mark and grind out excess area inside donor ring on housing before plastic welding in place.

Marked the holes and dremeled them out.


Painted the inside to be more reflective with metallic chrome paint.



Gonna JB-Weld with marine grade, then onto sockets and rewiring pigtail plug. hopefully tommorow night I will be done.

I completed the pigtail harnesses. The 1984 tailight pigtail harnesses matched up perfectly along with the wiring. i jut had to add the 3rd socket, solder to the ground wire and add a blade pin to the plugs. It was fairly easy. I completed the JB Weld and test fit everything together. Installed and testd on the truck. They plugged right into existing connections and worked fine. I need to remove them to seal lenses on and make waterproof( and get photos woops). but for now they work and I need to drive the truck. hopefully I can get that done and posted soon.

So make sure to save stuff broken stuff for projects like this. parts are getting tougher to find and no one makes a suitable after tailight assembly for the 1980 -1982. Just my opinin and I tend to be a hoarder, lol.