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VINELEN® ENGINEERING COMPANY INC. Route 145, Winthrop Road. Installation Guide Chester. Connecticut 06412 5000 Plus Gasket Retro-Fit Kit Internet: www.whelen.com Sales e-mail: Canadian Sales e-mail: • Customer Service e-mail: Safety First This document provides all the necessary information to allow your Whelen product to be properly and safely installed. Before beginning the installation and/or operation of your new product, the installation technician and operator must read this manual completely. Important information is contained heroin that could prevent serious injury or damage. Proper installation of this product requires the installer to have a good understanding of automotive electronics, systems and procedures. If mounting this product requires drilling holes, the installer MUST be sure that no vehicle components or other vital parts could be damaged by the drilling process. Check both sides of the mounting surface before drilling begins. Also de-burr any holes and remove any metal shards or remnants. Install grommets into all wire passage holes. If this product is mounted with tape or Velcro"", clean the mounting surface with a 50/50 mix of isopropyl alcohol and water and dry thoroughly. Do not install this product or route any wires in the deployment area of your air bag. Equipment mounted or located in the air bag deployment area will damage or reduce the effectiveness of the air bag, or become a projectile that could cause serious personal injury or death. Refer to your vehicle owners manual for the air bag deployment area. The User/Installer assumes full responsibility to determine proper mounting location, based on providing ultimate safety to all passengers inside the vehicle. For this product to operate at optimum efficiency. a good electrical connection to chassis ground must be made. The recommended procedure requires the product ground wire to be connected directly to the NEGATIVE (-) battery post. Automotive: If this product uses a remote device to activate or control this product, make sure that this control is located in an area that allows both the vehicle and the control to be operated safely in any driving condition. Do not attempt to activate or control this device in a hazardous driving situation. This product contains either strobe light(s), halogen light(s), high-intensity LEDs or a combination of these lights. Do not stare directly into these lights. Momentary blindness and/or eye damage could result. Use only soap and water to clean the outer lens. Use of other chemicals could result in premature lens cracking (crazing) and discoloration. Lenses in this condition have significantly reduced effectiveness and should be replaced immediately. Inspect and operate this product regularly to confirm its proper operation and mounting condition. Do not use a pressure washer to clean this product. It is recommended that these instructions be stored in a safe place and referred to when performing maintenance and/or reinstallation of this product. FAILURE TO FOLLOW THESE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS COULD RESULT IN DAMAGE TO THE PRODUCT OR VEHICLE AND/OR SERIOUS INJURY TO YOU AND YOUR PASSENGERS! O1995 Whalen Engineenng Company Inc Form No 13037 (042695) EFTA_R1_00170032 EFTA01809945  ATTENTION! The contents of this kit will vary, Extrusion Gasket (Fig. 2) depending on the serial number of the lightbar you own and whether or not you have added any new 1. Position the extrusion gasket along the bottom of lens' to replace the original factory lens'. Only the extrusion so it is flush with the leading edge of those lightbars whose serial numbers are from 244 the extrusion. Do not stretch or cut this gasket! through 312 will be receiving two, new lens'. If your 2. Once the precise mounting location has been lightbar's serial number does not fall into this area determined, the adhesive backing can now be but has had replacement lens' installed during the removed. month of November, 1994, through the month of 3. Re-position the gasket in it's mounting location and March, 1995 contact your Whelan representative to press firmly. Repeat procedure for the upper side receive the correct replacement lens' designed for of the extrusion this kit. Extrusion Plug (Fig. 2) Retro-Fit Procedure: 1. Apply silicone (user supplied) to the carriage bolt opening in the extrusion. Insert the Extrusion Plug Note: Remove endcaps, lens' and lens dividers into the extrusion as shown. before proceeding with this retro-fit. Re-Assembly Lens Divider Gaskets (Fig. 1) 1. You must spread the extrusion apart to slide the 1. Remove the existing gaskets from the lens lens' into their positions. Failure to do so will cause dividers. the extrusion gaskets to "roll" and will result in gasket failure and leakage. 2. Using a file (or other suitable device), remove the molded points shown in Fig.1. 2. If your lightbar has or will receive the new lens', contact Whelen Technical Support for proper 3. Position the new divider gasket loosely onto the installation, based on your specific lightbar. Be lens divider. sure to have your serial number ready when you 4. Align Groove "A" on the new gasket with Tongue call. "A" on the lens divider and press the new gasket into the lens divider as shown in the illustration below. Retro-Fit Kit Parts List (PIN! 01-0416281-00) 5. Now using Groove "B" and Tongue "B", repeat the cjtY DESCRIPTION PART NUMBER procedure shown in step 4. Again, press the new 16 DIVIDER GASKETS 38-0141721-00C gasket into the lens divider as shown in the illustration below. 2 EXTRUSION PLUGS 38-0221866-00C 2 EXTRUSION GASKETS 38-0316271-01C 6. With both hands, simultaneously press the gasket into the lens divider from Tongues "A" & "B" towards the middle of the divider. Fig. 1 Fig. 2 SILICONE THIS OPENING COMPLETELY TONGUE PI GROOVE PLUG Page 2 EFTELR1_00170033 EFTA01809946