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Brought to you by 1AAuto.com; Your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the internet. Hi, I'm Mike Green, I'm one of the owners of 1AAuto. I want to help you save time and money repairing and maintaining your vehicle. I am going to use my 20 plus years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts installed correctly. That is going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
In this video, we are going to show you headlight replacement on this 1997 Expedition. It's the same as any 97 to 02 Expedition or 97 to 03 F150. The only tool you will need is probably a T20 Torx driver and actually you might even be able to do it without any tools at all.
Okay, so maybe you have been in an accident and you need to replace your headlights or maybe you are just looking to update the front end of your truck. If you watch the driver's side or as you look at the right hand headlight, you see it gets nice little brighter. That is what nice new headlights will do for you and then as you can see, now the front end of this truck we took about 100 thousand miles off the truck just with a new set of lights and it is easy to do. So to remove a headlight, you have two tabs here on the top. What you want to do is pull up some okay and push back and then go up further. Same thing on this one, up, push back, and up further. Okay and now you can generally get the light out. You may decide that you want to make it easier use a T20 Torques driver and remove your parking lights.
Okay, remove your parking lights and you do that by removing that bolt and pull your parking light out. This allows you to get a little more room here to work with the headlights. Sometimes they will get caught on the grill. Just pull your headlights forward and there is a connector here and you can just use your fingers and push that connector off. Okay and if you are just looking to change your light bulb, especially on this drivers side you cannot get to it from the back, so you just twist that ring and remove the bulb and change it. Put it back together, lock the ring on. Here is our new light from 1AAuto and here is the old light from the truck and you can see that the new light from 1AAuto is all the same. All the mounts are the same, the light is going to go in the same and everything. The new light is obviously just clearer and brighter. If you have a broken headlight obviously this is going to be the fix for you and also if you are looking to refresh the front end of your truck, the new headlight will help.
A couple tips before you install them, just kind of eyeball all three of these adjusters and kind of get them into the same distance. With the distance that you want to look at is between the middle of this bulb to this groove here and you just want to make sure that distance is basically all the same. That will be a good preliminary aiming for your headlights. Another tip is just make sure all your stars I guess are this way. Okay, the grooves that go in and they have to go between those stars, so you want to make sure they are all like that with the point of the stars pointing diagonally. Okay to install you can see this has a little groove in it. They all go into these slots here. So what you want to do first is obviously connect your headlights okay and then you really want to look at the inside one.
Okay, what you are looking to do here is to make sure that this clip gets into this groove here. Okay so you can kind of see inside there, hopefully you can still see that. Now that you have the inside one, okay so now you can focus on these outer ones and you can see how these adjusters kind of go in those grooves. This is where not having that parking light in there really helps because you can get your fingers right in there and move stuff around. Now you got them right in there. Okay and now looking down you can see that all of my studs are through, even the little one. That black plastic is right through. You can push your tabs down. Okay, your light is in nice and secure and you can re-install side marker light. Make sure your lower flood is in the light and the upper. Push it back in and your T20 nut and bolt. Then turn on the lights, do a test to make sure everything is working well.
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In this video, we're going to be working with our 1998 Ford F-150. We're going to show you how to remove and replace your vehicle's headlamp assembly.
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Here are the items you'll need for this repair: 7mm socket, ratchet, flat head screwdriver
To remove your headlight, lift up on the tabs behind it. Now, sometimes you've got to wiggle them a little to get them to stay in place. Work your headlight out. You may be able to reach in from the back and push on it. You've got to make sure these tabs are fully disengaged.
Over time they wear out and they tend to get a little stuck. Once that's out you can unclip your headlight harness and remove it. On the inside edge of the fender is a seven millimeter screw. You'll want to remove that with a seven millimeter socket, ratchet, and extension. Once that's out, you can slide the turn signal assembly out of the grille, undo the tabs, and remove it from the vehicle.
Here we have the old aftermarket headlights that we removed from our vehicle and our new parts from 1AAuto.com. As you can see, there are some clear aesthetic difference between the two headlights; these being a black housing with a smoked lens, this being a clear lens with a chrome housing in it. Otherwise, the actual function and bracketry of the headlights are exactly the same. Flip them over, you'll see we have the same bulb with the same collar and we have the same mounting tabs and adjusting screws here. These are actually both what secures the headlight as well as what moves the headlights so you can align and aim them as you like.
Some obvious differences here. We have a smoked lens, which is going to hurt our light output. We have a black chrome type housing on the inside, which is going to work against the reflective properties you want to have inside the housing of a headlight because it's actually supposed to pick up the light going back and send that out forward as well. This isn't going do that nearly as well as the clear lens with the chrome housing is going to output light. So, not only are these headlights brighter and safer, but they're also just like our original equipment.
If your old headlights are bad from a fogged, cracked, or moisture-filled lens, or you're replacing an aftermarket part, these new parts from 1A Auto are going in direct-fit, just like your original equipment. Get your headlights nice and bright, so you can see safe and fix you up right.
Plug in your headlight bulb and line up the pins with their slots so the tabs here will sit in between these two slots and go through that hole. You can see the lock plate and how that works, there. You will have to kind of hold this up if your spring's week and it doesn't keep itself up there. You want to line up the rear ones at the same time. Now you've got your new headlight in place. For your marker light, we'll just plug that in, line it up, slide it into place. When it's all the way set in, your hole will be lined up at the top and we'll reinstall that 7mm screw.
On the driver's side of our truck, we have the old smoked housing headlights that we are removing from our truck and replacing with our new parts from 1A Auto. I think the difference is pretty clear here. Much brighter, much easier to see on this side. This side is very dim. It's difficult to see; you're not getting a great light output either from the blinker or marker, or the headlight. Neither of those are really shining through as well as our new parts from 1A Auto are. These are facing straight ahead, right at level where they should be, and part of that is due to adjustment. Whereas this one is actually shining on the wall over to my left, which is not what you want on the road. Obviously you want to see in front of you. That's going to be shining off into the other lane, annoying other drivers, and not putting light on the road where you want it.
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