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Shuan, / All, I haven't been to the drags in a while. In fact my daily driver is running strong but in no way strong enough to run drags! Well maybe, but at 155K miles i don't think I need something else to break.. lol. Guess i'm still holding out for a new SS.. Seems we have to weather the Chevy SS before any marketing genius decides SS styled trucks are still cool and sell. Good to see people are still loving the SS so much. Been a long time since I read the forum regularly! I'll try to make it out if i'm not out of town that weekend, birthday weekend! If I can't make it, I hope you all have a great time and light up them tires! Eric Cahoon - North Adams, MA transplant now Pittsfield, MA

Thanks for the replies guys. I guess I will switch out what appears to be the bad ballast with a a decent rikensport one I have from my other truck. I just need to determine if the ballasts are truely bad before contacting ddm. As for using the relay with the Rikensports in the s10, Why would they not work at all? Maybe when they are on I'll have to meter the leads to see if there is juice at all.

Hi guys, I don't post to the forums very often but I do read them. I am having problems with my HIDs in my truck. I started with rikensports which seemed to serve me well until I started getting misfires on the passenger side. After dealing with misfires for a while I had previously planned on adding HIDs in my high beams so I decided to switch brands and went with ddm tuning 55w. The ddm tuning seemed to look great and they still work in my high beams. Then seemed to last about 4 months before I started to again have misfires on my right passenger side low beam. I tried to switch the bulbs and the ballasts from side to side and detemined at a minimum it wasn't the bulbs. So I decided to order the relay harness kit recommended by ddm to prevent issues such as misfires. So I installed the relay harness wiring the in directly to the battery as recommended. When I turned on the lights I blew the fuse for the passenger side low beam. I thought I may have a reverse polarity on that side (as I read that may be possible in our trucks) so I replaced the fuse and switch the bulbs leads for the light. Again when I turned on the lights the fuses blew. So, frustrated, I removed the harness and wired back to the stock light leads in the truck and it nly fires the drivers side light. So for now I removed the relay harness and installed my stock halogen bulbs until I can figure out whats going on. Additionally I have a little 2wd s10 sport truck so I decided to put the rikensport lights in that truck. I get the same issue with the right side light misfiring. Although, a quick flip of the high beams and back to low a time or two tends to fire the light right up. I decided MAYBE just MAYBE the harness would do the trick in this truck. So i installed the harness here. When I turn on the lights nothing comes on. I hear the click of the relay but the light do not fire. Again thinking a polarity issue I flipped the leads on one of the bulbs. Nope blew that fuse. So now im back to square one. No harness with rikensports misfiring in the s10. and ddm tuning in the SS but only in the high beams. So far the highs are all I have gotten to work succesfully without misfires. Although the startup/warmup time is annoying when flipping between the two on a dark road. Any suggestion you guys might have for me would be appreciated. Should I be buying ANOTHER new set of ballasts? Should I mix the rikensport ballast with the ddm tuning ballast? Has anyone ever had an any issues with the relay harness? Thank guys Eric

Shaun I'm in.. Will be showing up after 9am.. I hope the weather holds out for everyone. I haven't been on the forum lately, seems I've been missing alot! Thanks for stopping me in traffic the other day to let me know about the meet.. haha! those SS's ain't hard to miss `eh? Eric

Speaking of Rotor Rot... sheesh fireman you ain't kiddin'.. Just completed full around brake job. My previous brakes where apparently garbage. The rear rotors exhibited a lot of rot and the semi-met pads were extremely glazed. The whole rear end backer plates where so rotted they flaked and were falling apart! Only did I realize you need to pull the rear hubs to remove the backer plates did I swear and throw tools all over.. Cut them off with a sawzall and tin snips.. I live in the north east (mass) and do a lot of driving on 87N and all though the New York Adirondacks and north country (near st. lawrence seaway).. All that salt from winter driving maybe rotted my brakes and plates out quick! Anyone else have this trouble? Does anyone know if backer plates are really required?? I would imagine most remove them to fit big brake kits in the rear? Rotors: Centric Cryo Stop http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/brakes.jsp?...&perfCode=S Pads: Adaptive One Ceramics w/Nulok from NAPA http://www.adaptiveone.com/

Just turned 85k. fixed: Front wheel bearing 60k steering wheel shaft clunk fix 60k new bilstein shocks 78k new all around brakes 85k Just completed full around brake job. My previous brakes where apparently garbage. The rear rotors exhibited a lot of rot and the semi-met pads were extremely glazed. The whole rear end backer plates where so rotted they flaked and were falling apart! Only did I realize you need to pull the rear hubs to remove the backer plates did I swear and throw tools all over.. Cut them off with a sawzall and tin snips.. I live in the north east (mass) and do a lot of driving on 87N and all though the New York Adirondacks and north country (near st. lawrence seaway).. All that salt from winter driving maybe rotted my brakes and plates out quick! Anyone else have this trouble? Does anyone know if backer plates are really required?? I would imagine most remove them to fit big brake kits in the rear? Rotors: Centric Cryo Stop http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/brakes.jsp?...&perfCode=S Pads: Adaptive One Ceramics w/Nulok from NAPA http://www.adaptiveone.com/ current issues: Has front end diff bearing "growl" which is very annoying.. looking to have bearings replaced soon. needs new rubber all around trying to decide on tires..