Date:         Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:06:41 -0500
Reply-To:     John Meeks <vanagon@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         John Meeks <vanagon@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: headlight question
Comments: To: Gregory Smith <gfs@scattercreek.com>
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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