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Okay here goes, my stuborness is gonna show on this one!
I bught a standard headlight from ebay o put my 80G back to stock and low beam burned out after a few weeks. I checked the threads about headlights and found one where it was suggested to take a regular car sealed beam and afix brackets to it. Those of us who have a standard know the brackets are integral to the light. Well I thought that was a good fix but if that one burns out then the same thing all oer again. So I experiemented a little. I removed the sealed beam and hacksawed the electrical connector off, shook the inner bulb around until the pieces were small enough to come out the hole. Now looking at this I thouht I have a couple of choices. Remember the sealed beam has the brackets on it. (1) Take a standard H4 bulb mount and epoxy it to the back of the assembly, then you can contunue o use it and replace only the H4 bulb. Choice # (2) (and this is wha I have actually tried). The brackets are part of the metal back shell so I broke out the glass front lens and hacked away at the whole back assy with metal cutting shears down to the edge where te brackets are. Then I speant time carefully grinding it all down until there was just the very edge with the brackets was left. It resembled the front chrome ring that goes around the sealed beam but with the brackets. Okay that chrome ring has 4 tabs that bend over to hold it to the front of the lens. I was going to use those tabs to hold the back ring I created with the brakets on it. It he same size as the sealed beam because it was the sealed beam.Thats the problem! Now I started to sandwiched the new car sealed beam between the front chrome and the ring (with brackets) I created. The one thing my stubborness did not think about was the ring is the same size as the sealed beam because it was the sealed beam. Too small to fit around he back of the beam. I am still gonna look for a fix for this cuase I'm stubborn. Oh the moral of the story is Don't try this cuase I already did and it don't work! Hope you all get a good laugh outta this one. I'm lookin for a H4 lens assembly, I know they are still out there. If you have the same problem and you look on ebay and find it please let me win?
I bught a standard headlight from ebay o put my 80G back to stock and low beam burned out after a few weeks. I checked the threads about headlights and found one where it was suggested to take a regular car sealed beam and afix brackets to it. Those of us who have a standard know the brackets are integral to the light. Well I thought that was a good fix but if that one burns out then the same thing all oer again. So I experiemented a little. I removed the sealed beam and hacksawed the electrical connector off, shook the inner bulb around until the pieces were small enough to come out the hole. Now looking at this I thouht I have a couple of choices. Remember the sealed beam has the brackets on it. (1) Take a standard H4 bulb mount and epoxy it to the back of the assembly, then you can contunue o use it and replace only the H4 bulb. Choice # (2) (and this is wha I have actually tried). The brackets are part of the metal back shell so I broke out the glass front lens and hacked away at the whole back assy with metal cutting shears down to the edge where te brackets are. Then I speant time carefully grinding it all down until there was just the very edge with the brackets was left. It resembled the front chrome ring that goes around the sealed beam but with the brackets. Okay that chrome ring has 4 tabs that bend over to hold it to the front of the lens. I was going to use those tabs to hold the back ring I created with the brakets on it. It he same size as the sealed beam because it was the sealed beam.Thats the problem! Now I started to sandwiched the new car sealed beam between the front chrome and the ring (with brackets) I created. The one thing my stubborness did not think about was the ring is the same size as the sealed beam because it was the sealed beam. Too small to fit around he back of the beam. I am still gonna look for a fix for this cuase I'm stubborn. Oh the moral of the story is Don't try this cuase I already did and it don't work! Hope you all get a good laugh outta this one. I'm lookin for a H4 lens assembly, I know they are still out there. If you have the same problem and you look on ebay and find it please let me win?
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