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How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
I converted my 7" sealed beam headlights on my '52 GMC to LED bulbs.
I will put links to the parts I used, and pictures on what I had to do. I have now put the same LED bulbs in 3 different vehicles. My friends '07 Jeep, my '67 Jeep, and my '52 GMC all with great results. I'll just say the bulbs work from 9V-32V so if you have a 6V truck it probably won't work.
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
I will be showing some pictures of my Jeep's lights sometimes but the conversion is the same.
This is the LED bulbs I bought. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Philips-LED-...NZDB8e&vxp=mtr I also bought new H4 headlight plugs from my parts store they where $6 ea.
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
You will also need a after market headlight lens/reflector. I used different ones in my Jeep and GMC it's really personal preference. Both mine use a H4 bulb. You can also find a lens from a newer Jeep 07-15 should work.
First 2 are my GMC Second 2 are my Jeep
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
As for installing it is really quite easy. The H4 ring comes off the bulb install it into lens.
Then you may have to trim the rubber but push it on. Click LED back into ring. 1st ready to go, don't worry about the wires they are for my headlight rings 2nd H4 ring installed 3rd rubber pushed on 4th Led bulb clicked back into place. The last pick is from my Jeep I cut off the red and black you see. GMC http://www.ebay.ca/itm/7-ROUND-DIAMO...item56993ba35f Jeep http://www.ebay.ca/itm/86-95-Suzuki-...item4ac7f40961
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
After that you should just be able to install like any other stock headlight. Just plug in and go.
This is a low and high beam shot from my GMC And a low and high beam shot from my Jeep for comparison. They are so nice and bright white, easy to see everything. Also the street signs glow.
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
Lower, nice how to on the LED set-up...Jim
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
Nice job there.
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
Good write up. Did you see any difference on your electrical system? Since the LED draws a lower current, did you change your headlight fuse to a lower rating?
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
Ya voltage gauge dropped a bit before now it doesn't move at all. No I left the fuse the same, won't hurt. The fuse will still blow if there is a short.
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
Thanks, good to know. I was thinking about putting in a 15-20 amp fuse, just as a precaution.
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
It's always a good idea to have fused circuits even if is higher amp than the draw.
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
Any preference ,one over the other ,style you did? Led ring vs, not
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
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Also, are you worried that the rubber seal around the bulb will get hot and melt? I know the heat sink of the bulbs get pretty hot. Here's a picture of mine installed. Thanks again for all of the info! ![]() Here's the lights I purchased: http://www.ebay.com/itm/322177905990...AIT&rmvSB=true
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
Nice write up. I thought about this on mine as the actual LED complete headlights are super expensive. Mine work great now so I will probably leave them for now as they are.
But these look nice.
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
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Ya man, the complete LED light's are crazy. Nice to know there are options.
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
That's why we are all here Dan
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Re: How to swap your sealed 7" to LED
Nice write up Lower. One other nice feature of these LED type bulbs is most of them have a cooling fan in the back of them to keep them cool and to prevent pre mature failure.
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