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As you've been warned, don't bust 'em.
Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:47:46
In Reply to: Re: Headlight assembly replacement. How difficult?, Shawsheen, Fri, 21 Mar 2014 16:57:56
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And as you've also already guessed and been advised, possibly, even probably, they'll be spot on set just as they were on the other car. As a precaution, while you have them out, oil every possible joint with light oil or spray lube, then, with a socket on the screws, turn them a little to the left, a little to the right, coming back to the original setting. Then do again, a few turns either way, to free them up, so if you DO have to adjust them you'll know they'will move and not break.
The best improvement in 9000 headlights I know of is the "9005 mod", which see. You cut out the little nubs that keep a 9005, high beam, bulb, from plugging into the 9006 low beam jack. Then you add the 9006 o-ring onto the 9005 bulb, over the original smaller o-ring, install it where 9006 bulb was, and bingo, brighter lows, much better vision of whole area. And on hi-beams you see the road very well indeed.
The word is the bulb geometry is the same so the aim is identical to the low-beam aim and no one flashes brights at me so it seems they don't irritate other drivers either. I got my 9005s from junkyard cars, any same-era dual headlight car. You'll already have a pair from your old headlamps.
It's just a little tricky to get all three lobes of the bulb base under the spring prongs it twists into place under. Kinda hard to get at. But worth the pain in the neck.
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