I just got rid of my HIDs because I got tired of blowing ballasts and not having any to replace when needed. I never checked out DDM, but it looks like an awesome site! Do you know if by chance the 55W HID kits come with the relay harness? Or is the harness sold seperately?

 

im fairly sure that none of ddm's kits come with the relay harness but they sell one on their site

 

My HID's I bought from a "friend" of mine.. Ended up being stolen Porsche HID's. Anyways, obviously they don't fit exact. So some marine grade clear apoxy and bam perfect...Had them for 20k

 

i have lightning replica's with hid's and mine fit great no problems but i guess you figured out what was happening anyways cant wait for pics should look great can go wrong with the l style lights

 

Everything is good, but how the hell do I adjust the headlights??? I might take it into Ford and have them adjust it. Is there like a standard of how it should be done??

 

Ummm.... where's the pics???

 

i was about to say the samething

 

If the 97-03 headlight housings are anything like the 04-08 headlight housings, you can't adjust the height of the beam. They are factory adjusted permanently. I don't know how Ford would adjust them, I can imagine spacers or something. Check the back of the headlamp or it's mounting points. There should be a screw or something you can turn to adjust the vertical axis of the beam.

 

Pics will come. I'm gonna go over to ford mañana and have them adjust the headlights. Hell, it's their truck...

 

Here's how I aimed my headlights: Look at your headlight housings. There should be a mark, such as a cross or circle at the center. Measure to the ground from the mark, and center to center from each light housing. Find a wall with level ground. Measure from ground level to the height of the center of your heads, and mark a line. I used masking tape. Now move your truck so it's 25 feet from the headlight to the wall, and hit the lights. On the 97-03 there are three adjuster bolts to aim with. With my HID's I aimed them so the brightest spot of light was just touching the lower portion of the tape. The HID's are very bright, so you want them a bit lower than stock lights. I had to cover one side at a time to get the best view of each beam, and I made sure they were the same distance apart in the horizontal as well. On my rig, I found it was easier to remove the headlight housings and adjust the bolt, then replace and test the position. I tried adjusting them while installed and could not get a tool onto the bolts to turn them. I understand you can get a special tool to fit this, but I'm way out in the sticks, so no parts store here. I used the same technique with my fogs, cause they were a bit out of whack,too.
Hope this helps,

 

The only time you want to adjust the height of your stock lamps is if you ran drop shackles, leveling spacers, or a lift kit. Stock housings are designed to aim in such a way that you get decent distance with your lowbeams while not blinding people in front of you but still getting great deflection off reflective surfaces. Even with HIDs it's still not suggested to lower your beam if your vehicle is stock height, otherwise it just defeats the purpose and design of having headlights.

 

https://www.f150online.com/forums/su...light-aim.html

Here's how to adjust your headlights

sorry just realized this was for 04-08 sorry

 

so however the lights are shipped is how they should be installed? I shouldn't adjust the screws? Even the lightning headlights are they adjusted correctly?

 

Lights should only be adjusted to correct the beam. Installing a Xenon system does not alter the pattern of the beam (since the globe is located the same distance from the base as a filament), only intensifies it (since HIDs operate in a manner that the light is intensified well over the light output of filament halogen bulbs). If it is correctly aligned (stock per say) then the intense light will still shine on the ground for the most part. The problem comes when people level their truck. Then, and only then would you want to adjust the beam to proper height (altered by either leveling spacers which raise the front end alone thus increasing the front end alignment degree, or drop shackles which lowers the rear end, lifting the front alignment degree).

When you purchase aftermarket headlight housings, you will want to ensure that your lights are properly aimed. Measure the height of the center of your headlamp housing to the ground, then shine your lights at a wall about 25ft away. You want to make sure that the most intense part of the beam is no higher than the measurement of the ground to the center of the housing. This will make sure your lowbeams are not aiming "up". Adjust as needed, then you're set.

 

OK thanks for that. But how do I know when the light is horizontally correct? (the side output)