MARYLAND TACOMAS

Good to know how to add them to my Amazon wish list $1400 later lol

 

The 2014s fit the 2015s. If you are looking at Kings, have you also looked at Icon? Have you thought about digressive vs progressive valving? I'm about to get rid of my OME setup and get an Icon setup so I just went through this whole decision making process. Read this thread if you haven't:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/king-vs-icon-vs-fox-racing-coilovers.203714/

 

kings are a bitch to adjust with them still on the truck btw.....

Icon FTMFW

 

Thanks

 

I drove the Tacoma that I just bought this past Saturday into work today and got it up on the lift so I could evaluate the frame rust and the 2 areas pictured is what I found. I tapped on the entire frame with a hammer and besides the obvious rust the rest of the frame is solid. I'm planning on cutting out the old rusted metal and weld in new. A buddy of mine works in a steel plant and offered to fab me the replacement metal patch panels. Luckily the rusted areas is easily accessible.

 

dew I still gotz 1st dibs?

 

Okay so I'm having some issues with the new fogs... They are 42w (stock is 55w) 3.5 amp (unknown stock amp but a 15amp fuse). I am using the connector that came with the BD lights had to cut the stock one off I know i was trying to avoid that but I left a tail to splice back in if I need to go back stock. Problem is the new fogs are popping the fuse and I can't figure out why. I went all the way up to a 30amp fuse still pops. Heres the strange thing I unplug the BD fog and just have a stock fog light bulb plugged in and it doesn't trip the fuse. Where the fuck am I fucking up. The directions are the A slot of the connector goes to the positive and the B to the ground. The colors are White/black and Green. I've tried both different combinations and both ways trips the fuse. I assume green being to be the ground but like I said I've tried both as the ground and the fuse pops. Use a stock bulb and it works fine. WTH am I doing wrong?

 

what fogs are these? you're obviously grounding out somewhere.

 

Baja Designs Squadron Pro. I'm trying to run them on the stock harness. The harness works with the stock fog like bulb without tripping the fuse so it has to be something with the BD Light.

 

the specs on the light are 3.5 amp and its tripping a 15, 20, and 30 amp fuse

 

the stock bulb is 55w and these are 42 watt. I only have one set up on the circuit so far haven't bothered with the other one yet since I can get this one to work.

 

have you tried powering the lights directly from a 12v battery, without going through the circuits in the truck?

 

negative they didn't come with a wiring harness.... I'm going to bitch at the seller about that but no I have only tried to run them on the stock harness since they should in theory work since they draw less then the stock bulbs.

 

let me grab some wiring and try that route, what will that tell me if they dont blow up in my face lol.

 

okay both lights turn on thats a plus, now for the really strange thing. They both turn on with the provided connector (prewired) with ONLY the positive going to them. I didn't need both wires hooked up for them to turn on.... should I try hooking it up with ONLY a positive feed?

 

just to clarify I DID use both wires as well and both lights turned on. however they both turned on with only the positive wire connected to the "B" slot as well and nothing in the "A" slot.

 

when you are testing them, are they mounted to your steel bumper?

when I looked up the lights, they are commonly listed as a motorcycle headlight replacement. haven't looked into them beyond that, but typically if a single lamp is used on a motorcycle, it has both a high and low beam built in. the difference between high and low can be the firing on more diodes, or by using dual wattage diodes.

this is purely speculation, but for an LED pod, it could be that low beam fire 2 of the LEDs, and high beams fire all 4. this would be done with each wire connecting to two LEDs, and the ground being provided by the metal light housing/bracket mounting to the steel bumper. when you connect one wire, how many LEDs does it fire? is it 2 or 4? same if you just connect the other wire?

 

Curiosity got the best of me and I decided to try things with just the positive. First it is the GREEN wire that is positive. Secondly without the other wire plugged in it turned on and off with the stock fog light switch on the 15amp fuse no issues. Not sure WHY this works but it does. Not sure how BAD it is that it works this way... Any comments from the peanut gallery?

 

with the green wire only on positive, do all four or the LEDs light up, or just two?
if just two, do the other two light up when the other wire has 12 volts applied?
if all four light up with the green wire, do the lights get brighter when 12 volts is applied to the second wire?

what I'm getting at, is that being a motorcycle light, the black/white wire could be a signal wire that hits a high beam feature.

 

All 4 turn on with the green wire, NONE turn on with ONLY the white/black wire and fuse blows if both the green and the white/black are connected. In theory they should not turn on with ONLY a positive feed since it does not complete the circuit. They are mounted to the Steel bumper but its not bare steel (not sure if that truly effects the grounding) but no where does it say that the housing is self grounding. The instructions instruct you to have both wires hooked up. Is it possible they are bad lights?