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Date:         Sat, 5 Oct 2002 12:24:41 -0400
Reply-To:     Brent Christensen <sbsyncro@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Brent Christensen <sbsyncro@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Installing SA Headlights & Grill
Comments: To: Bruce Nadig <motorbruce@HOTMAIL.COM>

Hey Bruce:

I am going through the same thing right now. To me it appears that:

1. If you have a square-light Vanagon, you must remove the small "tabs" on the bottom edge of the mounting by drilling our the pop rivets. Otherwise they interfere with the brackets for the inner lights.

2. Only the outside two mounting pins of the grill will "lock" into place, since there is nothing for the inner two pins to mate with. (the old headlight buckets have two mounts each, but the round lights only have a single mount.

3. There does not appear to be a good way to attach the top center mount for the grill. The old grill uses a "push lock" mount, but the new grill has a screw hole.

Bottom line, it appears that the grill will need to be glued or duct-taped into place in order to make it secure. Only two of the five mounts appear to be functional without some significant modification.

There are enough of these mounted that I am sure someone has figured this out by now.... Any better ideas?

Brent Christensehn

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 17:40:47 -0500, Bruce Nadig <motorbruce@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:

>Howdy All, > >I am in the middle of installing my new South African grill and dual round >lights onto my '87 Vanagon. It isn't going quite as planned. I have already >consulted the archive, but I haven't found what I was looking for. > >It was easy to install the round H4 lights. The inner lights supplied with >the kit I purchased from Bus Depot do not bolt on as I had anticipated. The >inner lights that came with the kit are pre-mounted on brackets. The >question is how this bracket mounts onto the front of the Vanagon. > >It appears as if I must remove the tab (which is held on by 2 pop rivets) >that the previous headlight frame (for rectangular lights) was mounted to. >It then appears that I must do my best to line up the light bracket where I >think it should go (using the grill as a guide). From there I should mark >where I need to drill holes to mount this light bracket. > >Do I have it right? Do I need to first remove that riveted tab? Do I just >have to line up where I think the light/bracket assembly needs to go and >then drill my holes? Am I missing something? Is there any other advice? > >I have all the wiring in place and I am just ready to bolt in these last >lights. By the way, the new grill looks great. I have it temporarily mounted >along with the H4s. Nice. >


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