I had to do the same on both my headlights. Like you said works amazing and doesnt cost 300+ a ballast..

 

A nice thing about these ballasts is they are sealed. I did fix the crack on my healight so no more water should be getting in. but just incase it does, and pools at the bottom a little like before, its not going to run into the electronics. the plugs are up high, and the ballast iself is water tight.

-John

 

Good information if I find myself down this road one day! Thanks for sharing.

 

Very Cool!! Thanks for the write up, with all of the great photos!!!

 

no problem. it would be nice if they had somthing like this in the FAQ section, that would have saved me a lot of time figureing out what to do, what ballast to buy.

-John

 

thanks.. just did this myself.. i didnt even mount the new ballast to the old plate like you did.. just shoved it inside and it worked fine. Thanks!

 

Which kit did you buy on ebay? does it use the stock bulbs or are there special bulbs that go with the ballast you bought? From the picture it was difficult to see if the stock shielded cable from the bulb plugged directly into the new ballast or what. Thanks for your help

 

existing bulbs, our cars use D1S Bulbs, so as long as you get a "D1s Ballast" it will work. I got a "mini Phillips d1s ballast" although the one I got looked just like the Phillips one, but it didn't actually say Phillips. I am sure they are made in China like everything else, so far it is still awesome. only difference I notice is the factory one kicks on faster, this one turns on, and takes about 5 seconds to get to full brightness.

the shielded cable did not fit at first into the new ballast.. the new ballast's case was in the way, turns out the metal shielding around the connector pops apart, so the wire is still shielded, but the connector no longer has the metal around it. it seriously took 2 seconds with a small flat head screw driver.
the connector fits down inside a nice metal socket.

I might need to pick up another one, my other headlight now dosnt kick on most of the time. sometimes if I turn the lights off and then back on it will kick on.

-John

 

Tagged this thread a while ago since my left headlight started leaking and the low beam liked eatin' fuses. Thank you, kind sir, for posting this up.

Bought an Ebay ballast for $80 two months ago and finally took the time to tear the front end apart this weekend.

The ballast I received is identical to the one you used but it came with one pigtail and one short harness with sealed plugs for the ballast and the projector.

Unplugged the ballast to light harness and replaced with new. Plugged right in.

On the power pigtail I had to cut off the GM plug and splice the new one on.

For the left headlight, the main car harness plug to the headlight uses the first 5 slots. The rest are empty. #1 is the power for the HID. I believe it was four and five that are the grounds. My ground wire was on #5.

I just dropped and propped the new ballast into the back of the headlight assembly.

Fires up without eating fuses with no difference from the right side OEM unit.

Now I gotta figure out why my front fender lights aren't working and just noticed on a taco run that I've got a right side radio light out. I hate electronics. 99.9% of the time it's some joker taking a short cut at our expense.

 

Very good information.:thumbsup:

 

Nice write up John. I don't mean to Hijack this thread but I have another question. I changed my HBs and Fogs to HID and my OE Xenons are now not as bright. Can I upgrade the OE D1s bulb to a higher k#?

 

great info, i didnt know these even existed.
i found a couple on ebay, some say they come with the power in cable that you spliced and some dont specify. personally i have a bunch of those kicking around from all the conversion kits ive had but can you post a link to the one you bought and what cables it came with.

 

Well, my ballast was definitely fubar.

Once I looked up the EBAY receipt to refresh my memory I found I actually paid $63.98 for the unit. The EBAY seller now displays a different unit from the one we used.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220552135384&viewitem=

 

I am glad my use of this forum has helped someone else, usually it is just I who is getting the help.

Wow! that ballast looks like it was recovered from the titanic!

its a good fix we have figured out, its just a shame you have to remove the bumper cover to do it. its a pain.

when I did it, I threw in a set of 8000K bulbs.. nice light blue tint to them. but my left side died 4 months later. (still running the factory ballas on that side). anyway before removing the bumper again, I removed the airbox and plastic air dam (Hard!!!) and got access to the back of the headlight .. and sure enough it was just a bad bulb. it would sometimes kick on... so I was not sure if it was a loose connection at the bulb or what. everything was tight.. so I am going to guess it was the internal ignitor. I put the 6000K bulb I had saved away back in and now I at least have 2 headlights.

fun stuff. I like my 67 Camaro in the fact when I change the bulb, its one piece with a new lens too. oh the simple times.

-John

 

i'M enjoying this thread a learning a lot, will probably comment or ask questions later. Nice Camaro bro! 10 minute headlight change, $10, lol.

 

I am having the exact same problem with mine. And I'm 99% sure it's the ballast.

When the lights are turned on it lights up and then turns to a brownish color for about 20sec. then it's off. I hope it's just the ballast.

 

its hard to tell from this angle but are those vette C6 rims on that 67?

btw thanks for this amazing write up.i just ordered one of these ballasts because mine flicked off last night but it powered back on.. i figure having it in case it blows is better than waiting for it to blow, then ordering it and having to wait. im also going to change out the bulbs at the same time but im going to switch to 6000K from the stock 4300k.

i just paid $49.98 or whatever with shipping for it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180543137773

 

Just replaced my ballast. $62.00 from Ebay.

Great right up John, works like a charm.

 

John where are you at in Phoenix?

 

I have a question....

Will a D2S HID kit work with our headlights? IIRC the bulb mounts the same, except one has the ignitor on the back of the bulb and the other doesn't. Can anyone shed some light on this? My driverside light flickers on and off when I get on it.

 

My driver side light comes on but then flickers off after driving awhile. Sometimes it comes back on then off, etc. Does this sound like a ballast going bad? So you have to remove the bumper and light assembly to change the ballast?

 

That happen to me on my drivers side and it turned out to be a bad bulb. I still using that same ballast, although I probably should have replaced it. When my ballast went out on the passenger side, the bulb would't come on at all.

You have to remove the front fascia to get at the headlights. I have it down to a science.

 

My driver side is going out also, flickers on and off.

My question is, I can get a whole kit (2 bulbs, 2 ballasts) for $40+shipping. But they are D2S bulbs....will they still work?

 

Do you have pic on how you got the after market ballast to work? how did you do the wiring?

 

I did this exact mod it worked perfectly also my ballast looked fine but it would randomly flicker my light replaced it with one of these fom dtm and it is all good

 

what kind of power wires did you use.