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So take the wire going to where the "brake" light would be and put the resistor between that and the black ground wire?
 
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I'm having issues loading images to this computer. The new LED tail has 4 wires from the light for the brake light alone. 2 black, 1 white, 1 red. Am cutting one of the blacks in 2 and putting the resistor in between? I'm sorry, I'm very visual, so not having a good video is screwing me. Anyone have a good link?
 

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I'm having issues loading images to this computer. The new LED tail has 4 wires from the light for the brake light alone. 2 black, 1 white, 1 red. Am cutting one of the blacks in 2 and putting the resistor in between? I'm sorry, I'm very visual, so not having a good video is screwing me. Anyone have a good link?
Don't cut any wires in two. And don't pay attention to the new lights wires. In your vehicle wiring harness there will be one wire that gets power when you step on the brakes. Don't cut it, use a "T" splice to attach one end of the resistor to it, then attach the other end to a ground point on the vehicle. I can take a picture this weekend if you want to wait.
 
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Ok so the ground point could be just wrapping the wire around a screw into the body?
 

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Yeah that's what I did- scraped a little paint off the metal inside the tail light area and put a screw in.
 
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Am i splicing into the ground wire of the brake light cable? there are 3 wires going into it
 

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Here's a link with pictures. If you're still confused, I'd suggest having someone do it for you. You can either go between the brake light wire and the ground wire like they did or go to the chassis for ground like I was talking about. It doesn't matter either way, as long as one end goes to the blue brake light wire and the other goes to ground.

http://www.tahoeyukonforum.com/thre...rking-when-installing-leds-tail-lights.55237/
 

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