Hello everyone, I have and 86 pickup with a bed that is not salvageable, I need to take the bed off to repair the chassis, but I really want to avoid putting this rusted bed back on. My question is, do they make a kit to mount taillights ( to the existing wires) that can mount on (without welding preferably) to make it street legal. I have done a google search but I think I'm just not wording it correctly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If there are kits, a few links and price ranges would help out a lot.

Thanks for your time.

 

I doubt they make a kit for it but I have seen a lot of people make their own.
If you don't want to weld anything it is going to be very tough.

You could always just get some cheap trailer lights and zip tie them somewhere on the frame and splice the factory wiring back there for whatever light you're mounting.

Fink

 

just zip tie your old lights to the frame rail some how not pretty but its free

 

Go to princess auto or some equally terrible autoparts store and get some trailer tail lamps.

 

Run, say a 4x4 across and bolt on, the figure out how to mount lights.

 

get a new bed, you wont have any traction

 

Hardware store- uni-strut, threaded rod, nuts, washers etc., can of spray galv.
Cut the strut long enough to cross over the rear plus enough hanging off each side to hang the lights. Cut two more smaller pieces of strut and use the threaded rod, washers and nuts to 'clamp' the longer piece of strut to the frame.
Alternately, use 'beam clamps' a.k.a. 'angle adapters' to secure just the one piece of strut to the frame instead of the the smaller pieces, threaded rod, etc.
Spray the galv on the cut ends of the strut.
Attach the lights to the strut and wire it up... and maybe add mudflaps 'cause a lot of places require them if there are no fenders surrounding the wheels.

 

Under your bed there is some cross supports. I bolted one of them down in the very back of the frame,where there was some bolt holes already made, and then zip tied the lights to the cross support. I put some foam between the lights and cross support. It is not pretty, but it works until you get a new bed. I drove around for a week like that.