Headlights....against moparman advice, coming from ebay

[JAG1]

Okay..... I know I'll probably regret it but, a guy can spend over 5-600 bucks just for stock sport headlights and I'm used to my first gen at 24 bucks ea. and its all glass. So wondering if anyone dealt with the issues on the ebay version? I plan on using LEXEL (it fuses to plastic) to seal around the lenses and then get stainless fine thread screws that I can change out for the adjustment screws. BTW, the Lexel sealant you can use to build up weak places in plastic since Michael Nelson was talking about some portion snapping off or something, basically warning me not to get them. lol.

 

 

 

[Dieselfuture]

 

Edit, like I said no one is laughing at my jokes 

Edited April 1, 2018 by Dieselfuture

[trreed]

You'll probably be fine. A buddy has eBay specials in his, and the output isn't worse than stock. But maybe fractionally better. 

[kzimmer]

I have some cheap led Halo projector housings from eBay, came with some nice tail lights too. Quality is pretty decent, great cutoff. I don't have the info off hand but it was a worthwhile purchase. Came with halogen bulbs, and instead of buying HID's I have a set of LED bulbs to put in. I've used both LED and HID and like them both, but I dislike the warmup time of brights being HID.

 

Sorry for the tangent.

[jlbayes]

On 3/31/2018 at 9:43 PM, kzimmer said:

I have some cheap led Halo projector housings from eBay, came with some nice tail lights too. Quality is pretty decent, great cutoff. I don't have the info off hand but it was a worthwhile purchase. Came with halogen bulbs, and instead of buying HID's I have a set of LED bulbs to put in. I've used both LED and HID and like them both, but I dislike the warmup time of brights being HID.

 

Sorry for the tangent.

 

This is why you do not want a dual bulb hid setup.

[kzimmer]

8 hours ago, jlbayes said:

 

This is why you do not want a dual bulb hid setup.

 

I've done it on a few vehicles and was able to deal with it, but it definitely wasn't ideal.

[JAG1]

Mine is a sport model so has the harness for dual bulbs. Thank you for the assurance. I needed to save a few bucks right now since I did take heed to Michael Nelson advice on buying a new computer. I'm glad I did too.

[dripley]

11 hours ago, JAG1 said:

Mine is a sport model so has the harness for dual bulbs. Thank you for the assurance. I needed to save a few bucks right now since I did take heed to Michael Nelson advice on buying a new computer. I'm glad I did too.

Personal or vehicle? Computer that is.

Edited April 3, 2018 by dripley

[JAG1]

Personal computer. Glad I listened it's a nice laptop. First thing salesman said was never leave it visible in vehicle. It will be gone before you know it. So I tried finding one small enough to fit in the console, but no go they not like Michael said to get.

I'm slow on it.

If I let MoparMan use it thered be a burnt spot in the table. lol

Edited April 4, 2018 by JAG1

[GSP7]

 

 

Headlights ?

 

Well I just replaced the Glass sealed beams on my '81 chevy k20 cause one was bad

 

What a pleasure working on it.

Easy access, nice glass lenses, nice stainless steel metal piece with 4 screws that holds the sealed beam into a steal bucket.

All quality, no plastic Junk... Total cost for two headlights about $12.00

 

   

 

 

Edited April 4, 2018 by GSP7

[SilverMoose]

On 4/4/2018 at 10:49 AM, GSP7 said:

 

 

Headlights ?

 

Well I just replaced the Glass sealed beams on my '81 chevy k20 cause one was bad

 

What a pleasure working on it.

Easy access, nice glass lenses, nice stainless steel metal piece with 4 screws that holds the sealed beam into a steal bucket.

All quality, no plastic Junk... Total cost for two headlights about $12.00

 

   

 

 

Those were the days... when you could get to everything under the hood easily

 

L8tr

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