Retro KC lights to Led POD conversion
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- čas přidán 5. 11. 2020
- Putting inexpensive pod lights inside the housing of 6inch off road KC style lights.
LED POD lights 4pack FLOOD: amzn.to/2GDMS34
LED POD lights 4pack SPOT: amzn.to/351NWqE
KC 6" Knock off lights: amzn.to/2TXmzI2
KC 6"Hilites Daylighter USA MADE: amzn.to/38foYpW
Milwaukee M12 3in cutoff saw: amzn.to/2Gyrzjd
Everything in this video was bought and paid for out of my own pocket. Any brand mentions are only because they are what I trust spending my own money on.
VIDEO THOUGHTS:
The 18watt LED pods I used were FLOOD lights and a set of four use 72 watts/6 amps vs the 400 watts/34amps the halogen pull. Definitely better light and my alternator gets a huge break. I may put SPOTs in the center two KC lights for an even better illumination area. These 6inch KC style lights give the correct look to older Jeeps and trucks. KC does sell LED inserts and complete housings but expect to spend over $100 each light.
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Bought a set of KC's hid stainless steel housing lights with a pencil beam 10 plus years ago. Killer lights! Luv them. They were 8 or 900 bucks at the time and came with a 23 year warrany no questions asked . Sent them in once already to be refurbished due to yellowing of the lenses. Had to sawsall them out of my bumper due to the main mounting bolt being made from steel and rusted bad enough that i couldn't get them off. Called KC and told them and they told me just cut them out. Got back two brand new units with upgraded stainless mounting bolts . Great company to work with.
KC makes great products.
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Now they only have a 5 year warranty. Useless
I loved the looonng range beam of my 4 old 150watt sealed beam daylighters, had one burn out and removed one more to keep it even looking. 2 still put out PLENTY of light and agreed they are power hungry. had relayed, fused 8awg to each pair and a 140A alternator. Great job on the retrofit👍old school cool with a touch of modern! I do like the led pods and bars as well. I also used the aux beam pods as reverse lights, just mounted behind the bumper either side of the hitch!
Those 150watt Halogens put out an insane amount of light. 4 of those is around 50amps draw. 15+ years ago I upgraded to electric cooling fans that pull around 20-30amps, then if I run my heater(20amps) and my headlights(10amps), I'm maxed out with the stock 60amp alternator. I can watch the voltage drop anytime I would turn on the 2 100watt reverse halogens. Obviously a high output alternator is needed even with my LEDs.
When I moved I had to remove my lights as the truck was shipped and they claimed too tall (yet they later admitted it would have been fine...annoying). Been struggling on finding good looking lights for replacement of my kc daylighters. Thank you so much! Was saving my pennies for that many multi- 100's of $ expense. Now...not! And I use a similar arrangement. 2 floods in my brush guard, 2 floods in the outside top, 2 spots in the middle top, and 2 fogs facing rear from the top. Thus, the floods in the brush guard fill close and wide (coupled with headlights and factory fog), the top floods fill far and wide, the top spots do really far and fill in the gap between the top floods, and the rear, usually don't have on unless I have to back up so I don't blind my buddies, but is similar to what you showed. You do feel it with all those halogens on. Even with the accessory alternator installed.
I can watch my battery voltage plummet with a set of halogens on.
Now that is an excellent way to blend the old with the new!
Thanks Brad.
Love the old truck vids 👍👍👍
Glad you like them!
I like your old pickup l, you gotta make more videos of it 👍
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.
Great light tech, those are BRIGHT! and aesthetic wonderfullness. Can't have no tiny Chinezers on that truck. Looks and functions great, man.
You said it well.
Great video and retro-fit Moe, thank you!
Lol! Ginger knows exactly what a frisbee is by its name!
I have to be careful saying that word around the house if I don't intend on throwing it around.
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For us it's "do you want to go." It doesn't matter what we're going to do, the dog is game for it and waiting by the door playing the nose whistle.
Those LED's are great. So much brighter and draw less currant.
Totally agree. I went from 35amps to 6amps.
You have some awesome trucks my favorite one is that 65 f100 you got in the garage
Mine as well!
This is great. I too hate the look of the cube lights but want their output. Yours turned out looking quite nice. Now I just need to find some broken KC Hilights for cheap...
Also, it's always nice to see the Dentside in a video.
Hey thanks man. The KC are definitely nicer but you can get the knockoff ones for around 10-15 bucks a piece and not feel guilty about cutting them up. If I recall I bought the non-KC ones in the early 2000s from Harbor freight for around 17 to $20 for the pair.
@@sixtyfiveford That's way more doable. Thanks!
I put those same ones on my truck for fog lights. They are great lights!!!!
They put out a ton of light.
Those look great. I think another benefit of the way you did it is maybe a greater chance of keeping water out. I've seen tons of those cheap led lights with water in the lenses
That's why I went with the Auxbeam brand as no water has gotten in the others over the years of sitting outside. These are cheap at 9bucks but not the cheapest. I think you can find ones for around 5bucks these days but they leak and never put out good light.
I can just barely keep the stock ones going nd I sure like the way Gingers ears went up! THanks, Buddy nd GBWYall!
I have to be careful saying the frisbee word around the house.
@@sixtyfiveford Brings on ear flutterings!
Updating my comment. Interesting idea, but I have gotten burned on LED lights in the past. However, I missed the brand name Auxbeam the first time I watched. I have a friend that put Auxbeam on his 1985 Ford F150 ,replacing the sealed beam housings. His headlights are FANTASTIC. Nicely done artwork to use the vintage housings.
That's why I didn't just swap bulbs. I don't think you can win by putting led bulbs in a housing made for reflectors. The reflectors are always designed to take a pin point of light from the center of the housing and focus it. These aftermarket replacement bulbs can't place the light source dead center and can't be focused correctly. They scatter the light everywhere. The only way to get LED headlights work in a car is to buy a complete new housing designed for LEDs where all the LEDs face forward. That is the idea with me using these stand alone lights inside the housings. If I would have just bought the LED bulbs to swap in they would have been dismal.
@@sixtyfiveford ❤️Yes, gotcha! I missed the brand name the first time around plus the proof's in the pudding. Wonderful light output!
Always cool seeing that truck. I admit I was hoping you were gonna go all frankenstein on them n gut the new lights n rig just the bulbs in the back of the case
I debated going that direction and took the easy way.
Do the neighbors ever wonder what the runway sequence is or if they are having a close encounter of the 65th kind?
Another good video. And another video that makes me happy that I am not your next door neighbor
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.
Those look great and look like some really expensive lights now.👍.
I just did the same thing to my old retro truck lights. Great minds think alike right! lol :)
Very cool!
Nice update!! Would've been cool if you used your meter to measure the electrical draw before and after.
The LEDs are 18 watts each. So 72watts/6amps for four lights vs 400watts/34amps for halogen.
@@sixtyfiveford The less work the alternator and battery have to do, the longer they will last, generally.
Looks good to me..I do like the remote light bar
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.
Pretty sweet
Thanks Man.
Keeping the look of a 70s to 80s truck with those rear lights..yet has a light bar cab mounted up front.. lol
Awesome stuff now I know a decent brand to buy, I know LEDs are the way to go these days but man if you ever come across an old pair Dick Cepek Super Off Roaders buy them ! they have a 7" fluted lens best lights I've ever owned.
I've seen the 6" Dick Cepek but never the 7"
My man needs to sell me that roll bar 🤣🤣
do they get hot being enclosed in those? I know high power leds can put out quite a bit of heat.
They don't even get warm to the touch.
Those are great idea's. I love that front facing light bar. New back up lights work great as well. Great job. Thanks for the video. Why is that front facing light bar so much brighter than the rear facing lights?
The front bar has probably 100 LEDs vs the 12(6each) in the rear lights. The front bar is almost too bright and I wish I could dim it down.
Wanna play frisbee? 😂🐕 ears swivel to attention lol,what a fun dog 😄
She's a ton of fun.
@@sixtyfiveford red heeler 🐕?
@@neilcrompton3488 Yes. Red heeler also known as an Australian cattle dog.
@@sixtyfiveford had no idea u had them in the usa,im from victoria australia 🇦🇺
Any problems with heat build up having the cooling fins sealed up like that?
Little pod lights like this never even really get warm.
@sixtyfiveford👍👍😎🇺🇸 thank you my friend for sharing your knowledge. I believe if you were near me we would get along well because I relate to your ideas (you always ahead of me). Keep up with the good work brother and stay safe as much as you can 🤘🤘
Thanks Man.
Quite the light. I'd like round one's I'll have to do some research.
I like the way the bigger lights look on older vehicles.
😊👍
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it.
What size light are those pods I'm doing this to mine definitely
They're 4 inch. I think they cost me around $8 a piece.
These are what I used for reference:
LED POD lights 4pack FLOOD: amzn.to/2GDMS34
LED POD lights 4pack SPOT: amzn.to/351NWqE
And i thought you were going full retro, spotlamps with ordinary bulbs connected directly to the colum lighting switch so the switch burns away.... No no relays, no fuse, just a dead switch lol.
When i was around 18, young men bodged lights in that way, not me as i liked motorbikes.
The expression on your dogs face ha ha :-D
The first set of lights I installed as a youth I learned my lesson. The switch melted away rather quickly.
What about Heat ?
Not a issue ?
Not an issue. The entire housing is an aluminum heat sink that never even gets warm with my testing. I think it's oversized for aesthetics to start with so even putting in the other light housing won't affect it.
Some of those cheap LED cubes have issues with moisture ingress... your secondary housing has a function beyond aesthetics
True.
Cool idea but leaving the back open will cause the housing to fill with water.
The back's not open. I cut the reflector housing that fits inside the main shell.
@@sixtyfiveford oh man now that I look again I see what your saying. My bad.
Why not just get an LED sealed beam bulb? They fit right in where a sealed beam goes, plug and all, and cost less than 50 bucks.
Because these are around $10 and way brighter.
@@sixtyfiveford Ehh, I dont know about brighter. I got some LED sealed beam bulbs for my 69 C10 and they are just as bright as any other LED on the road. I like the universal part thing, if the LED bulb breaks on a road trip I can get a sealed beam headlight at the grocery store for 8 bucks.
youve contained the heat from the leds inside the old enclosure...shortening the life of the leds significantly.
These don't get warm at all. There are only 6 LEDs and the heat sink is way oversize for aesthetics.
They might heat up on you
Not gonna lie, I would just put the aux pods up by themselves and be done with it.
Hey why not. It'll function the same.
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Never personally owned a classic Ford to get the nostalgia vibes. The only Ford I've owned was a focus ztw wagon. And like most of my cars, I wound up in a love / hate relationship with it. I loved it until a mechanic wanted $600 to replace a $70 water pump... "Yaaaa... I'll just do that one in my driveway then..."
leds will produce heat, enclosing them will inhibit their cooling and lower life span.
These little pod lights don't get even get warm to the touch after hours of running. The Aluminum casing/heat sink is 20x larger than it needs to be for aesthetics.
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