Flip-up headlights - adjustment confusion...
10-17-2004, 03:56 AM
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This has got to be the most frustrating project I've ever done on my car!!!
Gosh, I can get both sides to align perfectly when I losen all the nuts on the main rotator bar, but whatever I do - when I tighten the nuts and bolts on the rotator bar the light assemblies seem to twist again, leaving the passenger side is a hint higher. After lots of trying, I have it so that the difference is minimal, and it might even out when I work on the adjustment of the lights.
The top stoppers - I was not able to adjustthe one on the drivers side. There is a break line going right across the top nut, and my tools don't allow me to losen and turn it. I have to find out whether I absolutely have to adjust it - the lights don't seem to vibrate when they are up (only the passenger side vibrates when they are down, becuause of the stopper that I still have to adjust.).
Either way, this is a major ordeal, going back and forth, trying, adjusting, tightening, measuring, losening, readjusting,... you get the idea. Thank god modern cars no longer have flip-up headlights!!!
Sorry, I had to vent before I go down again and button things up.
Gosh, I can get both sides to align perfectly when I losen all the nuts on the main rotator bar, but whatever I do - when I tighten the nuts and bolts on the rotator bar the light assemblies seem to twist again, leaving the passenger side is a hint higher. After lots of trying, I have it so that the difference is minimal, and it might even out when I work on the adjustment of the lights.
The top stoppers - I was not able to adjustthe one on the drivers side. There is a break line going right across the top nut, and my tools don't allow me to losen and turn it. I have to find out whether I absolutely have to adjust it - the lights don't seem to vibrate when they are up (only the passenger side vibrates when they are down, becuause of the stopper that I still have to adjust.).
Either way, this is a major ordeal, going back and forth, trying, adjusting, tightening, measuring, losening, readjusting,... you get the idea. Thank god modern cars no longer have flip-up headlights!!!
Sorry, I had to vent before I go down again and button things up.
10-17-2004, 08:49 AM
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Found out it's the passenger side upper stopper that needs adjustment - only that those nuts don't come lose either - at least not with the leverage I get with the tools I tried. Will try again tomorrow.
