Fog light placement

[Darkrider]

Thats part of it and the fact the hd harness adds more then 4hi...it is made out of marine grade 12 ga wire and adds a relay to get full voltage from the battery instead of trying to power higher wattage bulbs/hids through the stock undersized wiring.

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[bluex]

I don't get why everyone rides the Mean Green HD headlight harness or nothing bandwagon. I wired my 4 high myself and the HIDs work fine.

It's putting a big strain on your headlight switch then. On these trucks the voltage for the lighting all goes through the headlight switch and dimmer. That's why the switch gets so hot. using the relay harness takes a majority of the load off the switch since all it's doing now is firing the relays. Plus like I said you get full voltage at the bulbs instead of 11v or worse.

Mean greens harness is the best I've used, which is why I recommend it. It's made with real 12 ga wire of good quality, good relays etc. I've used the lmc harness before an basically had to rebuild it after about 3 or 4 months. I haven't touched barons harness since install. Those Chinese harness are notorious for using under sized wiring that appear to be the right size because the insulation is much thicker than it should be.

With anything your mileage will vary an I'm glad your setup is working for you. I could have done a 4 hi myself to, but since I was getting the hd harness I just had baron add it in....

 

[Vortec Lover]

It's putting a big strain on your headlight switch then. On these trucks the voltage for the lighting all goes through the headlight switch and dimmer.

HOLY- what meathead designed THAT???? I'm not an electrician in any sense of the word but that is just plain wrong! haha

 

[bluex]

Fellow forum friend/gmt400 owner loyalty

Barons product speaks for itself. Most of y'all should know me well enough by now to know if it was junk I'd say so.

Usually all you hear about stuff is bad things an the problems people have. Is it so bad that some of us are happy with the purchases we've made an speak good things about/recommend them?

I've dealt with the frustration of rebuilding something I paid good money for thinking I was getting a "deal" only to wind up with 3x the original cost in it by the time it was fixed.....

 

[Darkrider]

It's putting a big strain on your headlight switch then. On these trucks the voltage for the lighting all goes through the headlight switch and dimmer. That's why the switch gets so hot. using the relay harness takes a majority of the load off the switch since all it's doing now is firing the relays. Plus like I said you get full voltage at the bulbs instead of 11v or worse.

Mean greens harness is the best I've used, which is why I recommend it. It's made with real 12 ga wire of good quality, good relays etc. I've used the lmc harness before an basically had to rebuild it after about 3 or 4 months. I haven't touched barons harness since install. Those Chinese harness are notorious for using under sized wiring that appear to be the right size because the insulation is much thicker than it should be.

With anything your mileage will vary an I'm glad your setup is working for you. I could have done a 4 hi myself to, but since I was getting the hd harness I just had baron add it in....

This right here is why most of us rock barons harness

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[Sumbitch]

I was thinking the same as Half Assed, I could probably do my own 4-high mod and call it good.

but will I? 98% sure I won't. As good as I am with wiring (its my only specialty), I wouldn't trust myself with wiring up something I'm very unfamiliar with from scratch. HIDs being very unfamiliar to me. No, the 4-Hi isn't only for HIDs, but if you do the 4-Hi, you pretty much are putting HIDs in eventually. I've done just about everything else with aux lighting though, so I'm not totally clueless.

And if there is ANYTHING I hate more than things that break on trucks, its things that break on trucks that you put a lot of time and effort installing less than 6 months prior.

 

[1997chevydriver]

I had originally made my own 4 hi relay kit and used HID's (high and low) and burned out my headlight switch within 3 months. After I replaced the switch (junkyard special) and bought/installed Barons harness I have had no issues, misfires of the HID's, and have 4 hi (which is really usefull at night on country roads)

And I have 2 Walmart special lights in the diesel bumper which I will be buying a harness for them from Baron eventually so I can make use of my OEM foglight switch.

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5K low/high HIDs and Halogen fogs

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[95C1500]

I had originally made my own 4 hi relay kit and used HID's (high and low) and burned out my headlight switch within 3 months. After I replaced the switch (junkyard special) and bought/installed Barons harness I have had no issues, misfires of the HID's, and have 4 hi (which is really usefull at night on country roads)

And I have 2 Walmart special lights in the diesel bumper which I will be buying a harness for them from Baron eventually so I can make use of my OEM foglight switch.

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My god I love this truck!!!

 

[Sumbitch]

diesel bumper.... my OEM foglight switch....

SO JEALOUS!

 

[Mschaffer92]

Not to steal the thread but but does anyone know as far and hooking up the fog lights with an oem switch on a 97 gmc ecsb that didnt have them before? Like where they would be plugged in to the fuse box and what not?

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