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Old May 27, 2012 | 10:19 PM
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Car: 1986 trans am
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How to adjust headlights

I have been trying to line my headlights up with my fenders and front bumper. I have been playing around with them for the last few days. i am just at a loss, i have loosen all the bolts to try and manipulate into place. it just is not enough. Any ideas?
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Old Sep 3, 2013 | 11:50 PM
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Re: How to adjust headlights

I too am having this problem. I had the h/l assembly out and now they won't line up. I marked the bolts and put them back to their last position but now there is about a 3/8 step gap. I will pots some pics soon.
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Old Sep 4, 2013 | 12:00 AM
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Re: How to adjust headlights

Here is the first pic
Attached Thumbnails How to adjust headlights-hood-1.jpg  
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Old Sep 4, 2013 | 12:01 AM
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Re: How to adjust headlights

And another
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Old Sep 4, 2013 | 07:04 AM
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Re: How to adjust headlights

Did you remove the front bumper or fenders? Maybe the bumper support needs to come down a little.
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Old Sep 4, 2013 | 09:22 AM
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Re: How to adjust headlights

No, all I did was pulled the h/l assembly's out and rebuilt the motors and put them back in. I did change the hood struts too, but I doubt that has anything to do with this. All gaps are fine just the step is out. Hood to fender and hood to nose gaps are good. The drivers side h/l could use a little step adjustment also, it's just not as bad as the passenger side. Also I'm not sure how bad it was before I removed them since the car has had the hood up for the past three weeks and was in storage for 8 years before that.

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