Head Lights

[GBritt]

Can anyone tell me a simple way of making all 4 light burn on high beam. Or will this cause a problem? Thanx

 

[Sky]

Welcome

Hello and welcome to TDR, I cant answer your question but I was wondering where we can get the sport head lights for our trucks?

 

[ralphr]

brite box

Try Geno's "Brite Box", it will give you what your looking for. There is also a do it yourself involving relays from Radio Shack and some wiring, do a search and you should find what your looking for.

 

[EagleEye]

Headlights

Well, I have the Quad headlights. While in 'high beam' I have 6 filaments burning, and it does help.



What I did is went to my local auto parts store and got 2 plugs that fit the bulb. I took out 1 connector and added it to the quad beam that has only 2 leads making it a 3 lead plug. I patched in the added wire to the quad 'high beam' lead and that's it.



There are ways to make ALL 8 filaments burn but 6 was good for me.



Be careful with higher wattage bulbs. They can heat excessively and discolor the reflectors.



If you don't have the Quad headlights, there are other posts on the regular headlamp mods... just do a search.



Hope this helps.

 

[Bigramguy]

You should have no problems with all the filaments on with the standard wattage bulbs. With any higher wattage bulbs,it can melt the housing or cook the bulb. Be careful with just tying in the extra filament to the existing wiring,as the stock wiring and switch is meager at best. The brite box is a good option. Even better,make your own with a couple of relays and some heavier gauge wire. This will eliminate the extra load on the factory stuff,and eliminate any voltage drop. It makes a HUGE difference in light output when the bulbs get full voltage.

 

[redneckdr]

headlights

bigramguy:

i "fiddled" with my sport lights for ahile one day. it appears to me that dc used a switched ground on my truck, at least--01. 5 sport.

i'm fairly savvy about electricity, and don't fear working on it. tell me more about how you wire in the relays, etc. do you continue to use a switched ground, or convert it to switched pos, using the oem switch to trigger the relays???

thanx

 

[Bigramguy]

The relay setup is eactly the same regardless of headlamp setup. One for low beam,and one for high beam. Fed from the battery,through a circuit breaker,through relays to lamps,with a good size wire. Keep wires as short as possible and solder and heatshrink all connections.



The only difference is how you trigger the relays. On the older models. You use the power coming from the headlamp switch to power the trigger side of the relay,and ground the other side. On a switched ground system,you power the trigger side of the relay from the battery,and use the ground from the headlamp switch to trigger it.



This takes all the load off the headlamp switch,and you can wire it to light both high and low beams together,when the highbeams are on.

 

[redneckdr]

headlights

that's what i thought. the only thing you didn't add which is intuitive, is to ground the headlight end of the ground wire to complete the circuit. ( and with heavy wire, i might add. ) too many folks forget that that wire carries as much, and sometimes more, current than the hot side. if you have two lights on the same ground, but different supply sides, the ground should be at least one gauge heavier than the supply wire, if not two sizes heavier. i generally over wire rather than under. wire is cheaper than replacing a vehicle burned up from hot wires!!

thanx

 

[Bigramguy]

Yes,I did forget the ground side. If your going to run high\low beams together then stepping up the ground is important. I used an 8 GA ground. Regular 8 GA isn't very fexible,so I used the high end audio stuff,and it is much easier to make into a nice looking harness.

 

[Adam_Dodgezilla]

All four Light up on mine!!

Sky- heres the lights you want I ment to post on this topic earlier, but I started a new topic!!

well the sport head lights cost 197. 00 and the trun signal is 86. 00 this is off the list of new parts from my truck so I'm sure you could find them cheaper!!

 

[Adam_Dodgezilla]

Brights

one more this is with the brights