I know we had a thread about the new ebay clear lense light housings you can get from the brick noses. I wasn't super impressed with them before I retrofitted bixenon hid projectors into them and was thinking what to do with my old lights..
Since the main issue is the fluted non clear lenses and you have to retrofit hid projectors into those to make an improvement anyways it's not super cost effective. What if there was a way to get a clear lense on an existing housing?
That's what I'm gonna try with my old lights. This will only work if your lights have the chrome trim around them.
The glue is so dried after 30 years you can pry the lenses off with a screwdriver.. peel the old glue out, pry the trim rings off and get your dremel out and dremel around the lip of the front of the lense that sticks out once the trim ring is off..
You can see what's left of the lense in there. The next step will be to go to home depot and get some clear lexan cut. Looks like it will need to be 10 1/4 x 6 1/4 to cover the hole and be glue able to the old lense. I'm going to also put a black piece of plastic or aluminum around where I made the cut so you cant see the edges and then I'm gonna spray gloss black over the old chrome so you really won't know what I did.
There's a projector just sitting in one. You can imagine it with the lexan glued in and something covering the edge of the cut in the original lense with it all blacked out.
I'm also for the sake of cost effectiveness going to see if a 4x6 bi-led light like the bullnose trucks take can sit in the light. If it fits you could easily jb weld a little "stand" to keep the 4x6 centered and use the oem adjuster to aim it..
All in all my goal is for there to be an easy way if you have a dremel, 10$ lexan from home depot and jb weld and 100$ for either 4x6 leds or an hid kit for us to have better lights. I love what I did to ernest with the already clear ebay lights but 150 for those and the hell of baking and separating them plus still needing to buy leds or doing a retro versus doing this may be just as good and might look just as good..
I can for sure say getting our factory lense pried off and cut with a dremel is 15 minutes and 0 stress versus baking permaseal in your oven and an hour later having the lense off and no way to get the old glue out. I'll toss in projectors when I finish the "oem" versions I'm working on here, but I really want to try and go LED on this build both for the truck it's going ins looks and just to see if i can make it work.
Since the main issue is the fluted non clear lenses and you have to retrofit hid projectors into those to make an improvement anyways it's not super cost effective. What if there was a way to get a clear lense on an existing housing?
That's what I'm gonna try with my old lights. This will only work if your lights have the chrome trim around them.
The glue is so dried after 30 years you can pry the lenses off with a screwdriver.. peel the old glue out, pry the trim rings off and get your dremel out and dremel around the lip of the front of the lense that sticks out once the trim ring is off..
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You can see what's left of the lense in there. The next step will be to go to home depot and get some clear lexan cut. Looks like it will need to be 10 1/4 x 6 1/4 to cover the hole and be glue able to the old lense. I'm going to also put a black piece of plastic or aluminum around where I made the cut so you cant see the edges and then I'm gonna spray gloss black over the old chrome so you really won't know what I did.
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There's a projector just sitting in one. You can imagine it with the lexan glued in and something covering the edge of the cut in the original lense with it all blacked out.
I'm also for the sake of cost effectiveness going to see if a 4x6 bi-led light like the bullnose trucks take can sit in the light. If it fits you could easily jb weld a little "stand" to keep the 4x6 centered and use the oem adjuster to aim it..
All in all my goal is for there to be an easy way if you have a dremel, 10$ lexan from home depot and jb weld and 100$ for either 4x6 leds or an hid kit for us to have better lights. I love what I did to ernest with the already clear ebay lights but 150 for those and the hell of baking and separating them plus still needing to buy leds or doing a retro versus doing this may be just as good and might look just as good..
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I can for sure say getting our factory lense pried off and cut with a dremel is 15 minutes and 0 stress versus baking permaseal in your oven and an hour later having the lense off and no way to get the old glue out. I'll toss in projectors when I finish the "oem" versions I'm working on here, but I really want to try and go LED on this build both for the truck it's going ins looks and just to see if i can make it work.
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