New HID Headlights

Dozerboy

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Around $500 IIRC for Denali's

I just used the stock Denali projector and I have a pretty good cut off. I would like to retro the Hi's and fogs though at some point. The fog are a PITA I guess.
 

lts1ow

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Around $500 IIRC for Denali's

I just used the stock Denali projector and I have a pretty good cut off. I would like to retro the Hi's and fogs though at some point. The fog are a PITA I guess.

Thats not bad at all, now, has anyone tried to use the OEM HID fuse circuit? I know mine had a empty fuse slot cause I would assume the denali's had the same fuse box?
 

lts1ow

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Pull the plastic under the dash and splice the high on signal line into the high flash line. This way the ballast always remains energized.
 

Hot COCOAL

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Only issue we are tracking down now is the lack of highs when you click em on, the silly OE system clicks off the lows when you click on highs, so the ballast loses power (powered from low signal) So, right now we are gonna grab the pass/flash high beam signal and splice it to the full on high beam signal at the BCM. Sucks since this makes things not exactly plug and play but we shall see.

As of now, I have lows and halogen highs, but when you click on the high the ballast depowers and HIDs don't like the cycling. So I can flash highs and have halogen/HID but can't keep em on.

So fixed the headlight high/low issue, really simple fix.

Pull the plastic under the dash and splice the high on signal line into the high flash line. This way the ballast always remains energized.

There's another alternative that takes about 10min to do and costs $3 and can be done in the top of the fuse box...

You just need to tie a diode in line between the # 85 pins on the relay fuses for the head/fog/brights, at least that's the pin # that works on 06-10 trucks.

Just run one diode off of each the head and fog lights #85 pin of the gray square relay fuse in the under hood fuse box.

The diode # is 4004, I got them from radio shack, you will need only two, they come in a pack of 3 iirc, buy two packs....
there's actually a couple threads about it here...completing the task in a similar fashion...

Here's a pic of the fuse diagram, I circled the #85 pin locations and drew with a red line the path I took, each black square thingy in the red line is a diode, this was an old path, I realized I only needed two diodes after a couple attempts...


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To do this you will need to use two #4004 diodes, making sure to always have the grey band on the diode facing the high beam relay, take one diode full length from the low beam relay #85 pin, to the high beam relay #85 pin bend it to fit between the fuses and make sure it is centered leaving equal amount of diode wire on each side, on the low beam side, using as little length as possible, make the diode wire bend all the way around the 85 pin to secure it in place, I used needle nose pliers to do this to keep the diode wire neat and tight to the pin. After the circlet has been completed, refit the diode with it attached to the low beam relay and set the relay in place, now, making sure ithe diode fits between both the high and low beam relays, bend a "leg" on the diode wire on the high beam relay side to set it into the the #85 pin location of the fuse panel and set the leg into that hole, then set the high beam relay, it should secure the diode wire in the receptacle.

Now, your done if all you want to do is run the high and low beams together...

If you have, and would also like to run and keep your fog lights on for the "6 HI mod", you need to run another diode from the #85 pin of the fog relay, with the grey band of the diode on the high beam side of the circuit, make a leg to drop into the 85 pin slot for the fog light relay set the leg into the hole and fit the fog diode to the hi/lo diode you preciously set, cut the fog diode wire in front of the diode to fit with and solder it to the hi/lo diode behind the actual diode for the hi/lo path. Bam, you're done. And it should look something like this, if not better...

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With it wired like this the lows and fogs don't ever go off when the high beam circuit is engaged and when you flash your high beams with the light circuit off all the lights will illuminate as well, FYI

I have done this to 3 GM rigs now with no issues

Even though you only need 2 diodes, buy many more, if you try and get everything working and don't have the diodes going the right way, they get fried instantly when you turn the light switch on :thumb:
 
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lts1ow

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That sounds good, thanks for the advice!

I will stick to my simple(r) mod for now, keeps things inside the truck and away from the elements.
 

gmduramax

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I think you'll probably have to order some cheap headlights (Ebay or some place like that) to get clear lenses or get some lenses custom moulded.

I found a pair of complete headlights that are clear. They look factory. Is there any years that did come clear? I'd imagine someone sells just the lens.
 

Hot COCOAL

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Here is a pic of the all on mod.

Following is a pic of low and fog

And fog

And no light...

All out of stock housings, DDM digital slim 35w 4500k in the low, 35w 3200k in the fog, and 50w 5000k in the highs:D

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I know that this isn't as cool, nice or legit as a projector set up, or a full retrofit...

But for the $150-$175 bucks I got into it.....I'm :D
 

Combine Pilot

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I retrofitted some projectors into our Peterbilt a couple years ago and had to have clear lenses custom formed. It was about $600 for the moulds to be made and the lenses vacuum formed so it wasn't cheap.
http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?39685-1996-Peterbilt-MH1-Retrofit

I found a lot of info on hid planet.com. Here is a guy that did a retro in a Tahoe and it would probably be the same for our trucks.

http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?38055-00-06-Tahoe-HID-retrofit-w-Depo-headlight-amp-Lexus-RX-AFS-TSX-R-projectors...
 
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Hot COCOAL

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Wow, very cool :thumb:
I'd like to take my lighting to the next level, with a retro fit like from HID Planet, but I just have too many other things higher up on that same list ;)
 

Taylor-34

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Anybody know where I can get a clear lens for the GMC headlights?

I'm a Cali native and we call it clearing the headlights and markers basically pop em in the oven to warm the glue desperate the lense from the headlight pop out the orange reflectors and seal them back up with an Rtv silicone.. I've done tons and rarely get moisture build up, and none from the classic body styles