Official Tech thread: Bi-xenon retrofit for the 100 series Landcruiser (1 Viewer)

[hoser]

bamachem,

Well, you're comparing two bi-xenon kits to one PNP kit. Knock off one kit and the price difference isn't so much. A proper bi-xenon retrofit is head and shoulders above a PNP kit.... and you'll get HID HI beams too.

 

[Landbender]

Since a lot of people participated in the 100 series group buy, I thought it would be useful to have a separate thread on the retrofitting process. This thread will be a combined effort from all the members who were a part of the group buy. This thread will have a lot of info(hopefully) since there are a lot of people who will be venturing into this retrofit at once.

Hopefully it will be a useful tool for future 100 series owners that want to do a retrofit. There are a lot of unanswered questions regarding the difficulty of this project and hopefully they will be answered here.

The ideal setup for 98-05 100 series landcruiser:
Since the hundy has really no space for a larger projector in the low beam housing, Matt at theretrofitsource.com suggested one of their most popular projectors in a compact package, the morimoto mini h1 projector. The morimoto mini is essentially a plug and play projector if used in a 9006, H4, and H7 housing. The link is provided below

Stage III kit: Morimoto mini H1
Bi-xenon Morimoto Mini Stage III Kit (H1) - Complete Retrofit Kits from The Retrofit Source Inc

the kit comes with mini gatling gun shrouds, which are not mini by any means...they are ample size for the 100 series low beam location. If you want different shrouds it will require A LOT of trimming and may not look right! The stage III kit also comes with an HID kit and a wire harness, as well as adapter plates(which are rarely used because there is not enough room for the projector to lock in most of the time. Don't want to spend $270+ on a full kit? You can get the projectors only and use your current HID kit, but I suggest getting the bulbs from TRS!

Morimoto mini H1 projectors only:
Bi-xenon: Morimoto Mini (H1) - HID Projectors from The Retrofit Source Inc

Enough blabbering, lets get ready for those retrofits! I am doing a depo housing but these tricks can be used to do the oem housing as well

Quad xenon retrofit using depo headlights!

Part 1: opening the headlight

Begin by heating up the housing with a heat gun. When your headlight is made of glass, use the oven and set it to 170 degrees. Look up 2000UZJ's writeup for more details on that. For my purposes I used the heat gun and moved it from side to side to melt the butyl sealer. I recommend heating up two adjacent sides then prying and heating the headlight as you go further down the housing. It would help if you hold the housing and split the housing as a friend heats up preceding parts of the headlight. Also, wear gloves because it may burn your hand LOL

Part 2: Prepping the headlight and projector

You will want to open up your projectors and check if they fit without modification to the housing. You will need to remove the reflector! Dremel is your friend
For the depo housing, you will need to enlarge the holes for the headlight so that you can fit the projector into headlight housing. I enlarged all four holes at one time so cleanup is minimum

I decided not to cut the bixenon wire in the first two projectors in case I need to wire up the high beam in those projectors. Cover up all the wires and any place where light could leak out! If you do not, it may cause problems

Part 3: Mounting the projector

The morimoto mini H1 projector utilizes a threaded mount. Use the lock ring in the back to lock it up. You will need to take off the clip assembly which locks the bulb down

Now using the H7 adapter(depo housings use H7 bulbs), mount the projector in the manner shown. I only used the H7 adapter plates on the hi beam locations! In the low beam locations, I used the rubber gasket! The reason is because the H7 morimoto mini adapters do not fit the 4th gen projectors! NBD because I have done retrofits without the adapter plates before. I ran into a roadblock, but nothing that the dremel could not fix

Part 4 and 5:
https://forum.ih8mud.com/100-series...fit-100-series-landcruiser-2.html#post6744180

How did you seal the back? I opted for some heat shrink wrap but couldn't hurt to ask around

 

[GVegasG]

Are there any newer thread for 100 series regarding this topic? I am in planning stages

 

[FullyLitLED]

@GVegasG this is still the current thread, let me know if you have any process questions during the retrofit, I’m always willing to help

 

[Patassa]

Are there any newer thread for 100 series regarding this topic? I am in planning stages

DIY Land Cruiser Projector Retrofit

I've used the gattling gun shroud in other applications, but I just don't like the look as much with how large the reflector is on the early 100 series. I'm thinking if I could find a shroud that covers more of the low beam reflector, I would like it better. I might have to try some photoshop...

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DIY Land Cruiser Projector Retrofit

. Would you post links or part numbers to all the parts you used for the retrofit? Thanks! sure, i'll put one together!

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