Headlight upgrade and now theyre useless!
11-17-2014, 02:55 AM
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Just upgraded my head lights to the angel eye housing and the H4 bulbs. Now they'll work for 5 minutes, and then they start blinking on and off. Im running my LED pods in place of my headlights currently, but I'm using them more than I would like. Please, anyone, help me. Anyone have this issue as well?
12-11-2014, 01:15 AM
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Sorry for the delayed response. OK, so I did the swap of the housing and the H4 halogen bulbs, 100w lo\ 130w hi. Now tonight I pulled it apart, cleaned the socket, roughed up the prongs on the lights, and dielectric greased the hell out of them. Put one bulb back in, and it will stay on all day long. Plug in both, and they start blinking again. I'm overloading the system from what I can figure, and making a relay pop, but I can't find a relay in line for the headlights.
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Sorry for the delayed response. OK, so I did the swap of the housing and the H4 halogen bulbs, 100w lo\ 130w hi. Now tonight I pulled it apart, cleaned the socket, roughed up the prongs on the lights, and dielectric greased the hell out of them. Put one bulb back in, and it will stay on all day long. Plug in both, and they start blinking again. I'm overloading the system from what I can figure, and making a relay pop, but I can't find a relay in line for the headlights.
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Sorry for the delayed response. OK, so I did the swap of the housing and the H4 halogen bulbs, 100w lo\ 130w hi. Now tonight I pulled it apart, cleaned the socket, roughed up the prongs on the lights, and dielectric greased the hell out of them. Put one bulb back in, and it will stay on all day long. Plug in both, and they start blinking again. I'm overloading the system from what I can figure, and making a relay pop, but I can't find a relay in line for the headlights.
12-11-2014, 06:49 AM
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Get the harness! Or at least make your own!
I put a putco harness with rampage h4 headlights on my crawler and it's amazing.
I made my own harness with stock bulbs for my daily driver and it's even more amazing
I put a putco harness with rampage h4 headlights on my crawler and it's amazing.
I made my own harness with stock bulbs for my daily driver and it's even more amazing
12-11-2014, 07:02 AM
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Can't do any more for ya other than this, and neither can anyone else.
Buy the harness. Install it. Drive your Jeep with nice headlights.
End of story.
12-11-2014, 08:16 AM
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Get a harness off ebay uses standard 4 pin relays and ceramic plugs. Got it for $18 so far I'm happier with the quality then i was with the patco
12-12-2014, 06:06 AM
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That's because there isn't a relay in the factory system. You WILL melt your switch and/or start a fire running such high wattage bulbs on the factory circuit. GET A RELAY HARNESS.
P.S. While projection is a legitimate optic for halogens (not all projectors are for HID; some are for halogen and won't even work correctly for HID), the headlights the OP posted pale in comparison to ECE (aka E-code) Cibie, IPF, Delta Tech, Hella, or even Autopal. Plus the LED halo thing is, imo, very tacky.
P.S. While projection is a legitimate optic for halogens (not all projectors are for HID; some are for halogen and won't even work correctly for HID), the headlights the OP posted pale in comparison to ECE (aka E-code) Cibie, IPF, Delta Tech, Hella, or even Autopal. Plus the LED halo thing is, imo, very tacky.
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12-12-2014, 06:57 AM
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That's because there isn't a relay in the factory system. You WILL melt your switch and/or start a fire running such high wattage bulbs on the factory circuit. GET A RELAY HARNESS.
P.S. While projection is a legitimate optic for halogens (not all projectors are for HID; some are for halogen and won't even work correctly for HID), the headlights the OP posted pale in comparison to ECE (aka E-code) Cibie, IPF, Delta Tech, Hella, or even Autopal. Plus the LED halo thing is, imo, very tacky.
P.S. While projection is a legitimate optic for halogens (not all projectors are for HID; some are for halogen and won't even work correctly for HID), the headlights the OP posted pale in comparison to ECE (aka E-code) Cibie, IPF, Delta Tech, Hella, or even Autopal. Plus the LED halo thing is, imo, very tacky.
Your advice is spot-on.
He'll have more time and money in a headlight switch than he will doing the harness.
12-14-2014, 03:24 PM
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This your issue, the stock wiring a barely adequate for the stock bulbs (awesome job of Chrysler cost savings). Then you put twice the draw through the same circuit with no changes.... You are actually lucky the breaker is saving you, an earlier Cherokee likely would have caught fire at the switch.
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