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Sport Headlight conversion, bought 2 NOS passenger housings, no longer available, along with a TYC aftermarket driver's side. Replaced the housings I took off of my 2000 Sport 1500. Had to cut the fender of my '95 to fit them.
30A Hella relays, now made by the People's Puppets of China, sad. Note that the coil wires of the Hellas are the same size as the LOAD wires of the EBay/Scamazon shilled cheap relays. Load wires for the Hellas, 12ga. with a weather tight connection.
The ceramic headlight connectors also 12ga.wired. What is the point of the Amazon shilled ceramic headlight connectors if they use 20ga. wires? I threw them away, went with Innova.
12ga. grounds, one on each end of the harness. Battery ground on driver's side. Only difficult part sorting out and splicing in the switch wires to power the relays. Ended up wrapping the the harness in cloth tape. If you wanted, you could also power the 'low' beam on the 9004, I capped it off. Pattern would be scattered as the 9004 center light is 'hi' only
Shrink/solder connectors are excellent for this kind of work. Amazon comes through for this one.
Hella 9004 100W high beam.
GE 9007 Nighthawk Platinum high/low, no longer made, but still around. Now marketed under Tungsram/GE. Best I have found. No light sucking 'blue' stupidity. Bought couple different Sylvania, Osram +50 in the past. No compare. Somewhat short life, like most high output bulbs, only drawback. I bought 20 NHPs, dirt cheap on closeout. Run them in my '95 and '03.
Hella parts: RallyLights.com or maybe Scamazon.
Solder/shrink connectors: Amazon
Ceramic 9007/9004 connectors: Innova Design, HeadLightPlugs.com, InnovaDD.com
You are the man! Thanks for the info. I am slowly putting together a parts list from this to make a set for myself.
Originally Posted by Ozark_bear
I definitely just read through this whole thread and took notes as I am also working on rebuilding a grandpa truck
Hey I just read through your build. Nice truck, we almost have some matching dents. lol. Looks like you got a solid build ahead of you. Can’t wait to see it and get more inspiration for myself.
Hey guys. Hope everyone had a good Christmas and the new years looking good! My baby bonding time ended so I’m back at work now. Between catching up after two months off, the newborn at home and the holidays I haven’t had much time to work on the ram. As I mentioned, I am getting part numbers to make my own headlight relay system. I also got everything to do the cap, rotor and spark plugs, along with the diff gear oil and transfer case fluid. I may try and do as much of that I can this weekend, weather and children permitting.
Hey Everyone. Not a lot of progress on the to
do list but it grows. We had a pretty heavy rain storm a couple weeks back. I didn’t think anything of it. Saturday I go to take the truck on a quick home
depot run and am hit with a musty dirt smell as soon as I open the door. Mold! The front seat is fine but the rear seat had become a Petri dish. I hit the seat with some color safe bleach and after drying out overnight with the windows down I hit the seat with my wife’s little carpet shampooer. A little digging it appears my third brake light has a leak. I have a new gasket on order but plan to silicone the heck out of it when it gets here. Hoping I can beat the rain storm this weekend or I’m going to have to put a tarp over the roof.
The wife has me getting into an early spring cleaning. I foresee many dump and goodwill runs to try and free up some room. Our 1080sq ft home is getting a bit cramped with 2 kids now.
Hey Everyone. Not a lot of progress on the to
do list but it grows. We had a pretty heavy rain storm a couple weeks back. I didn’t think anything of it. Saturday I go to take the truck on a quick home
depot run and am hit with a musty dirt smell as soon as I open the door. Mold! The front seat is fine but the rear seat had become a Petri dish. I hit the seat with some color safe bleach and after drying out overnight with the windows down I hit the seat with my wife’s little carpet shampooer. A little digging it appears my third brake light has a leak. I have a new gasket on order but plan to silicone the heck out of it when it gets here. Hoping I can beat the rain storm this weekend or I’m going to have to put a tarp over the roof.
The wife has me getting into an early spring cleaning. I foresee many dump and goodwill runs to try and free up some room. Our 1080sq ft home is getting a bit cramped with 2 kids now.
Kids will do that for you.
I have found though, that regardless of how much space you have, things accumulate to fill the space available.
Hey everyone. Been a while since I last update. I’ve been busy with my son’s baseball and flag football teams. I have a 2 month sport break now.
Yesterday I went to drive the truck around the block. I hear a pop and my driver side seatbelt went slack. It now will not retract. Anyone have this happen before? Looking around online I see there’s some posts about removing a solenoid in the retractor assembly, but that seems to be more if the belt won’t extend, not retract. I did some looking and I can’t seem to find a replacement driver side seatbelt for the quad cab anywhere. Anyone have any suggestions where I can shop? Or should I just consider a whole new seat from the junkyard?
Hey everyone. Been a while since I last update. I’ve been busy with my son’s baseball and flag football teams. I have a 2 month sport break now.
Yesterday I went to drive the truck around the block. I hear a pop and my driver side seatbelt went slack. It now will not retract. Anyone have this happen before? Looking around online I see there’s some posts about removing a solenoid in the retractor assembly, but that seems to be more if the belt won’t extend, not retract. I did some looking and I can’t seem to find a replacement driver side seatbelt for the quad cab anywhere. Anyone have any suggestions where I can shop? Or should I just consider a whole new seat from the junkyard?
I wonder if the pyrotechnic charge went off in your seat belt. When I let the kid have my old Ford Focus, she ran into the back of a brand new car being taken home for the first time. The air bags didn't go off but the seat belts did. The charge is designed to tighten the belt and work with the ir bag in a big crash. A small crash will just set the seat belt off. Good thing since new bags are NOT cheap and salvage yards won't sell you a used one.
Is your air bag light lit? I think I sent my belt retractors and air bag module off to "Myairbags" or something similar. They rebuilt the belts and reset the module. If the ir bag light isn't lit, you might get by with just the belt rebuilt.
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