[TR] Looking for an easy way to aim the headlights on my TR4A.

[Don Hiscock]

Yeah, if I were to drive the TR in the dark!  It hasn't been out (for other
reasons) since I found out how badly aimed the headlights were. :)

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 8:29 AM DAVID MASSEY <dave1massey at cs.com> wrote:

> Wow.  You're going to piss-off a bunch of motorists.
>
> Dave
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Hiscock <don.hiscock at gmail.com>
> To: DAVID MASSEY <dave1massey at cs.com>
> Cc: dconnitt at fuse.net <dconnitt at fuse.net>; Triumphs at autox.team.net <
> Triumphs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wed, Jun 28, 2023 8:03 am
> Subject: Re: [TR] Looking for an easy way to aim the headlights on my TR4A.
>
> My TR3B recently came back from some work that involved having the front
> apron and headlights off the car.  I checked the headlights.  Ugh. Not even
> close.
> https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-66jhPmK/0/2d54dc90/X5/i-66jhPmK-X5.jpg
>
> I'm going to try H4 LEDs to reduce the load on the generator, and I'll get
> the vertical alignment taken care of then.
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 7:58 AM DAVID MASSEY <dave1massey at cs.com> wrote:
>
> I seem to recall, back in the day, that the you aim the lights to maintain
> a horizontal low beam cut-off so as not to blind oncoming traffic.  What I
> would do is find a flat parking lot next to a building and park the car
> close to and pointing at the building.  Mark the cut-off point on the wall
> (masking tape or something non-permanent).  Then I back the car away a good
> distance (20 to 50 ft) and adjust the headlights to that cut-off point.
>
> Back in the day, the old-school sealed beams were not very bright and a
> poor job of aiming wasn't a big deal.  A friend bought a late 70's Cadillac
> and complained about one of the head light and asked me to look at it.  I
> found that it was installed up-side-down and had been that was since
> leaving the factory.  But if you are using some high-performance lights
> aiming becomes more important.
>
> Dave
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Connitt <dconnitt at fuse.net>
> To: Triumphs <Triumphs at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tue, Jun 27, 2023 9:28 pm
> Subject: [TR] Looking for an easy way to aim the headlights on my TR4A.
>
> Thanks
> Dave Connitt
>
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