HOW TO: Trans Am DRL Switchbacks
so, to sum all this up and what I have gathered reading 11 pages of this project....get the 48 towers, not the 60s, and 2 new flashers. now, my question is this: considering the heat the factory bulbs put out, with their ingenious idea of putting the socket in the bottom, and the heat melting the top of the housing, allowing water into the housing, therefore continuously blowing the bulbs and eventually ruining the socket, if I invest into new housings, and go to the LED switchbacks, I shouldn't have that problem anymore, correct??
so, to sum all this up and what I have gathered reading 11 pages of this project....get the 48 towers, not the 60s, and 2 new flashers. now, my question is this: considering the heat the factory bulbs put out, with their ingenious idea of putting the socket in the bottom, and the heat melting the top of the housing, allowing water into the housing, therefore continuously blowing the bulbs and eventually ruining the socket, if I invest into new housings, and go to the LED switchbacks, I shouldn't have that problem anymore, correct??
Correct. Or you seal the leaking housings before installing the led's. I bought new housings and before I could install the led's (weather,) water in the right front. Split the plastic directly above stock bulb from heat. Some RTV lovin and she should be as water tight as a frogs ***.
ok, so I got the 48-LED towers in saturday, and worked on the project today, put in one of my new housings, put the bulb in, and when the car is running, it doesn't light up amber, or anything, it will blink amber with the blinker on, and when the headlights are up, it doesn't burn at all.....thoughts?
Just checking but was this in response to my question earlier about ebay leds? Sorry to ask, there were a couple of posts in between and this is confusing.
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I think they're hosing you. If the same one works and the same other one doesn't then there is something clearly wrong with the one that doesn't work. I'm not running equalizers. Just an electromechanical Tridon EL12 flasher and iJDMtoy switchbacks.
Said quote: " The switchbacks virtually all require load equalizers to work properly in nearly every car. "
The sockets they plug into are new, I replaced them during the install so there shouldn't be a problem there. I tested, both sides with standard bulbs, each works fine.
Has anyone else had this problem? Thoughts?
