Headlights?

[adrianspeeder]

Oooo, ok so you are using relays. Basicly just the same thing I have actually for the 88 except my highbeam control is up on the dash as I don't like the floor switch.

Adrianspeeder

 

[TBigLug]

What is the best/brightest sealed-beam available, legal or not, for my truck??

Thanks.

I'm curious about this as well. No one ever really answered the question. I want a bright light but I do not want to convert my headlights.

So, does anyone know of the brightest lights (legal or otherwise) for these trucks?

 

[towcat]

I'm curious about this as well. No one ever really answered the question. I want a bright light but I do not want to convert my headlights.

So, does anyone know of the brightest lights (legal or otherwise) for these trucks?

Looking for brighter than stock sealed beams is just plain not going to happen...EVER. NHTSA and DOT sets the standards for maximum legal light output in sealed beam headlights. That's why the DOT is cast into the lens. If you want to "do better", you will have to break a sweat. there's the aftermarket plastic fishbowls that will accept whatever brightness H4's or if you have to comply with local saftey inspections, Hella makes a DOT legal lens assy that comes with a legal H4 bulb. Prepare to shell out roughly $120 for the "kit" Once, you pass your inspections, you can then put in whatever brightness bulb you desire.
If your truck comes with the factory fishbowls, there's plenty of aftermarket bulb choices. but be warned.....thermonuclear meltdown has occured in fishbowls running really bright bulbs

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

H6054 SILVER STARs

I'm curious about this as well. No one ever really answered the question. I want a bright light but I do not want to convert my headlights.

So, does anyone know of the brightest lights (legal or otherwise) for these trucks?

Since posting this question, I have found this:

http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/dev/showthread.php?t=74442&page=4

:This is all a good read about headlights.

The post about the SilverStars is (I think) on about page 4.

#H 6054 SS Sylvania SilverStar Sealed Beam Headlight

 

[f-two-fiddy]

I'm not impressed with the SilverStar's. One of mine burned down in less than 2 mo. And no, I didn't touch them with my bare hands while installing them.

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

H6054 SEALED BEAM

I'm not impressed with the SilverStar's. One of mine burned down in less than 2 mo. And no, I didn't touch them with my bare hands while installing them.

I think you are talking about seperate-bulb Halogens; the Silver Stars that I am referring to are SEALED BEAM.

 

[f-two-fiddy]

Yes, I understand that.

 

[Camarogenius]

Wow. I just remembered that I started this topic.
Oh!! I solved the headlight problem.











I'm gonna get swonked all over the place for this one!




















































I bought a Dodge.

 

[Agnem]

SWONK SWONK SWONK SWONK

 

[TLBREWER]

But do you still have the Ford? I sold one of my IDI's and bought a new Dmax, but I still have 2 IDI's.

Tom

 

[Camarogenius]

Yup. I actually drove it yesterday. I really do like the truck, It just needs alot of work, and I'm afraid of sinking a bunch of money into the Clutch, brakes and fuel tanks, and then the engine goes kaput.

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

I'm afraid of sinking a bunch of money into the Clutch, brakes and fuel tanks, and then the engine goes kaput.

That's why an extra engine sits over in the corner.

I am stubborn about keeping the older "non-communist-computer-electronic" stuff and just rebuilding/welding/re-designing what I already have.

The wife went through about a dozen of those late-model disposable vehicles, when lots of the time, my two old non-modern trucks were the only vehicles on the place that could be depended on.

Now, she has a 91 Dodge/Cummins and I don't have to rescue her stranded all the time on account of some silly sensor going bad, or a corroded connection on something that shouldn't be on a vehicle in the first place.

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

I CAN SEE CLEARLY, NOW!!!

I just got back from my first long trip in the dark, since doing the headlight relay modification on my F-350.

Lights on, at idle, before any changes = 12.7 Volts at the light terminals confused: I started to wonder if I could improve anything).

After direct through relay modification, lights on, at idle = 14.3 Volts.

The difference is DRAMATIC.

Anyone that has been putting this off will wonder why they didn't do it years ago.

I still have room for improvements.

One of the sealed-beams came in the truck in 1985.

The other is a different brand, Halogen, that was installed nearly twenty years ago.

A pair of Sylvania H-6054SS Sealed-Beam Silver-Stars are on the list.

Also, a switchable circuit that kicks DIMs on with the brights is in the making.