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Found some rear lights for my D160

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Petes Horse

I've been looking for a while. The bolt holes just line up and the wire is a little tight between the fender and light. No drilling though.

They were at Rural King. I think about three bucks each. Optronics MC42RS RED  Marker/Clearance.

 

 

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Sarge

I'd suggest soldering a separate ground wire to one of the grounding straps in those lamps - they will corrode around the rivets and lose the ground in pretty short order from humidity  . Scrape a small area , apply some flux and have at it with a good hot iron , but do it quickly to avoid melting the housing .

 

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Pollack Pete

Nice lights.I've been buying similar looking LED's on that popular inter-net auction site.

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Sarge

I've replaced the missing lamps on the D-180 with led units from a local trailer supply - they are nice and bright . The hard ones are the small recessed lamps on the front side of the rear fenders - I have yet to find an aftermarket replacement and may just use a generic surface mount lamp instead . I work a lot at night with my tractors - especially in the winter and prefer not to get hit again by a car in the dark , the lights on the front of the tractor were on but the driver didn't realize the distance to what was making that area light up . Didn't get hurt and the tractor just got one bent rear wheel but I'd rather not do that again . Plan to build an overhead bar and add my flood lamps there , along with flashing safety lamps to the D for night work .

 

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