Re: Headlights and bulbs

[Schuyler Wrobel <schuyler62@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been using 1157's in my tail/brake lights for a long time, matter 
of fact I think thats what was there when I
got the car back in 88. the only problem I can see is the center of my 
tail light lens is starting to melt, when viewed from the inside. I got 
some spare lenses at the spring fling swap-meet a couple of years back 
and noticed that they were almost completely melted through? so I 
drilled those out and put blue dots in 'em. That's what's on my wagon 
now, so far so good.

 I tried the 1157 LED's, tail light bulbs, just to see how they would 
look and work.
and, well, they didn't, nothin', didn't light up at all. or line up, I 
think was the problem? I think the contacts were
a 1/4 turn out of faze? no matter what I tried they just would not 
light up so I took them back to Autozone and
that was that. I've talked to other car guys since, and they also had 
problems with them. Have not tried other
brands, but a friend of mine had success by rewiring some LED brake 
light bars out of a late model caddy.

Schuyler 62 Dodge Dart 440 wagon w/ Poly 318
 <http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/ml-wrobel62.html>
On Aug 28, 2005, at 8:18 AM, Tom Duross wrote:

> Well, I emailed with 1 of them and he stated that if I stayed with 50W 
> on the headlights, I would OK and that's what the original 4001/2 dual 
> headlamps or the 6012 single style were.  I can't find any 
> documentation on the wattage of these originals so I'm hoping he's 
> right.
>
> The tail/stop/turn/backup/license plate/etc. are proving to be much 
> more of a challenge though.  My car (cah) has 1034's and 1073's for 
> the most part (paht) and some vendors are suggesting 1156 and 1157's 
> as replacements. Anyone know about this?  Anybody?  Buehler?
>
> The other pa.. side of the story is current usage.  LED's use much 
> less than filament bulbs to many are calling for capacitors to be cut 
> (ouch) in-line before EACH bulb.  I like the look and brightness of 
> LED's on the newer ca.. automobiles but I'm not sure I want to cut my 
> harness up.
>
> So I'm holding off on the small bulb to LED changeover until I see 
> some response from you guys and do some more looking and asking.
> At 20-30 bucks a piece and maybe more for capacitors I want to know 
> more before I go toasting relays and switches/fuses.
> Measure twice, cut once, I always say.  No pun intended, well why not. 
> :P
>
> Tom Duross
> Bahstin
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <Dodger7998@xxxxxxx>
> To: <1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:26 AM
> Subject: Re: Headlights and bulbs
>
>
> My only thoughts on changing out the headlights are,,,,,,,what  is the
> wattage on the new lamps, is it going to overload the old wiring? will 
>  you need to
> install relays to handle the new load
>
> dodger