Headlight Installation

This weekend, we switched gears a bit and moved to the front of the car to install the headlights. The kit comes with a pair of Hella lights, which should do a great job of lighting our way once installed.

The installation was fairly straight forward. The most difficult part was tightening the nut on the underside of the shock upright. Note that you'll need to remove the front shocks that you had probably previously installed.

On the underside of the head lamp, where the mounting stud comes out, take care to ensure the stud is seated correctly. The stud has a square end that fits down into the housing. If this is not seated correctly, you wont be able to create enough tension to hold the lamp assembly upright.

Tightening the nut on the underside of the upright gave us fits. We taped up the connector pins and routed the wire pigtail through a Harbor Freight impact socket. The socket had a hole drilled in the side of it from the manufacturer. We stuck a phillips screwdriver in that hole and used it to turn the nut to tighten the assembly down. We were able to get it fairly tight. See the pic above.

For reference, the order of assembly looked like the illustration on the left. (I'm quite pleased with how my illustration turned out, but note the flat washer at the bottom may have been a lock washer instead.)

Once each light was mounted, we slid the pigtail through the upright, body and into the engine compartment. We untaped the pigtail and slid the pins into their proper slots in the supplied connectors.