New 3rd Brake Light

This is a pretty bright LED dont you think?

I bought this of EBay from a seller called scottlandyardspares and it is for a third brake light for a 97 and up S-10 Blazer and Jimmy. This is a new unit and i paid $40 plus shipping.

First of all everyone who owns a Delorean knows how low it sits and how invisible the rear brake lights can be to a much larger car or truck since most of them sit much higher than our Stainless beauty's.

I myself have wondered if my brake lights can be seen or if i just sit too low and maybe i will get forgotten by the car or truck stopped behind me until now.

I have decided to install a 3rd brake light on my Delorean. I ordered it from a seller on EBay. The seller normally uses this as the title for his EBay ad "HUMMER H2 Delorean Rear LED 3RD Third Brake Light S-10". He starts the auction at $38.99 and has a "Buy It Now" price of $39.99. The brake light is new and really bright if you hook it up the way i did.

I originally had the power for the 3rd brake light coming directly off the drivers side tail light harness but in doing that made the stock Delorean brake lights dim and the 3rd brake light was also too dim so i used a fused relay to get power directly off the battery and used the harness off the drivers side brake light to trigger the relay.

First off all i centered and mounted my 3rd brake light with stainless screws and nuts directly to the louver.

I did this for two reasons, #1 is because i wanted it permanent and #2 is because the 3rd brake light comes with a rubber gasket that makes it look nice.

I put blade type connectors on the wires just in case i ever have to remove the rear louver, notice i mismatched the connectors so they can only be connected one way.

I also covered the wires with electrical tape and use a plastic wire loom to protect them against the sharp stainless steel opening that i will be running the wires through.

As you see in this picture i used this tunnel built into the rear quarter panel to feed my wires down to the tail light harness.

I used a metal coat hanger to feed the wires down to make it easier as you can see in this picture with the wires electrical taped to the coat hanger.

I carefully pulled them through the quarter panel and they came out here in the drivers side tail light area.

Next i ran two wires (RED) battery feed and (YELLOW) brake light trigger for the relay from the interior with the rear interior wall removed.

I ran them through the grommet for the Engine cover release.

They went through the pontoon and connected the red wire to the red wire that goes to the 3rd brake light and the yellow wire got connected to the GREEN and PURPLE wire to the stock Delorean tail light harness. The BLACK and RED wire is the ground for the 3rd brake light and that gets connected to the BLACK wire that is a ground for the stock Delorean tail light harness.

Notice i drilled two holes for the (RED and YELLOW) wires to come through the pontoon because i didnt want to have them come out the grommet at the rear of the pontoon where the Engine Cover Release cable comes out and then goes into the rear closing panel, i wanted a clean looking installation so i chose to drill the holes but you can run the wires and follow the Engine Cover Release cable and come into the tail light area about 6 inches to the right and above the area of the pontoon i choose to come in from.

Now i buttoned up the rear of the car and moved into the interior. I took the Red and Yellow wire and taped it up about every 8 inches or so and routed it near the Delorean Relay compartment since this is where the new Brake Light Relay will be located. First i attached a 20amp inline fuse holder to my battery cut-off switch and routed it up in to the relay compartment.

Second i attached a Ground wire to the rear firewall Ground wire attachment location as you can see in this photo with all of the black wires attached to.

Third I put Female quick disconnect connectors on the RED Fused power from battery, BLACK Ground Wire, YELLOW Brake Trigger wire and the RED Battery feed to the 3rd brake light.

Now they all get attached to a Raido-Shack Relay part #275-226 i had purchased for this job. The RED Fused power from battery goes to number #87, the BLACK Ground Wire goes to #85, The YELLOW Brake Trigger wire goes to #86 and the RED Battery feed to the 3rd brake light goes to number #30/51. Now the package i had gotten from Radio Shack had the numbers 85 and 86 mixed up and labeled 86-ground pointing to 85 and 85-on off switch pointing to 86 Picture on the package, chances are your package might be the same if you use the same relay.

Your Relay with all of the wires attached will look like this.

Now wrap electrical tape really good around all of the connections, wires and relay and tuck it down into your relay compartment like this and you are done.

Now here is the finished product.

Now i used these self-adhesive Part#GKK-1538UVB from GB to stick on my Louver to hold the wires nicely.

Now any modifications you do to your own personal car is your responsibility. I am not responsible for any mistakes or damages you do to your car by using the instructions i have made for my custom 3rd Brake light installation i have done to my car. I will not be held liable for any damages done by you or someone else using these instructions.

Do all modifications at your own risk, i am not responsible for you or anyone else attempting this update.

Page #2 Battery cut-off switch modification
Page #3 Misc pictures
Page #4 New 3rd Brake Light
Page #5 Pictures of my old Mustang GT
Page #6 Pictures of my Delorean's Interior
before i owned it going through a restoration.
Page #7 New Vacuum Leak
Page #8 New Exhaust
Page #9 New Luggage Rack
Page #10 Delorean How To-Start inhibit safety switch instructions

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