There is no real good how-to or anything that I can find with real info about doing this. I understand the principal of changing the power to the 1157 bulb so it uses brighter filament (I'm guessing this is 27w instead of 8w since an 1157 is a 27w/8w bulb) correct?

The link in the how-to's is pretty damn ghetto if you ask me, clipping the nub off the bulb and wedging it into position (how it shouldn't sit from what I gather) with electrical tape. I'll pass on that method.

So, rewiring the bulb is the best bet, but I'm not quite getting what people are saying. Are you taking apart the 1157 bulb from its base and changing that, or the socket that holds the bulb, attached to the clearance light, or the wiring harness that plugs into that socket?

All i need is someone to tell me specificially what wires need to be cut/soldered into the correct position; everything posted is so vague.

Furthermore, I read somewhere that people who bridged it so both filaments light have had melting problems, which is understanable, but even just switching to the 27w, is this going to cause any fuses to blow?

 

bump.. anyone? gotta do this tommorow; so i need to know...

 

the 97-99 have a 2 wire harness and socket....so you have to buy a new (3 wire) socket. The ground stays ground and the parking light wire goes to the 27 watt filament. You can just test which one is the brighter one. Thats it.

 

Well I personally have never had any problems with this mod after 2.5 years of it (knock on wood) using APC superwhites and I did it the "ghetto" way and cut off the nub and stuck it in backwards. It doesnt go anywhere because the nub on the other side holds the bulb in the sockett. But whatever you want to do, I cant be bothered with rewiring it the hard way. It was aggravating enough rewiring the blinkers so they come on w/ the parking lights and then still blink as blinkers too.

 

I'm another who clipped the nub and it works just fine. Why make it harder on yourself?

~THT

 

since the '97 uses a dual wire socket, why not just use an 1156?

the 1157 is a 27/8w dual filament correct?
an 1156 is identically shaped, w/ a single 27w filament

That would bypass the need for any changes... no?

 

unplug the sockets, take out all the lights, then push the wire going into the bottom up and try to get the little plate at the bottom out. after that take a soldering gun and touch it to the top of the dot that has the wire on it. then touch the other one, when you see it melt stick the wire in. you might have to add some solder if nessicary. then you just line up the notch on the plate with the groove inside the socket and push it in while pulling the wire on the other side. NOTE: DONT FORGET ABOUT THE SPRING!!! it came from under the plate, it needs to go back or you might (WILL) have problems.