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Hey guys, it's Nick from F150LEDs.com. Today we're here with our ‘17 Ford F-150 Raptor and we’re going to be showing you how to make backing up much easier and much safer for you and those around you at night. We're going to be doing that by showing you how to install our Spartan Series CREE Reverse Bars right here under the Raptor bumper. They've got a full IP68 casing. They're fully blacked out, which makes them look excellent here underneath the Raptor. They're equipped with 12 CREE XTE 5 watt LEDs, so they are extremely bright and efficient. There's six that face directly back and three that are side facing on each side. This is going to give you a real even light spread so you can see to the left and right and not only directly back. These things are extremely easy to install. We're going to show you how it's done right now.
The first thing we need to do to get our Spartan series light here ready to mount to our Raptor's bumper is to take our custom Raptor bracket here. We're going to take our large diameter bolt with this lock washer and we're going to thread it through the top here of the bracket. Now for the driver's side, we're going to use one of these inner most holes. But for the passenger side, you're going to use the center hole here. We're going to go ahead and use the center. And then we're going to take our light unit and we're going to take one of the small nuts and there's these opening channels here. We're going to drop this nut directly into a channel just like so. You'll see it's kind of aligned there at the top and we're going to take our custom bracket and slide it into this opening channel.
And then take the smaller diameter bolt come directly from this side. And once you align it through the hole, you'll be able to take the Allen wrench and screw it down and it will connect here with the bolt that you inserted. So you can tighten that fully. And then we'll repeat the process for this side and we'll be able to mount the light directly to the truck.
We're going to be using two existing bolt holes here in the bumper of your truck. So it's a Torx 40 size bolt. There's one located here by the exhaust pipe on the passenger side and there's one located on the driver's side as well. Take your Torx 40 wrench and remove each bolt. With the Torx 40 bolt removed, it's going to be easy to replace it with our size 14 bolt here that's already mounted onto our custom bracket. So just directly replace it. It's going to go directly like this. You can use a size 14 wrench to come up underneath it and tighten the bolt to the frame.
It's hard to tell it from just standing behind the bumper of the Raptor, but the driver's side Raptors, actually the spacing is configured a little bit differently. That's why on the passenger side we use the center hole on the custom racket. But on the driver's side you want to make sure your bolt here is on the left hand side, inner most side of this bracket. Make sure your bolts there. Take the included spacers. We didn't need any on the passenger side, but on this driver's side we do. Again, because the configuration is a little bit different. After we get our bolt here on the innermost side with our spacers, we're going to install it again with our size 14 wrench exactly the same.
Now that we've got our bars mounted to the bumper, let's go ahead and connect them to our heavy duty braided harness here. You'll notice we have full IP68 heavy duty weatherproof connections here. The light end has the two male plugs. The female and has the two inserts. And also notice that there's a raised notch. Align that notch and then firmly press the two sides together. And then just bring this lock collar ring above the two weather seals and just tighten it all the way down. And this is going to give you a completely waterproof heavy duty connection here. And we'll that process for the other light. And then we'll connect the harness for power.
To power our Spartan reverse lights we're going to tap the same power source that supplies power to your reverse lights here in your tail light housing. In order to gain access to those wires, we need to remove this taillight housing from the truck. And, very easy to do so you just need to open your tailgate using a size eight socket, remove these two inner bolts here, and pull directly back. We're going to do that now.
With our two bolts removed, we're going to simply pull it directly back on this tail light housing. It's going to take some firm pressure, but it will pop loose. It's just kind of got some compression put in tabs there. Like so. And this will give us access to our taillight harness plug here. We're going to be using some of our quick splice connectors to tap the appropriate wires.
To make things easier, let's go ahead and disconnect this taillight assembly from the harness. Just push down on this tab here and pull directly back. Like so. And then one thing to notice, the harness, how to get it here, right? Well, there's an opening at the bottom of the truck that you can just push the harness directly up through and it will come out just like the harness that is already running out. You just run this one right alongside it, but push it up into this assembly. And then, it will give us our ground and power wires run through. Okay? This is what we're going to be using, these quick splice connectors to connect with to this harness.
Now again, on this truck we're going to be using the first pin and the fourth pin. Okay? Go ahead and run your thick red wire into the most side here of this quick splice connector. And then, we're going to just slide it directly over this first pin. I'm going to go ahead and use the fourth pin here. In this case it's a green and brown wire, so you just slide that into the channel opposite of this red one. And then we're going to use... You can use your pliers or whatever you have handy and apply some pressure directly down on the metal pin tab there. Make sure you've got a firm... And make sure it goes all the way through and that both wires are firmly connected like so. You can close this over.
Now we're going to do the same thing with our ground wire here. Let's go ahead and slide it in the innermost channel. Make sure it goes all the way through. It's going to go past this metal piece. Sometimes it'll kind of bump up against it. Okay? And now we're going to use this pin one wire, which in this case is black and yellow. Slide it right in there in this channel. And again, we're going to take our pliers and make sure nothing comes out. Press all the way down.
That's all there is to connecting our Spartan light harness here directly into our Ford Raptor's harness. Extremely easy. What we're going to go ahead and do is re-plug in our tail light and then we're going to go put it in reverse just to make sure that everything's connected right and our lights are lighting up.
That's all there is to installing the F150LEDs.com Spartan Series CREE Reverse Bars here on your ‘17 and up Ford Raptor. Extremely easy. It's going to definitely make backing up in the night much easier. It's going to make you and your family safer as well, because everyone around you is going to know when you're putting your truck into reverse. Highly recommend them. You can check them out at F150LEDs.com but you can also find all of our other great led lighting products for your Ford Raptor. We truly appreciate your support and look forward to seeing you there. Thanks guys.
