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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
I considered LEDs also. I already put LEDs on the fire bird and suburban. I found LEDs will ice up in a good winter mix storm even when they are on, they just don't make enough heat to prevent ice build up.
With that giant heat sink the head light housing cover wouldn't fit. If that heat sink ribbon did fit under the cover, putting the cover over the heat sink kind of defeats the purpose of having a heat sink.
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Same with HIDs.
Where you can feel the heat if you put your hand in the beam of a halogen lamp, you can't with HIDs even though the light is much brighter. But my headlight covers are curved and slanted sideways, so there is not much buildup. At highway speeds it clears itself basically. At low speed snow sticks, I have to clear it once in a while.
For the heat sink you are supposed to bore a hole through the housing and let it hang out... but if the housing has metal, you could make it touch that. Maybe fold it back against the lower part of the reflector.
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