If you're like me and sometimes have too much time off and a non-returnable spaghetti kit laying around for a few years, you tend to want to "do stuff".

So, while this is a bit more involved than hoping a DRL relay block falls into your lap so you can pop it in under the dash lid, it really wasn't all that bad. A couple of hours was all I needed to knock this out on the fly.

Anyway, the easy way to deal with the kit is to lay it out on your favorite bench in the Mancave and realize you don't have but a handful of longish wires to deal with. One is a ground and the parking brake wire--as I later find out--doesn't even matter! Now it's looking pretty nice.

So, you're outside with spaghetti, your crimp connectors (because you threw away that heat shrink junk on purpose), pliers, your headlamp and some dexterity...




Ground that bad boy first. Or just tolerate the module getting sorta' warm while you get up from making the last crimp and seeing the headlights flickering while you ground it. That's right in front next to the parking brake release.






Now that you are really digging in, adjust your shifter indicator pointer if you need to.




If you are following the enclosed chart, you're connecting the solid red on the kit to the solid yellow on the ignition harness. Then you dig further into some gummy decade-old tape and connect the Red/green on the kit to the Grey/yellow on the ignition harness while you are right there.




Next, you move over to the harness running down from the multi-function switch and tap the Red/black kit wire (only had one to deal with here...nice!) into the Red/yellow wire in the harness.




All the way over by the firewall in the corner you will find the brown wire (brown to brown...how cute!) for the parking lamp wire running off the main light switch. That took some careful hacking with the knife...more care than with the cabin air filter job. I did tap into the parking brake wire (light green/red, but not the one you see coming off the brake pedal switch!), but it doesn't do anything! Basically, it looks like I ended up with autolamps minus the sensor and the headlamp switch! But, it's there, so that's that. I complain not.





That is the kit tie-wrapped to some handle-looking piece in the corner. So far, so good.





Truck upon startup...any moment now...




Voila!


You're covered with this is you've got an E-van (97-03) and 97-02 Expys/Navs

There are a few wiring color differences for NBS 04-07 F150s, but the parking lamp and parking brake wires are the same, but that may cover the jist of it.

(In before, "Why don't you just turn on your headlights?"...mainly because I don't have to now.)