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

[Greg Lemon]

I looked on Bob Danielson's site at all the modern improvements he has made
to his TR6, was surprised I didn't find a self leveling headlight
conversion page 🤔.

Maybe it is in the works...

Greg Lemon
TR250


On Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 8:44 AM Don Hiscock <don.hiscock at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----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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