Anyone Can Install Auxiliary Lights

Warn’s SBD series lights come complete with two lights, a pair of stone guards, a pre-wired harness with relays, and a switch control panel. It’s everything you need for a quick, easy, and quality installation.
Warn’s SBD series lights come complete with two lights, a pair of stone guards, a pre
Start off by disconnecting the negative terminal of your battery or batteries. Doing this will prevent any unexpected sparks while wiring the lights.
Start off by disconnecting the negative terminal of your battery or batteries. Doing this

To mount your lights, you need to select a location that will allow the lamp body to clear the fenders. Be sure to leave room for tow straps if you mount the lights near a tow hook like we did. Also, be sure you don’t block your turn-signal lamps. Warn cautions that installers should mount these lights upright, as there is a drain hole on the bottom of the light housing designed to let water escape. To mount these lights on a bumper all you would need to do is drill a 13/32-inch-diameter hole.
To mount your lights, you need to select a location that will allow the lamp body to clear
After the lights are mounted you will need to fit the harness. Begin installing the harness at the lights and work toward the battery. Be sure to mount the harness so that it is tucked out of the harm’s way. Typically, you can tie-wrap the light harness to an existing factory harness. Once the harness is routed up to the fenders, you can connect the light harness to the lights.
After the lights are mounted you will need to fit the harness. Begin installing the harnes

The light harness relays are connected to the wire harness and the relays are mounted in a suitable location on the inner fender or inside the framerail. Be sure to keep the relays and harness away from the exhaust manifolds. Also, avoid mounting the relays where battery acid might spill on them.
The light harness relays are connected to the wire harness and the relays are mounted in a
The small yellow trigger wire in the harness is connected to a power source. We elected to use the parking-light circuit so that the lights could be used without the need for the headlamps. The parking-lamp hot-wire was simple to find using a test lamp. We just turned on the parking lights and tested the two wires running out of the parking lights to locate the required wire. Note that the battery ground was temporarily reconnected for this operation and was removed before proceeding to the next step. You must also connect both of the black harness wires to a good ground on the vehicle. The ring terminals can be grounded to the body, but you must be sure to remove any paint to ensure a good contact.
The small yellow trigger wire in the harness is connected to a power source. We elected to

The final connection under the hood is to attach the larger yellow power wire to the positive terminal of the battery.
The final connection under the hood is to attach the larger yellow power wire to the posit
The switch panel should be mounted in an easy-to-reach location on the dash. Warn recommends mounting the unit with the two-sided tape provided in the kit. We elected to use hook-and-loop fastener tape so that the switch panel could be removed. This was because the mounting location is a removable panel and might need to be taken off one day to service our vehicle’s gauges. The system is set up so that the power button turns the lights on and off, and the mode button switches them between high- and low-beam.
The switch panel should be mounted in an easy-to-reach location on the dash. Warn recommen

An important step in installing lights is to get them correctly aligned. We’ve found that the best way to do this is to shine the lights on a large flat wall. First turn on the headlamp high-beams and then turn on the SDB high-beams. The new lights can be adjusted so that they complement the headlights rather than fight them. Be sure to drive the vehicle on a dark stretch of road to see if you need any final adjustments to the beam angle at long range. FW
An important step in installing lights is to get them correctly aligned. We’ve found

The headlights on your truck are fine for driving at night on city streets. But as soon as you head outside of the power grid of streetlights and neon signs, you begin to wish that your trucks lights were a little brighter. The Department of Transportation (DOT) regulates headlamp output so that drivers dont blind each other with super-bright headlamps. So theres a limit to the brightness you should shine onto paved roads. Off the highway, however, with no one to bother, you can, and probably should, use auxiliary lights.

One of the more interesting options in auxiliary lighting is the SDB (super driving beam) lights from Warn Industries. These lights offer you two lights in one package. They have a high and low beam just like the headlamps on your truck. Warn offers two different lights with the dual-beam feature, the SDB-160HB and the SDB-210HB. The main difference between the two is size. The reflector and lens on the 210 is 7 inches in diameter, while the 160 is a more compact 5¼ inches in diameter. While both lights use an H4 halogen bulb with a 100-watt high-beam and 90-watt low-beam rating, the larger reflector of the 210 light provides double the overall brightness and increases the lights maximum effective range. The SDB-160HB and SDB-210HB lights both provide a wide-beam pattern on low, and a narrower, but farther-reaching spot beam on high.

For our install, we selected a pair of the SDB-160HB lights. This was because the smaller size of these lights made them a better fit for our application. The brightness of these lamps is rated at an impressive 100,000 candle power. To us, these new lights seem twice as bright as our headlamp high-beams.

A great feature of the Warn SDB lights is that they come with a pre-wired harness. This harness makes installation easy. All one has to do is mount the lights, connect the harness to a battery, a ground, and a trigger source. Then plug the lights and switch module into the harness and youre done. Follow along as we show you just how simple it is to more than double your trucks light output.