Thread: Adjusting Headlights on RRC

Originally Posted by Baggy

Hi All,

I removed the front headlight surrounds and grill on my 1981 RRC 2 Door.
This included removing sealed beams giving them a good clean up and giving the surrounds and grill a respray in black ....they looks sweet

Inadvertantly, I've stuffed up the headlight adjustment on low and high beam making driving on low beam on a badly lit road impossible with high beam not being much better

I vaguely remember as a young lad my dad adjusting headlights by shinging car lights on a brick wall and adjusting them, but what measurement or formula he used to correct them I would'nt know.

Does anyone know (measurement) or how I can re-adjust them back correctly.

Cheers

Baggy

I use the brick wall thing too, I then hit a dark road.
I park close to the wall and put some masking tape on the wall at the centre of the headlamp.
I do a + sign so I get a left/right and up/down idea.
On high I focus the lamp central on each of their marks.
This is done at about 6mtr(20ft) from memory.
On low beam the top of the beam should be 50mm(2in) below the centre line.

I'm sure someone will confirm/deny the distance

Originally Posted by alien

I use the brick wall thing too, I then hit a dark road.
I park close to the wall and put some masking tape on the wall at the centre of the headlamp.
I do a + sign so I get a left/right and up/down idea.
On high I focus the lamp central on each of their marks.
This is done at about 6mtr(20ft) from memory.
On low beam the top of the beam should be 50mm(2in) below the centre line.

I'm sure someone will confirm/deny the distance

And here. But I've never actually measured the drop, just made sure they are slightly below level.