If it works OK on high beam, then I'm not sure, but otherwise you should
look to see that the headlight bucket isn't distorted. Otherwise what
can happen is that tightening the mounting ring cracks the headlight
glass, which allows air inside the lamp, and then that causes the
filament to smoke and burn itself out.
Theo
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tigers@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-tigers@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Jim Boynton
Sent: July 9, 2003 12:48 PM
To: Tigers
Subject: headlights
Listers,
I've been running the Tiger for a year with the low beam right
headlight out. I really don't do much night driving with the Tiger so it
wasn't much of a problem. Yesterday I was over to Robert Jaarsma's
looking at a couple of junk Alpines he had picked up and getting a
couple of parts. He gave me a couple of the headlights off the Alpine
and we tested them and they worked fine. Well today I decided to replace
the headlight and after doing so turned the lights on. Immediately the
replaced headlight began to smoke inside the sealed beam so I quickly
shut the lights off. I decided it was simply bad light after all. So I
replaced it with the second one from Robert and the same thing happened.
I put the original one back on and it didn't smoke but it seem to be
"somewhat blacken" inside (is that a word??? And was it always like that
and I didn't notice). Meanwhile the left works fine (high and low). The
2 from Robert is the correct Sealed Beam 6012 12V same as the one being
replaced. So does any one have any idea what the problem is on the right
side?
Jim
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