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Subject:Re: Where to aim the headlights? SA grill.
From:80 Westy Pokey
Date:Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:58:56 -0400

Aim your innner lights dead ahead, so when you flash them
people will get the hell out of your way....

;-)

Thanks,
Chris

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:29:29 -0400
>From: Jay L Snyder <Jay.L.Snyder@USA.DUPONT.COM>
>Subject: Re: Where to aim the headlights? SA grill.
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
>Before you remove your old lights, drive up to your garage
door and make a
>pattern of the current lights.   Switch headlights.  Pull up
to the same
>door, same spot.  Aim headlights to match.  I am a research
technician--I
>am used to solving these difficult problems for the PhDs!
>
>
Jay
>
>
>
>
>Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>@gerry.vanagon.com> on
09/27/2002
>01:22:00 PM
>
>Please respond to Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>
>
>Sent by:    Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
>
>
>To:    vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>cc:
>Subject:    Where to aim the headlights? SA grill.
>
>
>I am psyching myself up for putting in the 7" round lights
for the south
>african grill... i have the wires and relays and switches
and fuses and
>lights and holders and beer and much more stuff. Now so i
don't
>re-invent the wheel, is there is simple (as in w/ minimal
>trial-and-error) means to where and how to aim the lights?
Does someone
>have a dead-on formula for this that works? I know i can
install them,
>drive around and then tilt them up or down or left or right.
But is
>there a "real" way to do this? (LIke put the lights 8' in
front of you
>but 2' in the air, etc.). I'm a scientist and physicist-
give me a
>formula damnit. I'm tired of experimenting.
>
>Second, what about the inner driving lights- how do i aim
them too.
>These would be a flood-light type of light i suppose that
are mounted at
>the same vertical height as the headlights.
>
>thanks
>matthew, with the "friday" email address.
>86 syncro westy i4
>
>
>
>
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