Optronics LED Clearance or Side Marker Light - Submersible - 3 Diodes - Round - Red Lens

Video Transcript for Optronics LED Red Trailer Clearance and Side Marker Light Installation

Today on our equipment trailer, we'll be installing the Optronics LED trailer clearance and side marker light in a 2-1/2-inch round design in red color, part number MCL57RB, and we will also be installing the Optronics 2-1/2-inch round grommet for flush-mount lights, part number A55GB. Now, we're first going to need to remove the existing light. This existing one is actually an incandescent style bulb, and we're switching this trailer over to all LEDs. We'll first need to go ahead and pry the old light out of the rubber boot. To do that, we'll just use a flathead screwdriver and kind of work it around. Then, we'll need to unplug the 2-prong plug at the backside. Now, since this rubber grommet is a little torn up, we're going to go ahead and replace that as well. Now, you'll notice that there's a lip here, and this right here is what actually catches on the edge of the trailer here, so to install this, we'll go ahead and work it down in there like that.

You can see how the lip kind of pushes upward. You just have to keep working it all the way around to make sure that the edge of the lip slides into the groove all the way around on your grommet. Now to make the new light slide in a little bit easier, we found that if you take just a little bit of grease and just smear it around the edge right here, it'll make the light slide in a whole lot easier on this new grommet. Here's our new 2-1/2-inch red LED side marker clearance light. You'll notice it has a 2-prong design on the back again, so it's essentially exactly the same dimensions and everything that the incandescent bulb we just took was, but this one is LED, uses a lot less draw, and the light will last a lot longer. To install it, we'll just go ahead and take our plug. We'll need to plug these all the way in. You'll kind of feel them click into position.

That means that the plug is fully seated in the light. Now that we've got our plug in the backside of the light, before we actually put it back into the grommet, it's a good idea to test it and make sure that it's working fine. Now that we've tested it, we know that the light is working fine, we'll go ahead and put it on into the grommet. To do this, you'll just simply work it in along the edge, and by adding that grease that we did earlier, it makes the light slide into the grommet a lot easier. Now we have our light pushed all the way into the grommet, go ahead and just take a paper towel and wipe off any excess grease that may be on the grommet or on the light itself. Once it's pushed back in, we'll go ahead and test it one more time to make sure everything is good. That's all there is to it to installing the Optronics LED trailer clearance and side marker light in a 2-1/2-inch round design in red color, part number MCL57RB. .