headlights.

can anyone help with the dimensions for a headlight alignment / adjustment
board for ex mod 1981 series 3 lwb.

....and mike sobota spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...


> can anyone help with the dimensions for a headlight alignment /
> adjustment board for ex mod 1981 series 3 lwb.

I have always used the garage doors. Drive right up, mark the lamp centres
with a felt pen, reverse in a straight line 10m or so, make the dots on the
doors into crosses. When night falls, switch the lights on and aim the flat
edge of the dipped beam just below the horizontal line. This should put the
main beam centres exactly on the centre of the crosses. Play until happy.
I've done many vehicles like this, and I've never failed an MoT on beam
alignment yet!

HTH

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Rich
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On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:55:43 GMT, "mike sobota"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>can anyone help with the dimensions for a headlight alignment / adjustment
>board for ex mod 1981 series 3 lwb.
>

Is easy. measure the height of the centre of the headlamp from the
ground, and measure the distance between the centres of the headlamps.
Make crosses on a wall the correct distance apart, and the height of
the headlamps up from the ground. The vehicle should now be positioned
about 25ft away from the marks (on level ground), with the centre of
the vehicle in the centre of the two marks (ie the marks represent the
position of your headlamps if they were attached to the wall, not your
car)

Now adjust the headlamps so that the MAIN beams are aligned with the
vertical marks of the crosses, but with the centre spot of the beam
2inches below the horizontal lines of the crosses.

Diagram as follows: http://www.cbmsys.co.uk/beamset.jpg

The diagram shows one headlamp, just apply the procedure to both
headlamps.

Alex