thanks. by newer, do you mean 04? this sounds do-able now but
I want to be sure before starting anything as I am the nervous and
delicate type. and as usual here, good advice from DS. as to the
others and their non-advice - stop that silliness right now!
thanks
Tom
Seattle


On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:21:27 -0500, "Daniel J. Stern"
> wrote:

>On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, I love Edsels wrote:
>
>> I have a 97 Ford Ranger and don't like the headlights. I've been told
>> that replacing them w/ lights 01 or newer will make a big difference.
>> Do they just bolt right into place like the existing ones? Or do I
>> need to make some alterations?
>> TIA
>> Tom
>> Seattle
>
>They will bolt in. You must use the newer headlamps *and* the newer corner
>lights. The park/turn function is located within the main headlamp body on
>the newer lamps, not in the corner lamp as with the old lamps. Therefore,
>there is a separate sidemarker bulb in the new-style corner lamp. This
>must be wired in, which is not difficult to do. You can either wire it to
>burn steadily whenever the parking or headlamps are on (one wire to
>parking lamp feed, one wire to ground) or you can do the smart thing and
>wire it to burn steadily when the parking or headlamps are on *and* flash
>with the turn signals (one wire to parking lamp feed, one wire to turn
>signal feed, diagram at
>http://www.danielsternlighting.com/t...rkerflash.html )
>
>Ford's marginal headlamp wiring has been starving bulbs and producing dim,
>brownish light from the headlamps for several decades now. They've finally
>(in the last three years or so) started equipping their cars with decent
>optics, and that's a big improvement over the badly-focused beams produced
>by virtually all pre-'01 Fords, but the too-thin wires still starve the
>bulbs. Put relays in, see
>http://www.danielsternlighting.com/t...ys/relays.html
>
>DS