You'll love it.

Jim

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Jean-Woo Kim <jkim.phd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Jim for confirming my intention/expectation for a brighter
> nighttime driving. I have tried all kinds of half-measures over the years.
> I washed the inside of the housings, upgraded the wiring with relays, tried
> higher wattage bulbs, replaced countless plastic adjusters, etc. The only
> thing that marginally helped was installing extra driving lights on the
> chrome bumper. They are not pretty. Now the plastic adjusters are getting
> brittle and some are broken again.
>
> As of this morning, I have a line on a '85 or older grill and a separate
> line on a set of brackets. (Thanks guys! You know who you are.) I intend to
> install the 7 INCH H4 Hella round headlights in them. I'll report back
> after my retro-conversion project. Oldies but goodies I say.
>
> James
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 28, 2014, at 6:36 AM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > I've owned old and new vanagons with round and square lights. The round
> > lights with the bus depot or other similar upgrade is a world apart from
> > any other vanagon lighting. The way that the light is bright like a
> > "modern" car with an evenly filled field of light below a sharp cutoff,
> > with that "up-angle" on the right to see roadside stuff better just can't
> > be beat.
> >
> > You can make square headlights better by cleaning them thoroughly, not a
> > simple thing to do sometimes. You can make any of them better, including
> > the round ones, by giving them better wiring and grounds.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> >> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:05 AM, JRodgers <jrodgers113@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> What I do have mounted on the front bumper is two fog lights and two
> >> aircraft landing lights. They are angled slightly out to really light up
> >> the side of the road. Really helps to avoid the dark hole problem - but
> >> can't be used all the time - specially with oncoming traffic.
> >>
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>> On 1/28/2014 12:45 AM, OlRivrRat wrote:
> >>>
> >>> its S'A'Grill HeadLights TrulySuck compared to
> >>> mine ~
> >>
>