Thanks OP for the tip. I had originally tried to salvage my heaps of junk to make two good lights from four. I was minimally successful, but it took more mylar tape than I found pleasing. In fact, I found the whole thing to be dis-satisfactory. I was also not excited about buying more new OEM lenses to break. I scored some cheap-o driving lights from O'reilly for less than twenty bucks. They had a little cheap-o relay kit too for about twelve bucks. Their website is useless, or I'd post a link. The lights came with some chintzy little brackets. At first I was skeptical. The brackets were very flimsy. They bolted right up, but stuck out a little bit too far. After a little bit of persuasion though, I think they fit just fine. And now, the increase in light output makes it possible to safely reverse at night. You can really see where you are going.
For the moment, I just wanted to get the thing inspected*, so I did the dumb lazy thing and connected them to the original wiring. I plan to add a power plug back there and run them the proper way with a little relay. Let's hope my reverse switch can take the abuse long enough for me to do that. I might add one of these
fuse blocks too.
* mission accomplished, passed without a second glance.
To hell with this junk
Much better
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