etrailer | Truck Bed Cargo Camera Installation - 2017 Ford F-250 Super Duty

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Speaker 1: Today on our 2017 Ford F250 Super Duty, we're going to be installing a truck bed cargo camera, part number 3460001. This camera's going to give you an alternate view when backing up behind you. So if you've got a trailer behind you, the one that's currently installed, it's pointed down at your hitch and will likely be blocked by your trailer. Well with the flick of a button, you can switch to your other view, which is going to give you a more wide birds eye type of view so you can see more around you and also more of your trailer.Now there is a switch that comes included with your kit, however, we decided to opt ours to install into one of the factory auxiliary switches. So on our Super Duty here, this is where your factory camera's going to be located. And our camera as you can see is underneath of our third brake lamp there.

The camera housing's an entire bezel that's going to mount behind your factory third brake lamp. And it provides you with a nice nuzzled and factory looking camera just below it.Now if you're comparing this to other types of factory mounted backup cameras. What's really stands out about this one, is the way that it taps into your factory wiring, so that way it's very clean and factory feel once you're done. And those other ones, even the wireless ones don't seem to operate as well. This one being hardwired in is going to be reliable every time.And one of the main features that this could be used for is hooking up to a fifth wheel or gooseneck.

You have to lower your tailgate typically when backing up to one of those. And when you do that, that camera that's back there in the tailgate's aiming straight at the ground. With the flick of a button, you can now see in your bed and make a nice quick easy connection with no worries of having any contact with your trailer.We'll begin by removing our center high mounted stop lamp. There's four screws that hold this in. You're going to remove those with a T15 Torx socket.

You can now pull your assembly off. We're going to unplug it from the back by releasing the small tabs. And then we'll use our trim panel remover tool to separate push pin from our third brake light assembly. Just stick it between there and gently pry the push pin out of your brake lamp out of your camera. We'll now set our light aside.Now in order to get our camera bezel to fit, our Ford factory third brake lamp assembly we are going to have to make some modifications to it.

We'll now have to cut some of the sections out here in order for it to clear our LED section. We've already marked the areas we're going to need to cut out. We're just going to use a pair of tin snips to do that. Now that you've notched it out, we can set it back on there and verify that it fits nice and flush. As you can see, it sits down all the way around now.Your wiring for your camera's going to poke up through that small notch there. So that's going to be in the center. We're then going to take our wiring and feed it down the center here and we'll just set this up on top of here for now. And we need to feed this to the inside. After you've got some of it fed inside, it's probably best off to go inside the vehicle and continue pulling it through.You'll now want to reach up above your headliner here, feel for your wiring. Once you find it, we're going to pull it down. We'll now feed it in. We'll now reinstall our lamp assembly. Now there is foam strips that come with the kit. However, it does recommend that you use butyl tape especially on Ford vehicle as Ford also recommends that when resealing your third brake lamp you should use butyl tape. So we got some butyl tape here. We're going to be placing that around the inner edge. Once you've got the outer perimeter covered in your butyl tape, you can reinstall your third brake lamp assembly. Make sure that you plug your connector back in. And you don't want to press too hard when doing this because you don't want the butyl tape to stick just yet.Now you will need to get some larger screws to reinstall your assembly here. You'll need roughly a two inch length screw in order for it to go through your factory light assembly and the new camera extension that goes behind it. You can pick these up at your local hardware store. Now you don't want to over tighten those as it can crack the plastic. You just want it to be snug, so that way it's squeezing out that butyl tape. We'll then go back and clean all this up with a little razor knife just to make it look nicer.Now we're going to take the wiring we have here and we're going to work it along the headliner, all the w