Hi Austin
I've saved your post for future use but it arrived too late to be of help as I was already off to town in the RR ..... :-(
But not to worry cos it passed the retest :-))
I adjusted the lights by finding dark multi story car park, stopped about 8 feet from end wall and then adjusted both lights until they were at a similar level.
MoT guy liked what he saw so we passed.
Had an interesting chat with him about swivel pins in Defender/RR/Disco as the upper swivel bearing had gone in mine which was one of the original fail points - he reckons that he sees a lot of LR products in with failed swivel bearings and thinks it is due to water getting into the swivels - possibly even just a build up of condensation. Surprise, surprise he doesn't get it with Series Landies as (1) no upper bearing (2) the pin is a lot more substantial (3) EP90 rather than swivel grease - that's his theory in any case
Graeme
On or around Fri, 25 Jul 2003 09:05:19 +0100, "Graeme"
> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >Pants! Haynes BoL and RR Manual no help here....
> >
> >The headlight adjustment on my 1989 Classic RR is out sufficiently to
> >be another fail point in the MoT. I'd like to adjust them and
thought
>there was a diagram in Haynes BoL (I'm sure there used to be - was
> >that an older edition?)
> >
> >Has anybody got the measurements needed to adjust the lights (as far
> >as I recall you park at right angles to a wall perpendicular to the
> >ground and then measure out various distances to get the beams
aligned
>correctly)
>
> park it on level ground, about 10 feet away from a wall. Mark a line on the
> wall at the height of the centre of the lights, mark the lateral position of
> the lights, (fun and games lining the vehicle up with this :-)) and then the
> main beams should point at the marked positions. You can mark the width of
> the vehicle, and sight along the sides, to line it up. sort of like this:
>
> ______edges of vehicle____
> / \
> v v
> -----------|-----|----------------|-----|---------------
> ^ ^
> \headlamp centres\
>
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________ >
> if you want to get technical, there should be somewhere on the
vehicle
(under front of the bonnet) a little square white label with a
number like
1.2, or 1.5, or such. This is the dipped beam setting, which IIRC is the
> gradient in % of the dipped beam - to calculate this, park the
vehicle so
the front is a known distance from the wall. The distance of the horizontal
> part of the dipped beam below the centre line marked on wall is the
> percentage of the distance from the wall. If you do
distance-from-wall in
meters, then multiply that by the relevant number and it's in cm. >
> e.g. for 1.5, at 10m, it'd be 1.5*10=15cm.
>
>
> --
> Austin Shackles.
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> too much traffic. Avoid the jams by never using your mind on a
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