I believe the current lights are original, will new ones be brighter or is it a waste of money? Never had to dealwith the glass lamp

 

I hear that upgrading the wiring harness for the head lights helps out a lot.

 

Upgrade to what?

 

I put in silverstars for mine, nice difference from stock but not too bright to other drivers

 

Silverstars. Plug and play and a nice bump in brightness over stock.


Your local auto parts store may also carry them.

 

I think I have silverstars in mine. I blinded my friend in a lifted tacoma one night with the low beams. His headlights stand higher than my hood by the way. 6 inch total lift, its a badass little truck.

 

That is in fact true.

 

Now I got a question. Is it better/more worth it to upgrade the wiring or just do an HID kit?

 

Upgrade the wiring first. Between the undersized wiring and the lack of a load carrying relay there is a pretty good voltage drop to the headlights. Anything you replace them with will suffer the same problem.

 

Silver stars are a nice improvement, over factory lights. HID and harness upgrade http://www.eautoworks.com/Putco-H4--...s-PRD7540.aspx is the best way to go. Excuse the pun, But with HID the difference is like night and day. worth the investment.

 

Here's the parts:

http://www.eautoworks.com/Putco-H4--...s-PRD7540.aspx


Here's how to do it. Radi is 100% correct. Do the harness first. The added bonus is that the high electrical load is removed from your headlight switch so it won't melt down on you some dark night.

Cruiser’s Headlight Upgrade Harness Instructions
　
　
Absolutely plug and play. Remove grille and headlamp bulbs. I fed my harnesses from the passenger side starting between the battery and the back of the headlamp housing, over to the driver side. Plug the driver side bulb into the new harness. Attach the new harness's ground wire under one of the small bolts on the radiator support after scraping the paint off under it. Attach the harness to the existing harness behind the grille working toward the passenger side. . Plug the new harness plug into passenger headlamp. Plug original headlamp plug into receptacle on new harness. Attach the ground for the passenger side just like you did the driver side under a radiator support bolt. Attach relays with provided bracket on the passenger side inner fender. Connect power wires to battery.

 

Gotta upgrade the wire anyway.

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My wheeling buddy had some higher tier HIDs... he ended up going back to halogen. Xjs werent designed for HIDs and most of the time, they wont last. Mainly cause ballasts dont like to he shaken, or get wet. I dont see the point in adding more failure points.

Me personally, i upgraded my headlight harness (see sig for build thread) i even skipped over the high beams, mainly cause i never use them anymore.

 

A terrific lamp brightness upgrade with one downside: High Beam Latch Up occurs with this harness (I believe it's due to the factory fog lamp connection scheme). There's a stray 5V-7V present at the terminal all the time which allows the high beam relay to energize but prevents the high beam relay from de-energizing when the high beam are turned off. Lights need to be turned off in-order to de-energize the high beam relay. It's an inconvenience but a livable one...

 

This is the only time i have heard about that. Considering i build headlight harnesses not just*for wagoneers, but cherokees as well, i have never run into that issue.

Sounds like your harness is messed up somewhere.

 

I'll have to save up for that harness then. It'll be one of those side projects that I'm not too worried about yet. My headlights now work pretty damn good.