If anyone knows how to fabricate a decent bracket, I know someone who is
equipped to produce them en- masse. I can ask, ( my former employer -
with whom I parted on good terms.) but would prefer to do it with
bracket in hand.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

John Meeks wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2008 7:00 PM, Gregory Smith <gfs@scattercreek.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Gang,
>>
>> Has anyone replaced their late Vanagon headlights with regular
>> rectangular E-Code headlights and lived to tell about it?
>>
>>
> <snip>
>
>> The main area of difficulty that I can see are mounting the darn things
>> as the Vanagon uses unique hardware etc.,
>>
>
> Gregory,
>
> Randy Bergum has adapted the Hella H4s to the Vanagon mounting system.
> You can see them at: http://home.earthlink.net/~organslave/id18.html
>
> I have Cibie H4 mounted on my 91 and all I can say is night to day!
>
> I planned to fab a bracket to mount the Cibies to the Vanagon
> adjusters, but couldn't get a solid mount point on the Cibies. I
> ultimately hacked my old Vanagon lamps so all I had left was the
> bracket. to which I wired and glued the Cibies.
>
> The mount is solid but my van looks kind o bug-eyed. I had to file the
> grille a bit to fit. I was going to write it up for the archives but
> it is sort of a kludge. If you want pix let me know.
> .
> --
> John Meeks
> '91 Multivan, '85 GL bits
> Northern Michigan
> KC8ZFN
> Vanagon Rescue Squad
> http://www.vanagonauts.com/Vanagon_Rescue_Squad74.htm
>
>
>