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Old 12-12-2018, 03:54 PM   #28
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Aiming the headlamps

Brand new headlamps are not aimed properly. One of mine was setup for squirrel hunting in the trees.

The adjustment method in the video works very well.
I would recommend doing this after dark.

You need;
  • I've forgotten the exact size... external Torx socket (I needed an unknown E-Torx size to pull the seats so I bought a set that included E4 through E22 with some gaps)
  • Two inch wide blue painters tape
  • Sharpie
  • Yardstick to mark centreline on the tape on the door
  • Thirty foot measuring tape.
  • 5 or 6 gal bucket filled with sand
  • Four or five foot landscaping stake

I put a landscaping stake in a bucket of sand at 25ft from the garage door I was using and backed the truck up til the corner of the front bumper was even with the stake.

I'll add a picture HERE of the centre mark on my GM headlamps.

Unfortunately the optical centre mark on my headlamp lens does not show up in pictures taken with my camera.
You're looking for a mark that looks like the Greek letter Theta θ near the horizontal centerline of the lens on the LO-Beam side toward the HI-Beam and LO-Beam reflector divider.
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