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What is the CORRECT bulbs for my 53, 3600. Might seam like a funny question, but the LED's are expensive, and there's Chinese in there now.Are they 1156 or 1157?

Original?
Aftermarket?
One bulb?

2 bulbs?
12v?
6v?

Sorry,After market, 6 volts, 2 bulbs. Thanks Paul

From the book, original 6 volt tail lights: 63

http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/d...h_N1180_-1_-1&pt=N1180&ppt=C0010

Stop lights: 1129

http://www.autozone.com/autozone/pa...cjcq?itemIdentifier=965001_682315_19345_

My aftermarket sockets that I'm not using anymor also take the #63

The #81 is the exact same size as the #63 and twice the candle power (6cp vs 3cp).

Bulb, bulbs, bulbs.
Every incandescent at the hardware stores is being replced by
LED now days and it's only a matter of time before we see a
complete change over for our old truck light bulbs.

I've seen a bunch of different sites that list LED's but haven't
been able to find one that gives a direct cross over to replace
the incandescent, like the 63, 81, 1129. How does the candle
power stack up to the incandescent?
If you use an 81 to replace a 63 Richard, and it's twice as
bright then wouldn't it be about as bright as the stop light and
would you be able to see the stoplight when applied???

And what sort of problems are you going to run into with your
turn signals if replacing the incandescent with an LED???
It would be nice to see all this info pulled together into some
sort of logical order.

Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL

My adventure with LEDs:

https://www.stovebolt.com/ubbthread...in=148008&Number=1001146#Post1001146

I'm quite happy with the results.

Excellent info for the 6v system
Thanks

I've read online that if you have red lenses you should go with red bulbs, but with that license plate lens that's not practical.

Any white out issues with the tail/stop lights?

No real problem with white out. There is some white light leakage around the edge of the bezel but it is minor. The brake lights are bright and red when they come on and quite obvious to following motorists as being brake lights. Much better than the stock bulbs that were barely visable during the day.

Yes

I'm definetly in the led camp.
I'm 12v and we have better options with the leds in the lenses

Not even close. If you use the #1129 as the stop light you'll have 8cp + 21cp for a total of 29cp for the brake light when you have the lights on. 21cp when you don't have them on. When the headlights are on and you apply the brakes the tail light filament stays lit.



Only if you have your eyes open.

For reference, the 6v LED bulbs I used are rated at 100 lumen which is around 8cp per bulb.