Removing the left front head light.

[Flyingpony]

The headlights are located on the grill in front of the radiator. The left has stopped working on all beams so I need to check it. Right works fine.

Can't really see how I'm supposed to get the bulb out or gain access to the wiring behind it, with exception of removing the radiator which I'm not particularly wanting to do.

Standing in front of the grill, each light has three screws going through the grill main panel. The one at 12 o'clock looks to do alignment but what about the other two at 3 & 9 o'clock? If I remove those will the light unit glass fall out into my hands or is there more trickery required?

Thanks.

[Sadam_Husain]

I'm probably not much help to you but my recollection from 20 years ago when I had an old Landie was if its something at the front you start by dissassembling the tail-lights and slowly make your way forward or if its something at the back you start with the radiator and headlights and slowly work your way back.... oh yeah and you usually need 2 people coz theres no captive nuts anywhere and you cant reach both the nuts and the bolts at the same time

Good luck with it

[Steve_t647]

I think they do come out the front, you pull the surround and then there are 3 nut's on the mounting bracket remove those and the light and bracket come out, then you can remove the plug at the back and the whole glass and mount will come through the hole.

I can't remember but they could have been sealed beams and Landy's with old wiring look at earthing problems to.

[Flyingpony]

Thank you all.

That sounds about right Sadam_Husain,

Looks like they're the sealed type.

I'm also suspecting a bad earth because the elements don't look fired.

Couldn't spot any light surrounds, so to speak, because the screws go through the painted metal of the grill. There's just the bulb glass with a bit of silver metal coming up from behind the grill. I'll play with the right hand side first and see how it comes out.

[Flyingpony]

Getting the light out, what a job. If they were installed on the wings like Late 2a and 3, piece of cake, but they're on the grill.

Drop electric fan - bolts were rusted.

Remove all three light adjustment screws - forgot to mark light alignment ... hindsight

Undo 3-4 more screws which hold light into light holder frame.

Carefully extract light.

Reverse procedure to install new light.

Still doesn't go. Never mind. I'm going to gut the front portion of the wiring and install a two relay system. That way I fix for sure any faulty wiring and even better future proof myself for halogen upgrades. By doing the relay conversion, the existing lights will glow brighter since they won't suffer much/any voltage drop