If the tint is that spray-on crap you can just drop a Jackson on one of those 3M headlight restoration kits and sand it off.

 

Good buffing compund and good pad will do it also.

 

Yeah, I would do that but I believe the PO bought them off ebay, it isnt a DIY tint spray. I'd prefer to just replace them because I put Silverstar ultra bulbs in and it hasn't helped at all. The housing puts 2 straight lines of light down right in front of you and thats about it hahaha

 

I'm new here folks so I hope I'm in the right thread. Here's my story. My son traded a 94 Mitsubishi for a '98 Ram 4WD, swamper tires, 318. The truck has no O2's, no cat. Straight pipes. he put $1200 in engine tune up and chip. Ran OK for a while. Now bogs down, no HP, sucks gas. Code on chip keeps coming back O2's. One mechanic said it was timing. Another said he was positive it was the torque coverters and the transmission is bad. Truck starts and idles great. We've set the performance chip on all settings and does not help. Another piece of advise was to add O2's to the exhaust. He's heading to Afghanistan next month. He doesn't have the money to fix the truck. I would appreciate any advise.

 

$1200 for tune up and chip? He was taken to the cleaners on that.

For the computer to proerly control the engine, it needs data from all sensors, including the O2. Not having this, the computer will dump fuel.

I also suspect plenum is blown - bogging thing...

I'd pull the recveipt from the "tune up" and see what they charged. That amount is obscene. You could get a transmission rebuilt for that much!

 

let me help ya out here...

aftermarket headlights SUCK! the beam patterns are not focused nor spread enough..

stock headlights for non-sports suck as well. got that damn honeycomb to attempt to shine light through..

the brightest LEGAL lights you can put on the truck are factory sport headlights. they have clear lenses, and quad bulbs. low beams use the outer two bulbs, hi beams use all 4 bulbs.

HID's just blind everyone unless they are in a proper HID headlight housing.

if you don't mind a little custom hard work, you can take your existing headlights and retrofit acura TL projectors into them by putting them in an oven for a few minutes at around 300* i believe it was, which will heat up the glue enough to allow you to pull the lens off. then cut and glue the projector in place, re heat the glue and push it back together...PITA but then you can put HIDs in and have a proper beam pattern.

 

The sport lights sound great to me. I have a non sport model so is it a direct bolt up or some modification for mounting them is necessary? I can do the wiring no problem. Im guessing Craigslist and ebay are my best bet

 

OP nice looking truck. I don't feel like reading everything everyone else has posted, so good luck with everything! Good choice on buying a 5 speed

 

Well, finally worked something out! I purchased a set of OEM headlights for a mere $30 and damn, a 200% improvement over the tinted lights. Polished them up and threw in some Sylvania Ultras. I am very satisfied with the outcome. Also got some high output fogs. Thanks for all the advice! Do y'all know of any square offroad lights that will fit next to the fogs? I've been thinking about some Hella 550's.