Thread: How to Aim Headlights

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I just bought a '33 Ford street rod. I've tried to aim headlights, but just can't get them right. It seems to me these could be aimed by shining onto a flat surface at a predefined distance, and measuring up from the ground. Does anyone know the proper procedure to accomplish this?

I did a search on the internet and came up with a pretty good procedure that helped me aim my headlights on my '34. It was more scientific then Denny's but probably not anymore accurate.

If ya wanna spend some $$$ to get them perfect, go to a bodyshop with a headlight aiming machine, they do exist, I didn't know they did until my auto class teacher got 1 for the shop over the summer. I'm the kind of person who just uses a white garage door, the machine is too confusing for me, it rolls on 2 tracks that you set up beside the car, then you use a viewer on the machine to put the pinpoints in and get it perfect.