Oh so YOU’RE that truck that keeps on tailgating me with the power of the sun

Dustin a few years ago I swapped out the headlights in my 1998 Jeep Cherokee to LED's and during the first blizzard I learned the hard way that LED headlights are an absolute "no-go" in snowy conditions. in my case the LED's did not produce enough heat to keep the headlights free of ice and snow build up. 100 miles from home I had to pull over every 5 minutes to clear the headlights off. I could not see at all! Since then I upgraded the wiring harness as the old one wasn't delivering full voltage to the bulbs. The dim OEM headlights were what prompted me to switch to LED in the first place. With the upgraded harness and now back to OEM style headlights/bulbs my lights are plenty bright and produce enough heat to keep the lenses clear in winter driving conditions. It may be possible to treat your new lenses with something like RainX to mitigate ice/snow build up but after my blizzard experience I will not use LED headlights again in a winter driving vehicle unless the lenses are heated.

Who you kidding Dustin, Mick did a great job installing those new headlights.

Princess Auto and Amazon retail a universal led mounting bracket. They mount on any edge, I’d recommend putting those killer spots on the front corners of the hood nearest the windshield. Thanks for making these incredible videos and allowing us to live vicariously through you.

Those lights look great! Pods are where its at

The neat little spotlights , at 2.31, would be good for backing-up as you tow your boat most of the time.

Street legal pods or light bars in BC are only street legal if wired into high beam switch and mounted level with or below headlights. Or if they are fog lights mounted below headlights and go off with high beams. Highly recommend going away from the LED bulbs if you find the Color not your style. A quality halogen bulb will give the light you like and not completely blind every oncoming vehicle.

You could use the spot lights on the side of the camper for perimeter lights at the campsite - that’s what I did with a spare pair I had. I also had a small light bar that I didn’t want on the front so I mounted it on the back above the door into the camper and I have it on a switch for camp set up and as an off road back up light - really helps see where you are reversing into. Be useful with the boat trailer, I’d think. 👍🏻

Looking cool 😎 That extra spare would come in handy in the back up high on the rig for lighting it up for when you're backing up ! Also wire it inside the camper an extra switch so you can spook 👻 off the Sasquach's and bears 🐻 🐻‍❄ 😆 or any intruders that might happen by ! Looking forward to this weekend buddy ' Aloha

Thanks for enlightening us with ur updates!

Those two shooter pods would be great ditch lights. We really find them useful when in the woods at night. Widens the light output towards the sides.

Lights in the wheelhouse are a neat thing, as you can see whats happening around your wheels off-road. And when you need to repair a puncture or change a tire at night. 😅

HI Dustin. Suggestion. Take the 4" lights out of the bumper holes and use them on the back. Then install the 2 beam lights you showed in their place. Also, keep in mind using yellow light for fog and snow. they work.

I saw you this evening just before dark and didn't notice bright headlights. I agree cooler lights cause less eye fatigue. I will flash my amber spots at you next time to say howdy. Red crew cab, red canopy

Dustin ! I'm thouroughly impressed ! Never thought you'd be the go to guy for the best off road lights . Thanks man ! Hey, I'll bet you can see where the sun don't shine now ! 🤭👍

Great Job Dustin! Love the updates and the lights look great! On our Ambulances I worked in we had "scene" lights on the side and rear. They worked great as utility lights for when you were working around the rig. Like you do at night! Just an idea! Can't wait for your adventures to start! stay safe!

Old school floor dimmer switch for the pods. Gives a little more flexibility.

Dustin, Those extra spots would be good to mount on the overhang over the cab, at a 45degree angle. Switchable, so you can shut them down. I’ve found lights like this good at night for narrow trails. Just a thought.

Those spotlights would definitely be good in the back but also on the sides.

"I seee tha Light!" I do a lot of night driving and one of the things I want to do is mount "Hood Hinge" lights angled to the side and switched individually... this way when driving in dark stretches I can switch the right side on only to illuminate to the side better... I think it would help you also in the back country

Love your videos your definitely one of my favorite KZfaqrs. You should definitely look into a 12k winch for your truck definitely might come in handy one day

All you need now is a winch and an offroad bunper !

Id add a couple to the back on a switch so you can see when reversing on a dark back road.

Looking good, Dustin! They're even legal in BC as long as wired into your Brights like you mentioned. I know who I'm following if I see you out there this year!

Here in BC, you have to have those front facing lights covered if you're on public roads. You can uncover them on Forest Service Roads. I have heard anecdotally that you can wire them into your high-beam control to make them legal but I don't know the specifics on that. Other places may have different laws, so read up before you cross borders (ie. Yukon, NWT, Alaska since you mentioned heading north this summer)

Auxbeam makes a sweet 3 colour led bulb that you can change the colours of it. I have them in my second gen and they’re awesome!

I need something like that for my Dakota! Yeah maybe those other lights on the back hooked into your reverse lights.

To solve the fast blink issue you need to install an in line can bus. It puts more electrical load on the wire

u need to get the neutral digital led flasher relay that's look clear in design and matches ur 2 or 3 pin design BUT IT HAS TO HAVE THE GROUND WIRE COMING OUT FROM ITS BODY for the dodges to work don't know why but I tried all kinds but the model with its own ground wire has worked flawlessly for over 5+ years and still going strong & definitely worth it

So much knowledge and prep to get us out to those beautiful places you share with us. Thank you take care out there.

great job buddy

🎶You can see clearly now that new lights are on!🎶Awesome Dustin I switched over to led also for off road driving what a difference 👍good job mate 🇨🇦👍

The best days are the days you upload a video! I love watching the adventures, seeing drone footage and the “you” duo in the garage lol

Dustin, Try a EP34 flasher unit. If you have a 3 prong flasher, this will cure your LED issue. Hope that helps!

Smart looking I like them maybe other lights on the back would help for sure.Take care Dustin fr Ontario.

Love watching updates about the rig!

This a very light hearted video ,,

Try aiming them to the sides to light up either side of the trail for your extra lights, or like you were thinking to the rear to keep an eye on the boat. You're moving along quite nicely with the winter projects Dustin! Love the updates as you go along!

If no one has said it. You need ballast resistors for the turn signals and youll be back in action. The ballast resistors pull a stronger current to let the truck know there is something there

I don't know why Dustin but im not getting your vids after being subscribed for long time now? Great vids Thank you.

Good video 😊

Pretty bright idea. 👍👍

I need those on my car, granny can't see as good as she used ta 😂

Lights are awesome thanks for the video

I was going to say on the back of the rig for the spots.

I would keep the pods on a separate switch from the high beams if I was you. The two extras you have can be mounted on your hood corners near the windshield pointed hard left and right uses sort of as search lights or work lights and could be on another separate switch. Look up S-pod or trigger 6 shooter for excellent accessories switching.

There should be a hack to be able to possibly run a resistor on the positive of the flasher unit to be able to make it like it is sensing the LED lights.

sure hope your LED lights don't incinerate peoples iris's .....lol Love your videos !

glad you know where your eyebrows sit Dustin

Looks slick. Next you should Rhino line the cab flat black. It would also reduce scratch/rust when traveling in rough terrain.

Very cool. I had my headlights buffed out but the fogged up look was back in less than a year. If I did night driving I would replace them. I like the look of your new ones.

Just a thought, let's upgrade that old dodge grill, and wrap the can in like a cool hunter green or maybe a navy blue!

You might wanna check the headlights some aftermarket ones don't come "sealed" and water can get inside, you'd have to add some silicone caulk or something to the seams.

Try Diode Dynamics in Earth City, MO for a flasher relay. I swapped out the incandescent bulbs in my 2001 F-250 and it fixed the hyper flash.

I have always liked the PODS, or the original KC LED slimlights for the same reason. I want to aim them where they should be, so I am not just throwing a bunch of light in the same place. To wire into Highbeams, Super easy. IF you are using relays, route the trigger line to get power from the high beam +. Then when you have on your high beams, and the switch is on. Everything comes on. My preferred method. But also allows you the flexibility to have the highs on, and the other’s off when on hwy. If no relays, the + for your switch should come from the + of your high beams.

Looks great, couple of things though your lights will get crusty in bad weather, they don't produce heat. I have lighting 360 degrees on my rig so my night vision extends everywhere, and I can turn lights off on the sides and back if wanted....good job on the truck cheers👍

BE CAREFULL WITH THE SPOT LIGHTS. SOME STATES WONT LET YOU WIRE THEM IN TO THE HIGH BEAM SWITCH BECAUSE YOU CAINT USE THEM ON THE STATE ROADS ONLY OFF ROAD, TO BE SAFE KEEP THE SWITCH SEPARATE .😁😁😁😁

Ironically my Dodge pickup is in right now getting a new headlight after I had a little oooopsie in a Starbucks drive thru… most expensive coffee ever! Thanks lightening the day in order to shine more light in on rubbing in my ooooopsie. Or I could lighten up a bit and learn how to drive in a drive thru 🤷🏼‍♂️

Dude. I need to check your channel more often. I missed the last notification until I got this evening.

Nice! Looks like a UFO coming at you.

And on the 4th day, Dustin said….”Let there be light!” 💡 💡

Given where you like to travel, I'm surprised that you don't have some kind of moose bumper to protect your radiator. I also have a remote place (North of Kenora, Ontario) and I have a massive bumper replacement on my 2011 RAM 1500, because in the case of an animal strike or sliding off the road into a tree, it's a 17km walk to the nearest cell signal. Also replaced my notoriously bad headlight bulbs with 55watt HIDs. I prefer a 6000k (bright white) bulb myself, rather than than the yellowish coloring of a warmer bulb in the 3500k range that comes stock on most cars with incandescent bulbs.

There is a real common relay you have to install for LED lights that blink. Otherwise they blink fast. There are lots of KZfaq videos about that.

WOW those be bright. Keep up the great work. Whats the count down till you hit the road again?/ Systems test run before next Adventure?

I didn't notice new lights before, but I think you have the lighting covered.

Friendly suggestion: don't wire the pods into your high beams. I did and when I was approaching on-coming traffic i had to go back to low beam far sooner than needed (most tmes leaving me still wanting the high beam visibility for another 500-1000m). I rewired them to a simple on/off switch. No regrets.

Couger headlights are the best

Carefully adding anything into your stock harness I have a 1996 3500 the stock headlight wiring is very poor I'd keep the pods on their own switch

Imagine if you installed some high beams into the top front face of the camper! Does the Ol’ Gal have reverse lighting?

You should be able to wire in a relay to control the light pods with the high beams but be sure to have a switch so you can turn that off and just use the high beams. I’ve been seeing a lot of the van conversion mounting lights up on the cowl by the windshield. And PLEASE don’t be like a lot of idiots that are driving around on a clear night with their illegal yellow fog lights on. Many years ago (1970’s) I had several KC Daylighter Pencil Beams (150w) mounted on a fiberglass cover above the cab. Strange driving at night, in the snow with only those on. The snow would stop at the bottom of the beam so it looked like it wasn’t snowing in front of you, you were driving underneath it.

Ge night hawk are good bulbs .. not too blue. I hate the blue led. I tried lots of bulbs and found GE high hawks to be the best

Wooo woooo

I feel enlightened! Sorry! (50% Sorry 😋)

Led 💡

I ended up cleaning my stock ones. Aftermarket plastic is worse then Dodges. Won't matter when the diesel gells and leaves you stranded...😂😂😂

Ever thought about a winch? Or winch bumper?

Hey bud, wired my lights to high beam after 30 minutes they go out? 97 dodge like yours

Put the spotlights to the side on the camper. Would be nice if you could remotely operate.

Why not put the extra lights on the trailer?

Halo's😂😂

The ultimate light colour is 4300k, it’s been stated that anything above that luminosity drops, although my ridgid fog lights at 5000k seem good for all conditions, when you are in dry conditions light colour doesn’t matter much, it’s on dark rainy nights you don’t want higher than 5000k although my led bulbs on my car are 5800k and night driving in dark rainy conditions are still good, although it’s due to people’s ignorance as to why we see the crazy 6000k plus blue lights, I think anything above 6000k is illegal but I can’t confirm that, all I know is that I threw 6000k bulbs in the garage once because I couldn’t take them back and I couldn’t see on wet dark nights.. let’s hope that your lights look good on dark nights, and for all the people complaining about bright lights at night blinding you.. then stop looking at them, im serious, people don’t realize that they stare at the bright lights instead of looking at the lines in the road, just remember that next time you are encountering bright lights.

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You can't clean them up. Ive tried everything and had to get new ones. It's the same at work with our Peterbilts and Macks, everyone has an idea and nothing has worked

The reason there's no adjustment on the LED headlights is that you're blinding everyone coming your way anyway, so it doesn't matter where they point.

go 6000k for the headlights.

Would you trust this dude? I would after the lights were shining on him exposing his true nature...

Too bad you bought the cheapest headlights. Probably a few bucks more you could have got real ones that you can aim/focus so you’re not bothering other drivers. LED lighting is excellent but most people forget to aim the headlights properly and the result is a bunch of people condemning the product.

Blind everyone on the road with leds in the incandescent housing Don't be an ass spend the money buy a projector and put them in there.

Is this guy married

At this point a new truck would have been cheaper. 🙄🥸

Nice was going to suggest buuut i see in comments I'm to late they stole my idea oh the problems of living upside down on this gem Tell Mick he did a bang up job , which one point's cockeyed? ( Solar panel ) 🫢🥴😂👍🏼🤙🏼🤟🏼🖖🏼