Questions/help with Mini H1 install please

Headlights are apart, was gonna take the reflectors out to paint them but I thought I would test fit the projectors. They are the Morimoto Mini H1 6.0 with the mini gatling gun shroud from TRS. I put the shroud on (didn't screw it in) and put the projector through the hole and tightened the nut almost all the way. My question is are you supposed to see that much of the projector behind the shroud? And the wires for the high beam? I thought the shroud is supposed to cover everything and sit up against the reflector. Here's a couple of pictures.





Also could anyone tell me what order all the plastic and metal washers that come with the projectors are supposed to go on in? Including the nut and the other metal thing that screws into the projector.

 

mine is the same way but I needed my truck that day so I didn't bother

As for the order its just the big rubber washer (1st from the left) and the last metal washer (4th from left) at least thats what it was on my 1st gen. But there shouldn't be a difference

 

You can aluminum tape the wire against the projector to make it blend in. But yes that's how they look because the projectors stick out so much.

Where an FXR you cut a big hole in the bowl and recess the projector in further

 

The mini gatling gun does not provide very good coverage and is better for vehicles with smaller reflectors than the Tacoma.
The Apollo covers everything and goes pretty much all the way to the reflector. Mine did not require any trimming. Some shrouds do need trimming.

 

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Thanks guys. Had I known the mini wouldn't cover it I would've spent the money on a bigger shroud. I'll probably just install it since everything is apart and buy a bigger shroud down the road.

 

Well now I have another problem. Hooked everything up to see if I need to rotate the projectors, and only the driver's side light turned on. And it makes a kind of popping sound like a fuse blowing when I turn the lights on. Checked both bulbs and ballasts and everything works. Just not together. They are both Morimoto brand. I tried some old ballasts I had in the garage and both fired up no problem and no popping sound.

 

Are you using a relay?

 

I'm just using what came with the kit. There's a harness that came with it that has a little box and wires coming out of the little box going to power, the factory H4 plug on the driver's side, ballasts on both sides, ground on both sides, and the high beam triggers on both sides.

 

Check your ground!! Same thing happened to me

Clean it, use a wire brush, and then try again. Or use a different ground

 

+1... passenger side ground is touchy. I really wish TRS would just run a fucking 10ga black across the harness to ground both ballasts and instruct to attach it at the body ground screw by the battery, rather than having the installer attempt to locate a good ground at both ends.
Some ballasts are more sensitive than others to grounding. I had one that once a month or so it would go dark after being on for a half hour or so. I swapped driver/passenger and never had a problem again.

 

I know this thread has been closed for a while. But I have a 2015 and want to do a retrofit. The mini h1. Does that require any cutting of the reflector. I was debating on the fxr bit that requires quite a bit of cutting. From my brief research it seems like the h1 mini just pops in and you screw doWn the nut. Slight nodding may be required. I just don't want to hack io my light and with my luck screw it up.