New Peepers

When I went to look at Fezzick, I thought the headlamps looked great.

Blacked out. LEDs.

Pretty snazzy for a truck almost old enough to drink.

Unfortunately, as headlamps, they were absolute garbage.

I was better off driving down the road with headlamps off. Those “cool looking” LEDs cast more light than the main lamps. But all they projected was a little “X” of glare. And most of that glare was aimed off onto oncoming traffic or the shoulder. The last 20 minutes of my drive home from work is a county road with no street lights, so headlamps are fairly critical. Were I a city dweller (I’d be unable to park), I could probably live with those lamps.

When Fezzick roiled out of the factory, he was equipped with a giant headlamp with and an “L” shaped amber marker / turn signal / reflector surrounding the lower and outboard sides of each lamp.

I had read online that the 2003 Excursions had a better lens and were a direct fit. They also ditched the amber lenses on the auxiliary light in favor of clear lenses over amber bulbs.

The fine folks at LMC truck had all the parts I needed.

Each headlamp is supposed to be held on with two C-clips. Mine were held on with one each, so I needed new clips as well.

When I took the old lamps out, I learned one reason why they were so bad, they weren’t amiable. Ford designed the headlamps to have two aiming screws, one for vertical and the other for horizontal alignment.

The aftermarket lamps were different. The driver side lamp was built with both adjusters, but the vertical one was not connected to the lamp. The passenger side lamp was manufactured with no horizontal adjuster.

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