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As far as the wiring goes, I would suggest one improvement. Take the power for the relay from the high beam side of your wiring harness. That does two things, one it turns your lights on and off with the stock lights, and all your high power lights go off when you put your stock lights on low beam. Much easier to use on the road.
On the issue of lights, and from your picture looks like you might take our off roading seriously, your long range lights need to be as high as possible. I always liked them on a light bar either on the cab or the bed so that they are above the cab. You can get another set for lighting up behind you and mount them on the bar too.
Secondly get a set of fog lights and mount them as low as possible but still protected. They give you tremendous up close and to the side vision.
Keep the shiny side up
On the issue of lights, and from your picture looks like you might take our off roading seriously, your long range lights need to be as high as possible. I always liked them on a light bar either on the cab or the bed so that they are above the cab. You can get another set for lighting up behind you and mount them on the bar too.
Secondly get a set of fog lights and mount them as low as possible but still protected. They give you tremendous up close and to the side vision.
Keep the shiny side up
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ORIGINAL: Grizzly
As far as the wiring goes, I would suggest one improvement. Take the power for the relay from the high beam side of your wiring harness. That does two things, one it turns your lights on and off with the stock lights, and all your high power lights go off when you put your stock lights on low beam. Much easier to use on the road.
As far as the wiring goes, I would suggest one improvement. Take the power for the relay from the high beam side of your wiring harness. That does two things, one it turns your lights on and off with the stock lights, and all your high power lights go off when you put your stock lights on low beam. Much easier to use on the road.
the outher thing is if you wanna be able to use them on the road dont mount them on your cab or above you will get a nice big ticket if you get caught with them even uncovered on the road not to mention you wont have many frends on the road i think the magic number is 48 inches (depending on where you live) thats how high off the ground you can have lights
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ok. ill leave that up to the off roadin shop. anyways i have a question that isnt about my off roadin lights. today after school my buddy had left the headlights in his bronco on all day. naturally his batter died. my friend tried to jump it from his jeep. they had the jump cables hooked up correctly, but then some MORON (for absolutely no explicable reason) switched the two cables on the bronco, putting a positive on a negative. immediately there was some smoke coming from some other wires under the hood. now the three of us know decent amounts about offroading but none of us know anything about electricity. im not really askin what wire burnt, but is it possible that something was really screwd up? the truck eventually started up.... im just wonderin how serious mixing up the cables can be? (i know its kind of off topic in this thread- but yall seem to know the electrical stuff well)
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well if you hook up batts backwards to boost and nither vehicles are running your usally ok (as long as you dont try to start it) if anything you may heat up your grounds/melt them depending on how long there hooked (could be what was smoking) and you can also f-up your batt, that sed electricty is unpredictable what happens one time may not hapen anouther hooking up cables wrong can cook stuff (bassicaly anything eletritic) but usally duzent happen unless the vehicles are running or tryed to start
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ORIGINAL: ryans590
NOOO dont do that if you want them to run on high beam run the power wire for the SWITCH not the RELAY from the highbeam the lights can take upto 30 amps or more if you get really big ones it takes less than an amp to switch a realy if you run your power from your headlights to the realy you will do 1 of 3 things 1, blow the fuse (if your lucky and hopfually you dont try uping it to a bigger fuse) 2, you will melt your wirring 3, you will fry your headlight switch or worst all could happen run your power for the relay from the battrey only with an inline fuse YOUR HEAD LIGHTS CANT HANDLE THE LOAD!! ive seen too many pepole cook there trucks because of bad wirring
the outher thing is if you wanna be able to use them on the road dont mount them on your cab or above you will get a nice big ticket if you get caught with them even uncovered on the road not to mention you wont have many frends on the road i think the magic number is 48 inches (depending on where you live) thats how high off the ground you can have lights
ORIGINAL: Grizzly
As far as the wiring goes, I would suggest one improvement. Take the power for the relay from the high beam side of your wiring harness. That does two things, one it turns your lights on and off with the stock lights, and all your high power lights go off when you put your stock lights on low beam. Much easier to use on the road.
As far as the wiring goes, I would suggest one improvement. Take the power for the relay from the high beam side of your wiring harness. That does two things, one it turns your lights on and off with the stock lights, and all your high power lights go off when you put your stock lights on low beam. Much easier to use on the road.
the outher thing is if you wanna be able to use them on the road dont mount them on your cab or above you will get a nice big ticket if you get caught with them even uncovered on the road not to mention you wont have many frends on the road i think the magic number is 48 inches (depending on where you live) thats how high off the ground you can have lights
The 48" rule has a lot to do with how high you can lift a truck. That's the fedral limit for the headlights. That's why you will see some trucks with the headlights covered over and another set of lights mounted lower that are actually the headlights.
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ORIGINAL: Grizzly
I thought I was very clear, power for the relay, not power for the lights. No one is going to give you a ticket for having lights uncovered. Look around you. Put my first set of roof mounted lights on a 61 Scout forty years ago and never got a ticket. I was also careful I didn't blind anyone either. Pennsylvania is fairly strict with safety inspections and I never had a problem.
The 48" rule has a lot to do with how high you can lift a truck. That's the fedral limit for the headlights. That's why you will see some trucks with the headlights covered over and another set of lights mounted lower that are actually the headlights.
ORIGINAL: ryans590
NOOO dont do that if you want them to run on high beam run the power wire for the SWITCH not the RELAY from the highbeam the lights can take upto 30 amps or more if you get really big ones it takes less than an amp to switch a realy if you run your power from your headlights to the realy you will do 1 of 3 things 1, blow the fuse (if your lucky and hopfually you dont try uping it to a bigger fuse) 2, you will melt your wirring 3, you will fry your headlight switch or worst all could happen run your power for the relay from the battrey only with an inline fuse YOUR HEAD LIGHTS CANT HANDLE THE LOAD!! ive seen too many pepole cook there trucks because of bad wirring
the outher thing is if you wanna be able to use them on the road dont mount them on your cab or above you will get a nice big ticket if you get caught with them even uncovered on the road not to mention you wont have many frends on the road i think the magic number is 48 inches (depending on where you live) thats how high off the ground you can have lights
ORIGINAL: Grizzly
As far as the wiring goes, I would suggest one improvement. Take the power for the relay from the high beam side of your wiring harness. That does two things, one it turns your lights on and off with the stock lights, and all your high power lights go off when you put your stock lights on low beam. Much easier to use on the road.
As far as the wiring goes, I would suggest one improvement. Take the power for the relay from the high beam side of your wiring harness. That does two things, one it turns your lights on and off with the stock lights, and all your high power lights go off when you put your stock lights on low beam. Much easier to use on the road.
the outher thing is if you wanna be able to use them on the road dont mount them on your cab or above you will get a nice big ticket if you get caught with them even uncovered on the road not to mention you wont have many frends on the road i think the magic number is 48 inches (depending on where you live) thats how high off the ground you can have lights
The 48" rule has a lot to do with how high you can lift a truck. That's the fedral limit for the headlights. That's why you will see some trucks with the headlights covered over and another set of lights mounted lower that are actually the headlights.
also like i sed it all depends on where you live i live in bc canada and there stricket about lights could be because the winter is dark for soo long and everyone has driving lights even on cars lol. if i look around i see covered lights lol even lots on the buper (helps the lenses last longer they dont get hit by rocks ect.) if you have lightforce lights thell give you a ticket for using them or having them uncovered too because there not SAE or DOT (i cant rember whitch) aproved
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If you're still looking for a spot to mount lights, I mounted a set of 55 watt lamps inside my grill. Bolted the to the upper radiator frame and made sure the beam went throught he grill. It keeps it clean looking while adding some light to the ground. You need to play with adjusting the beam pattern since they are high up.
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Get that build sheet from Chrysler and it'll tell you what alt you have.
I have 2 150W KC Daylighters that are Longrangers. With my 136 amp HO alt while wheeling I have the two 150W lights going, headlights, CB Radio, Radar Detector (cause its ALWAYS on), 2000W amp, headunit, Satalite Radio unit, cell phone charging and I have no problems at all. Lights don't even dim when bass hits. You shouldn't have a proglem.
KC's are sweet, come with a great warrenty. The SlimLights are cool but kinda pricy. Zeek mounted some lights on the front of his truck, dunno if it was on teh bumper or not but he hasn't been around here in a while [&:] Could PM him and see if he replies.
I have 2 150W KC Daylighters that are Longrangers. With my 136 amp HO alt while wheeling I have the two 150W lights going, headlights, CB Radio, Radar Detector (cause its ALWAYS on), 2000W amp, headunit, Satalite Radio unit, cell phone charging and I have no problems at all. Lights don't even dim when bass hits. You shouldn't have a proglem.
KC's are sweet, come with a great warrenty. The SlimLights are cool but kinda pricy. Zeek mounted some lights on the front of his truck, dunno if it was on teh bumper or not but he hasn't been around here in a while [&:] Could PM him and see if he replies.
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Good luck with the light install...I planning on getting a pre-runner bar to mount some lights because I dont like the full bar or anything like that, I really like pre-runners though. Good luck and get some pics when your done!
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black97sport- this may sound dumb, but mind if i ask what a prerunner bar is? can you post some pics? i think i may have heard of that before but im not sure exactly waht it looks like. pics or a link would be great- thanx.