By Wicked_Sludge

If your interested in "upgrading" your dome lights;

For 1993-1997 (and possibly other years, I don't know for sure), Ford had 3 different interior dome lights:

  • A single bulb, used in base model pickups just
  • A dual seedling, used in near standard cab pickups
  • A triple bulb used only in super cab pickups

The dual bulb and triple bulb fixtures use the same base and are wired into the trucks the same fashion. If you've got a dual seedling fixture, you can bandy in a triple bulb from a super cab and it volition function without changing anything electronically.

There is a plastic alignment tab that needs to be snipped off the dorsum of the super cab fixture in society for it to commodities up…but this is the only "modern" required.

I discovered all this later I bankrupt my dual bulb fixture while attempting to clean the map light switch (which I never use anyway). I figured I'd gild a triple bulb fixture to add a piffling more light to the inside of the truck.

Dual Beam Dome Light

Triple Beam Dome Lite

Above are the dual and triple beam fixtures. They are the aforementioned aside from a plastic tab on the back which is located in the "wrong" spot on the triple axle model. and of coarse the actress seedling socket.

Here is the triple beam dome lite with LED lights installed. The map lights are 194 replacements and the center is a 1watt LED map low-cal replacement.

Replacing A Unmarried Dome With Triple Dome:

It looks to me like the mounting area on the cab is near the same…..only the wiring is different. The dual and triple beam fixtures accept 2 wires (12v constant and 12v indicate from door/headlight switch) and a ground. The 12v betoken wire is attached to that empty squarish hole in the upper left corner of your cab.

It looks to me like you could bolt the triple beam fixture upwards, but yous wouldn't have use of the slider for turning on the dome lights individually (they would all iii come on when you lot opened the door). Y'all might too desire to install a plastic bullheaded nut in that empty pigsty so yous can apply all 3 screws to hold the larger fixture upwards.

You would have to add a constant 12v wire to be able to switch the lights on and off when the door is airtight or the dome light switch isn't on.

Parts:

The Ford role number for the (3) bulb fixture is F37Z-13776-B. Its $43.00-$63.00 depending on your dealer. For most people, you could probably get one from a savage k for about $ten.00.

The LED's I used are by a visitor chosen Varad: VARAD.COM

The office number for the 194 replacement LEDs (the map lights) is ALWP-WH (the "WH" at the end indicates white color, they come in a multifariousness of colors) and are nearly $10.00 for a pack of 2.

The part number for the festoon bulb (the dome light) is AL1W-WH (once again, WH denotes white, these come up in white or blue). these will run about $27.00 for one bulb "kit". LINK.

More Domelight Information:

From funkingonutz (forum member):

I put a dome light from a 2004 F-150 in my 1995 Ranger. Information technology is soooooo much brighter than the ranger one. The only modification I had to practice was to break off a little plastic "stick" on the back of it in social club for the dome light to sit flush against the headliner. All the wiring is the same. Just put the screws in and plough it on. The dome light from a Taurus too fits like a glove.

Dome is out of a 2004 Ford F serial (F-150 Heritage). In case your wondering, the center bulb is a blue led. The map lights are regular bulbs that came with the F-150

Bulb Upgrade:

From Crunchy (forum fellow member):

Go to autolumination.com, and become some of their super vivid xenon bulbs. I installed those in my dome light, and it is like daylight inside the cab at dark. I can't fifty-fifty look at the domelight.

From Jim Oaks (Forum Admin)

I swapped out my bulbs with Sylvania 194 LED bulbs. You can detect them at most parts stores.

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