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Corner/Marker lamps modification

From 1998 Ford Crown Victoria “EmbassyVic”, documented by Embassy Vic.

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1998 Ford Crown Victoria - For some strange reason, Ford decided not to use the front marker lamps as turn signals or as flashers. However, you can correct their erro… 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - Here you can see where I spliced into the turn signal wire and attached a new wire that will attach to the ground wire of the marker lamp. 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - Cut the ground (black wire) on the marker lamp and attach it to the wire that is spliced on the turn signal wire. 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - I wrapped up the new wire with wire loom and covered up the splice with a section of larger wire loom. Then I sealed up everything with ele… 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - Next, the marker lamp's ground wire is connected to the new wire from the turn signal. Be sure and cover up the other, unused end of the gr… 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - There is less room to run wiring on the driver's side. I ended up removing the Marauder Airbox so I could run the wire and it's wire loom i… 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - Here's a pic of the wire routing, viewed from the side. A screwdriver points to the new wire and it's loom. You can also see the cut and se… 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - Here's a pic of the wire routing, viewed from where the headlights are typically mounted. Again, a screwdriver points to the new wire and i… 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - Here's a video of this modification on Nell's Crown Vic. Please visit her site: http://www.crownvicsetc.com/Video 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - I replaced the tiny 194NA bulbs with the larger 916NA. Hopefully this will result in a brighter turn signal and flasher. 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - One more pic to show the difference in size. 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - I also replaced the amber 906 bulbs w/silver coated amber bulbs. 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - The tools required to replace the marker lamp bulbs. 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - Here's what the amber bulb looks like, installed. 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - A close-up of the soon-to-be replaced amber 906 bulb. 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - The silver lamp, installed. 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - The silver lamp is barely visble when not illuminated. 1998 Ford Crown Victoria - The cleaned up front end with silver 3457 turn signal bulbs and silver 906 marker lamp bulbs.