My Truck's Progress Thread
Legend
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From: Austin, TX
Yeah those are the aftermarkets.
With the stock housings they have the lines in them. I plan on buying black one piece ones, then they will have projectors put in them by the RetroShop. Jeremy does excellent work, so would rather just him mess with it. Also the projectors will take different bulbs than the stock, but you can use what you got just get the right bulb size for them.
Mine will be like these lights but black, and other custom touches
these are the housings I will use
Edit: will 15" rims fit on your truck I believe they changed the brakes around that time, so the smallest rim is 16s
With the stock housings they have the lines in them. I plan on buying black one piece ones, then they will have projectors put in them by the RetroShop. Jeremy does excellent work, so would rather just him mess with it. Also the projectors will take different bulbs than the stock, but you can use what you got just get the right bulb size for them.
Mine will be like these lights but black, and other custom touches
these are the housings I will use
Edit: will 15" rims fit on your truck I believe they changed the brakes around that time, so the smallest rim is 16s
I put black projector's on my Yota on Monday. Drove after dark for the first time tonight. They look good on a black truck in the daytime, but they suck. Low light output. Won't even eliminate truck shadow from street light behind truck. Coming back out this weekend. Hope the ones you are getting are better.
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Record Breaker
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From: Amarillo, Texas
Gdstock, did you buy those lights or did your retrofit them? I believe the OP's idea is to do exactly what a previous member here did, and retrofit a professional grade projector into a reflection housing. Google "The Retrofit Source" and youll have all the info you need.
Legend
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I put black projector's on my Yota on Monday. Drove after dark for the first time tonight. They look good on a black truck in the daytime, but they suck. Low light output. Won't even eliminate truck shadow from street light behind truck. Coming back out this weekend. Hope the ones you are getting are better.
Legend
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From: Austin, TX
lol. looks like you bought the cheap lights with fake projectors. i was told those cases would be good if i was planning on modding them and installing real projectors but crap otherwise. i was told to go with something like this if i wanted better good quality lights. i think there may also be silver star H6054 sealed beam lights that are suppose to be brighter than stock.
The one on the right worked very well - brighter than the OEM sealed beams. Needed to change as a rock chip cracked one and it started getting crappy inside. The black one appears to have a thinner lens in the projector. I was thinking of looking at HID on Ram, but so many members seem to have problems with them. Can't really take time to experiment on Yota as its my DD. The ones you linked probably won't fit - Yota changed things between 95 and 96 (mine's a 96). I'll put the ones back in that I just took out for now and do some looking for Ram as well.
Thanks for the links.
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Joined: Feb 2012
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From: Cincinnati
got my 2.5" leveling kit in today. will take some before and after shots for you all when i put it on
but first.. will i need a spring compressor? or just take the bolts off, lift it up, put spacer on, then bolt it back?
but first.. will i need a spring compressor? or just take the bolts off, lift it up, put spacer on, then bolt it back?
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Might be a clue to check out the tons of other threads that talk about it.
I actually guarantee you that there are threads.
I actually guarantee you that there are threads.