Changing early rear lights to later ones.

[youngcamper]

Hi All,

I am looking at the rear lights on my '63 car to later ones in order to get separate indicators, how much work is involved ? has anyone done it themselves ?

What do people do about indicators at the front ?

[rayofleamington]

there's a lot of ways to add orange indicators

one of the more tasteful ways is to add seperate indicators under the rear bumper. The later rear lights are a popular way but personally not my favourite - they just bolt on so it's not a lot of work.

I'm guessing your car has the combined flashing brakelights / sidelights. To seperate them it's a matter of removing the circuits from the rectangular relay box and running the indicators on their own dedicated circuits.

For the front you have lots of options again. My favourite is to fit orange bulbs to the sidelights and add Mini style headlights with integrated sidelights. This way the car looks as per original but you have a full compliment of seperate indicators & sidelights.

[youngcamper]

I hadn't thought of either of those.

I would be a little worried about people not seeing the indicators below the bumper , I presume in terms of wiring the lights up it would be the same what ever I did ?

I presume you mean fitting lights like these :

http://morrisminorspares.co.uk/shop/pro ... ffba0d2a09

I like the idea regarding side lights, I will be doing that for sure.

[rayofleamington]

those ones from ESM can be bought with the angle piece that makes them look better on the rear wings.

As for the indicators under the bumper - as long as they aren't obscured they are fine - the 20W flashing orange lights should be hard to miss. Yet another option for a Minor 1000 is to have some back up yellow LED's in the lower corners of the rear screen.

My 54 has a red striplight in the lower middle of rear screen for a high level brake light - I guess it helps remind people that I'm stopping, rather than just admire the rear of my car.

[daveyl]

You can buy from the same supplier an Orange flat glass as well . It's the same fitment to go on the front. I had domed glass indicaors on the rear of mine. Didn't like them at all. Anyway I got rid of them and instead fitted chrome ones (motorcycle) bolted on the valance. Looked good but not discrete (and chrome a bit crap, always need a polish!)
As has been pointed out, you can get small ones that fit under bumper I have seen these fitted and they were rather good. E-bay or halfords sell these. They are on stems, again fitted to motorcycles.

[youngcamper]

Cheers everyone,

I am not sure what to do about the rear lights but you've given me some things to mull over.

[rayofleamington]

one last idea for the melting pot.. if you plan to de-bumper the rear (ok, this may be a long shot!) then you can put indicators in the bumper mount holes ;-)