How To: Customize 13+ Projectors - 08/16 UPDATE - Lights Are Installed On The Truck!!

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UPDATE!!!

My order from Klearz.com had a delivery date of 8/8.... next Tuesday. Somehow they got delivered this morning. Don't know how they arrived so early. Anyways.... there is a big problem.

If you have TYC REPLICA 13+ Projectors DO NOT ORDER CLEAR CORNERS OR DRL LENSES FROM KLEARZ.COM

The lenses and clear corners for the OEM Ram Projectors are different then the TYC Replica lights.

Here is the pictures.

The oem DRL Lenses are flat where the screws go into to mount them. The TYC Replicas have a "groove" or a "hole" the peg goes into and the pieces I got from Klearz.com are for the OEM version. So the "peg" or "post" the screw goes into, is not there. They don't mount or sit flush.

I had to break out my Dremel and cut pieces off and drill holes in other spots but now they fit. They will have to be held on by epoxy as the stock screw holes had to be cut off. No choice in the matter
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That's besides the point that the clear corners and the DRL Lenses have scuffs and marks ALL over them. They look used. Horrible quality control and horrible customer service. NEVER EVER EVER ORDER FROM KLEARZ.COM!!!!

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That sucks man, I'm sorry. Hopefully you can fight and get your money back without too much of a hassle. I was really looking forward to this
 
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That sucks man, I'm sorry. Hopefully you can fight and get your money back without too much of a hassle. I was really looking forward to this
I was able to use my Dremel and cut off the screw holes and then I used a very small amount of plastic weld where all of the clips are to hold it on the headlights face plate.

I was able to get them mounted and they look perfect. You can't even tell I had to dremel anything. They look sick. Updated pictures coming soon.

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I was able to use my Dremel and cut off the screw holes and then I used a very small amount of plastic weld where all of the clips are to hold it on the headlights face plate.

I was able to get them mounted and they look perfect. You can't even tell I had to dremel anything. They look sick. Updated pictures coming soon.

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Awesome man. Good to hear you turned them around
 
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Awesome man. Good to hear you turned them around
I paid $130 for the smoked DRL Lenses and $50 for the smoked corner reflectors.... $180 and all 4 pieces had imperfections all over them. They looked used. Not to mention NONE of them fit where they were supposed to. That could be due to the lights being TYC and not OEM but I'll never know.

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I was able to use my Dremel and cut off the screw holes and then I used a very small amount of plastic weld where all of the clips are to hold it on the headlights face plate.

I was able to get them mounted and they look perfect. You can't even tell I had to dremel anything. They look sick. Updated pictures coming soon.

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I have oem.... send em my way ;)
 
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I have oem.... send em my way ;)
Lol I would sell them but I used a dremel on them to make them work with the TYC lights. I do have a set of the OEM DRL Lenses that I smoked with VHT Nightshades id be willing to sell. They were eventually going to end up on eBay anyways.

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Thats what i plan on doing to mine. Id like to add just halos to my stock projectors
 
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Thats what i plan on doing to mine. Id like to add just halos to my stock projectors
TIP: If you use VHT Nightshades on your DRL Lenses, spray the INSIDE of the DRL lenses. Not the outside, or the finish will look like ****. If you spray the inside instead, they will come out looking perfect with zero imperfections and you will still get the smoked looked.

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Thats what i plan on doing to mine. Id like to add just halos to my stock projectors
I went all out. If I was opening the lights to paint them, I was doing everything I wanted all at once. No point to only do a few things of what I wanted done. I wouldn't be happy and id end up redoing them.

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True. Only thing i wanna do is black mine and add bronze to it. As well as a halo
 
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08/06 UPDATE!!

All of the parts have been delivered, everything is installed and wired up. Just waiting to get my truck back from the dealer (long story, but they are horrible to deal with). I need to plug them in again and double check they are all working properly. Everything is wired the same as it was before so it should all work fine.

Once I get my truck back, hook them up and aslong as everything works as it should, I'm going to solder all of the connections, instead of the quick connects, which could come undone over time.

Then it's time to seal the lights back up, hook up the Retroshop 13+ Adapter and hook up my Retroshop HID Kit and install the lights.

Here are some (almost) final pictures.

***** PLEASE IGNORE THE FINGERPRINTS AND MARKS ON THE LENSES. I STILL NEED TO SOLDER WIRES, AND DO A FINAL WIPE DOWN BEFORE I SEAL THEM UP. EVERY MARK AND SMUDGE WILL BE REMOVED, AS THE LENSES ARE PERFECT WHEN WIPED DOWN *****

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So I'm getting closer to completion. Almost there lol... I have an update.


I took the lights and wired them up to my truck with the Retroshop Adapter Harness to do a final check on the internal wiring inside the housing.
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I'm glad I did the final wiring test because there was a loose connection on the passenger side C-Bar Halo. The quick connects that Diode Dynamics supplies with the Halos and LED Boards are junk and are loose and falling off.

So now I am cutting up the headlights internal wires and the halos/led board wires and soldering them together. Then I will seal them with heat shrink for a perfect, sealed connection. It will be way better then the connectors DD gives you, and I won't have worry about then coming loose over time while driving.

What's left to do:
• Strip, solder & heat shrink internal wires inside headlights.
• Mount Halo/LED Board Drivers inside housing with double sided Gorilla Tape.
• Clean up and zip-tie all wires and make them unable to move around.
• Wipe down entire internal housing, projector lense, and all surfaces from dust and fingerprints.
• Put lights back together, do one final light/wire test.
• Aslong as everything is working, seal then up with Morimoto Retrorubber and add extra bead of Black silicone.
• Install headlights, hook up Retroshop Adapter, Mount Adapter Resistors.
• Install Morimoto XB35 6500k HID kit, Mount Ignitors and Ballasts inside engine bay

Yes ok... I guess my list is pretty long lol.

It's taking me so long because I'm taking my time building them so I don't mess anything up and also I only have about an hour a night to work on then, that's why I'm planning to get everything done during the week so Saturday I can seal them up and Sunday I can install them and do all the mounting of parts in the engine bay and have everything done by this Sunday night.


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**** 08/11/17 UPDATE ****

The light have been sealed up with Morimoto Retrorubber. I also added a second bead of Black Silicone to add an extra layer of protection to the housing from moisture.

Morimoto Retrorubber - Sealed and dried for 24hrs:
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24hrs later - second bead of silicone added:
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Need to let the second bead sit for 24 hours, so I'm thinking these will be on my truck late tomorrow or early sunday. Can't wait. Still need to do alot of mounting and wire running for the hid kit.

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This is a great post, man. Thanks for being so detailed and including photos of the progression. It's going to look badass on your truck.


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This is a great post, man. Thanks for being so detailed and including photos of the progression. It's going to look badass on your truck.


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thanks. i havnt even started writing the how to guide yet. I recorded every step on video, so im going to go back and watch it and write the guide that way. Plus i remember alot of things, small tricks, differences between the OEM internals and the TYC internals (theres alot of differences).

So hopefully they are on my truck this weekend, and then sometime by the middle of next week I can have the guide done. The video is going to take awhile, probably a couple weeks because i have never edited a video before, so its going to be a new learning experience for me.

Does anyone know of any good Video Editing Programs for Windows 10? Something easy, but has enough features to make a good video? Im going to start a youtube channel and use this as my first video, with the second video being me install these lights on my truck, showing how to hook up the Retroshop 09-12 13+ Projector Adapter Harness and the Morimoto XB35 HID Kit. I will also be making more videos as i install more parts.
 

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Good ole terrible windows ten.... search the app store there are plenty free quick ones. Heading to DC tomorrow from Va if you wanna do mine as we walk the streets.
 

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I believe YouTube has a free editor.

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Good ole terrible windows ten.... search the app store there are plenty free quick ones. Heading to DC tomorrow from Va if you wanna do mine as we walk the streets.
Do what as we what? So confused lol

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