On Feb 4, 2008 7:00 PM, Gregory Smith <gfs@scattercreek.com> wrote: > Hi Gang, > > Has anyone replaced their late Vanagon headlights with regular > rectangular E-Code headlights and lived to tell about it? > <snip> > The main area of difficulty that I can see are mounting the darn things > as the Vanagon uses unique hardware etc., Gregory, Randy Bergum has adapted the Hella H4s to the Vanagon mounting system. You can see them at: http://home.earthlink.net/~organslave/id18.html I have Cibie H4 mounted on my 91 and all I can say is night to day! I planned to fab a bracket to mount the Cibies to the Vanagon adjusters, but couldn't get a solid mount point on the Cibies. I ultimately hacked my old Vanagon lamps so all I had left was the bracket. to which I wired and glued the Cibies. The mount is solid but my van looks kind o bug-eyed. I had to file the grille a bit to fit. I was going to write it up for the archives but it is sort of a kludge. If you want pix let me know. . -- John Meeks '91 Multivan, '85 GL bits Northern Michigan KC8ZFN Vanagon Rescue Squad http://www.vanagonauts.com/Vanagon_Rescue_Squad74.htm |
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