Headlamp Aiming Procedure
- Park the vehicle square with the screen (1).
Park the vehicle with the headlamps directly over the reference line (6).
- Ensure that all of the components are in place, if work has been completed on the vehicle.
- Ensure that the vehicle is on a level surface.
- Stop all of the other work on the vehicle.
- Ensure that the vehicle has 1/2 tank of fuel or less.
- Close the vehicle doors.
- Rock the vehicle sideways.
- Align the centerline of the vehicle with the centerline (4) of the aiming screen by completing the following steps:
- 8.1
Mark the vertical center of the rear and front windows with tape. - 8.2
Use these lines as sight lines in order to match the centerline of the vehicle with the screen.
- 8.1
- Adjust the vertical tapes (2) on the screen in order to match the vertical centerline of each low beam lamp.
- Measure the distance from the centerline of the vehicle to the centerline of a low beam lamp.
- Adjust the horizontal tapes (3) on the screen in order to match the horizontal centerline of each low beam lamp.
- Measure the height (5) from the floor to the center of a low beam.
- Illuminate the low beam lamps.
- Observe the left and top edges of the high intensity zone on the screen.
- Adjust the headlamps in order to accomplish the following results:
- The top edge of each high intensity zone must be within 50.8 mm (2 in) above to 63.5 mm (2.5 in) below the horizontal centerlines.
- The left edge of each high intensity zone must be within 101.6 mm (4 in) to the left or to the right of the vertical centerlines.