How To: Black Head Light mod

hopefully should be doing my BHLM this week or next. will post pics when it's all done.

 

Ive been trying to find this 3M window wed locally here in Canada for the psat couple of days and its been really hard , I found an auto store than can order me it , but they only have the 80610 which is a 1/4" instead of 80611 which is 5/16" for guys that have done it this should really make a difference hey?
thanks

 

1/4" is fine.

 

Ended up buying this stuff, I think its the same stuff as the 3M just a different brand..
http://www.proformproducts.com/en/products/info/?product=100&category=24 hope it works!

 

Just have some GE "Silicone-II" available in case it doesn't seal well.

 

Sub'd for future mod

 

Awesome write up. Subd for future destruction

 

I'm still out of work and bored, Wife and daughter just took off to Japan.
The kitchen is all mine, and the wife isn't here to say "NO!"
wish me luck!

 

Success! took me half a day taking my time. Very happy. Nothing broken or damaged. Looks pretty badass, and pretty cheap

Thanks for all the How to's!

 

Thanks! so happy with the way they came out. Changes the whole look of the front end. Now the color matched grille surround will make an even bigger difference.

Looks great with the darker trucks

 

gonna do bhlm in next day or two. viet what do you mean by putting butyl rubber in channel? Sorry if its a dumb question but just want to be clear.

 

When you split the headlight housing, you will see a channel with sealant in it. It is the grey side. Once that is cleaned out you put the sealant in that channel on the grey half. Then into the oven to soften and back together again.

 

Mike, thanks for updating the thread man!

 

I wanna do this, can someone borrow me half a day since all I need is time to actually do it.

 

Heres a sneek pic at my retro fit. All parts except for the halo eyes bought from TRS. I got the halo led lights from eBay. I modded them by wiring in a 220 ohm 1/8 watt resistor to the negative wire lead. The LEDs have resistors already for 12 volt application but they would heat up too much. After wiring in the resistor the halos ran real cool. That should also extend the life of the LEDs. I decided on adding a demon eye mod as well. Basically an orange colored LED inserted on top of the lens holder of the projector. The lights look great in chrome but I will be blacking out the entire light.

 

I think I have my next weekend project.

 

Doing this tomorrow! Hope it turns out ok!

 

take ur time, take ur time, take ur time.

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LOWES/ Depot/Ace/Miners

window and door (clear)


let it offgas as long as possible, I always let them sit overnight on the bench with (very important) ALL tubes/plugs/caps/bulbs removed

tip- save the plastic bag this came in............use it (or another bag) to wrap ur first finger and middle finger with plastic twice...use this to literally PUSH a bead of silicone into the seams when the 2 halves are joined together and after u have baked/window welded them.

if u look through the clear part of the lens, u can see the silicone weep into the seam and u can push it in there with ur plastic wrapped fingers..... the plastic bag serves 2 purposes....
1- keeps ur hands/finger clean

2- the plastic will make the silicone easy to spread.....for some reason it doesnt seem to let the silicone clump up and get tacky like it would on bare flesh.

just a couple pennies ur way





also, to help u handle the hot lights (u wanna pull em outta oven and get them pryed open fast) and to keep the napalm.....I mean "Glue" off of ur flesh and look a lil more manly than using oven mits to remove the lights from the oven, pickup a $8 set of welding gloves from the hardware store.