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I was feeling pretty down about how terrible the headlights are in my new (to me) m1078. In cleaning the shop last week, I stumbled on a new set of cheap projector lamps (the kind that take a h4 bulb).
I decided t swap them in real quick.... ugh... what a hassle. The Packard to h4 adapters I had broke immediately due to being made of economy grade Chinesium. So I decide to just cut the wires off the military sealed-beams and butt splice the connectors onto a H4 socket. half an hour later... done.
I struggled forever to get the new bulbs into place.... just. won't. fit....
I kept thinking the back of the bulb housing or wiring pigtail was contacting the inside of the bucket.... but after way too many minutes of trying to get it all back in the hole. I noticed that the alignment tube on the headlight did not line up with the notches in the bucket.
The headlight has lugs at the 10, 2 and 6 o'clock positions, but the bucket was rotated like 45 degrees. So that with the bulb installed into the location slots, the "top" was about the 2 o'clock position.
I had to swap the old bulbs back in ( the locating lugs line up fine).
I'm really confused by this. I've had a lot of weird junk, and a 7 inch round headlight has always been a 7 inch round headlight. I never knew they made them with different locating lugs.
Anyone else ever noticed this? Would a 24v bulb have a different lug location?
Weird.
I decided t swap them in real quick.... ugh... what a hassle. The Packard to h4 adapters I had broke immediately due to being made of economy grade Chinesium. So I decide to just cut the wires off the military sealed-beams and butt splice the connectors onto a H4 socket. half an hour later... done.
I struggled forever to get the new bulbs into place.... just. won't. fit....
I kept thinking the back of the bulb housing or wiring pigtail was contacting the inside of the bucket.... but after way too many minutes of trying to get it all back in the hole. I noticed that the alignment tube on the headlight did not line up with the notches in the bucket.
The headlight has lugs at the 10, 2 and 6 o'clock positions, but the bucket was rotated like 45 degrees. So that with the bulb installed into the location slots, the "top" was about the 2 o'clock position.
I had to swap the old bulbs back in ( the locating lugs line up fine).
I'm really confused by this. I've had a lot of weird junk, and a 7 inch round headlight has always been a 7 inch round headlight. I never knew they made them with different locating lugs.
Anyone else ever noticed this? Would a 24v bulb have a different lug location?
Weird.
