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Clearance Lights...again. You should check yours if you haven't.

Just replaced all my clearance lights with LED assemblies.  I did all 10 on the cap as well as the 4 on the sides with the same model clear lens/chrome plastic trim Chinee models I found on Amazon for dirt cheap, and the amber side turn signal assemblies with Peterbuilt style dual intensity units.  Chose the clear ones as the screw hole pattern closely matched the originals by a 1/16"...metric vs. standard on all the units except the amber high side clearance lights...had to drill new screw holes for those two only.

If you haven't taken your cap clearance lights off since you owned your coach, you might want to climb up on a ladder and take a couple off.  Mine were leaking profusely for a long, long time and mold was even growing behind a couple of them.  Foretravel used white silicone to seal and lock them in place, and it looks like only one of the units had ever been removed before today.  Some time before I bought the coach 2 years ago, someone had slathered silicone on the outside joints in an effort to stop the persistent leak from the light closest to the door...see the pictures of the 2 starboard most lights (where my leak was).  NOTHING adheres to cured silicone, not even silicone.  The cured silicone must be mechanically removed and cleaned profusely to reseal.  The original gasket of the light closest to the door was half gone and in the picture you can actually see the path that water poured into the cavity behind the lens.  Whenever I went through a truck wash, I'd need a few bath towels to mop up the waterfall that came down the windshield pillar by the door.  Mystery solved.

Added a lights on and lights off shot of the ambers.  The rears look the same except they are red when on.  FWIW....Woody.
2001 4010 U320 build #5865 "Bluto-d-Bus" since 09/18
2006 Honda Element ESP Toad
Full timing since 2016 in Western MT
Copilot: Sitka
1975 GMC 260 Avion: sold

Re: Clearance Lights...again. You should check yours if you haven't.

Reply #1 –
Like the lights, but not sure if white is legal.  Inquiring minds would like to know!
Joe & Dottie Allen
Sold!  December 2023.      2000 U320; build # 5645
Our coach " Maxine"
Motorcade #  15922;  Escapee 150950; FMCA F330833; Boondockers Welcome;  Harvest Hosts;  Thousand Trails
'98 U320 from 2000-'06
USAF '62-'66

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." ―Epicurus

Re: Clearance Lights...again. You should check yours if you haven't.

Reply #2 –
They're not white, they're amber.

Quote from: juicesqueezer –
Like the lights, but not sure if white is legal.  Inquiring minds would like to know!
2001 4010 U320 build #5865 "Bluto-d-Bus" since 09/18
2006 Honda Element ESP Toad
Full timing since 2016 in Western MT
Copilot: Sitka
1975 GMC 260 Avion: sold

Re: Clearance Lights...again. You should check yours if you haven't.

Reply #3 –
Photo 1561 shows them on and amber but in 1562 they are turned off and appear white.

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Pierce and Gaylie Stewart
'93 U300/36 WTBI
Detroit 6V-92TA Jake
1140 watts on the roof
SBFD (ret)

Re: Clearance Lights...again. You should check yours if you haven't.

Reply #4 –
Why Some Trucks Have Five Little Lights On The Roof
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Re: Clearance Lights...again. You should check yours if you haven't.

Reply #5 –
It's all a mystery to me, the guy down the road from me has a Peterbuild tractor with a 40ft frameless end dump. He ordered the tractor without clearance lights, it's been 14 yrs and no tickets, go figure?
88 Grand Villa 36' ORED 3208 (throwaway)Cat.
 Build # 3150
Happiness is the maximum agreement of reality and desire.

Re: Clearance Lights...again. You should check yours if you haven't.

Reply #6 –
Same lights I did, but I did the high center and the side marker also.

Clearance light up-grade
1999 40 ft. U-320 wtfe build 5563 Chuck & Lynda's "Rollin' Inn"  2030 watts solar
prev. mh's 71 GMC 5 yrs. 73 Pace Setter 1 yr. 78 Vogue 5 yrs 81 FTX 40ft all electric 18 yrs. 1996 Monaco Signature 3 yrs.
2014 Grand Cherokee Overland
Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today.  James Dean

Re: Clearance Lights...again. You should check yours if you haven't.

Reply #7 –
I run a beed of geo cel sealant across the top and down the sides of my clearance lights.. Everyone has their preferred product, what's important is run a beed of something that will turn water. I can make geocel where it isn't as visible and I know it turns water.. The lens are white on those lights but the lights themselves are colored appropriately. A number of truckers use them.
Dub McBride 1996 270

Re: Clearance Lights...again. You should check yours if you haven't.

Reply #8 –
If you have clearance lights they must operate or it is a motor vehicle violation.
Yes lights must be amber in front and red at the rear   
Those lights are a large motor vehicle requirement.
You will notice that a lot of trucks only have the bare minimum when it comes to clearance lights while others have them all over their truck, once you add lights they must operate and you can be ticketed by an zealous highway patrol officer of the added ones do not operate.
Keep it simple, don't add lights, colors correct, bulbs all nice and bright.
Safe driving!
David & Emma Roche
Dino (Golden Doodle)
1999 U270 WTFE 36' Build # 5534
Xtreme "Lights, Stripes & Roof"
Motorcade# 18321
Dayton, Ohio
Towd: Jeep Grand Cherokee
Two Townie Electra Bikes

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Re: Clearance Lights...again. You should check yours if you haven't.

Reply #9 –
Definitely run a bead of your preferred sealant around them.  I plan to replace mine at some point but when I gutted the overhead it was evident they were leaking.  One I could see daylight.  So I ran a bead around both fronts and backs until I can replace them.  I have WAY too many projects on the ole girl in concert at one time.  That will come later.
Luke & Sandy (still many work years to go...)
1999 U320 36 Build #5387
2013 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited
Previous 1997 Winnebago Vectra Grand Tour 35WQ major interior remodel
Previous several SOB trailers, Class C, fifth wheels.

Re: Clearance Lights...again. You should check yours if you haven't.

Reply #10 –
Quote from: coastalbuilder –
Definitely run a bead of your preferred sealant around them.  I plan to replace mine at some point but when I gutted the overhead it was evident they were leaking.  One I could see daylight.  So I ran a bead around both fronts and backs until I can replace them.  I have WAY too many projects on the ole girl in concert at one time.  That will come later.
Like the automobile saying "get a car built on Wed" not Fri. or Mon. my lights on the same year coach as yours had the front lights caulked and sealed from the inside and everything was dry as dust in the overhead.
1999 40 ft. U-320 wtfe build 5563 Chuck & Lynda's "Rollin' Inn"  2030 watts solar
prev. mh's 71 GMC 5 yrs. 73 Pace Setter 1 yr. 78 Vogue 5 yrs 81 FTX 40ft all electric 18 yrs. 1996 Monaco Signature 3 yrs.
2014 Grand Cherokee Overland
Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today.  James Dean

Re: Clearance Lights...again. You should check yours if you haven't.

Reply #11 –
Quote from: Pyolet –
They're not white, they're amber.

Woops!  Sorry!
Joe & Dottie Allen
Sold!  December 2023.      2000 U320; build # 5645
Our coach " Maxine"
Motorcade #  15922;  Escapee 150950; FMCA F330833; Boondockers Welcome;  Harvest Hosts;  Thousand Trails
'98 U320 from 2000-'06
USAF '62-'66

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." ―Epicurus

Re: Clearance Lights...again. You should check yours if you haven't.

Reply #12 –
I had the mystery dripping inside my coach near the passenger door. No idea where water was coming from.
Thank goodness, TWIG was there. He told me to recaulk the amber light.
Problem fixed.
LISTEN TO TWIG....he KNOWS stuff!!
Glenn and Amy Beinfest
2001 36' U320
#5812
2014 Honda CRV

No Whining on the YACHT