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How to install Stone Guards on driving lights?

Chet Zerlin

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Hi All,

I should probably have entitled this one "silly question #293".......:D

I bought a set of 7" stone guards to put on my 7" driving lights. I must be missing something but I don't see how they would mount on the lights using the included hardware (see picture below). Do I disassemble the lights and somehow put those mounts in between the lens and the light or the lens and the light bracket...or?

Before I break anything (which I have been known to inadvertently do...) does anyone know the "right way" to do this?

Thanks!
Chet
 

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The headlight ones come with a kit that has some stainless steel tabs in . Remove the chrome ring (carefully) then install the stainless tabs under three screw at 2/6/10 oclock . Refit the chrome ring and the tabs are pointed forward out the gap between the ring and glass the stone gaurd then clips onto the protruding tab point .
 

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Do you have the 7" Lucas Flamethrowers?

If so, you can bend those clips to go between the ring that holds the light and the light itself. The bucket has 4 cutouts that you don't see when the light is assembled: one for aligning the light and 3 for some other purpose, but those 3 are at 120 degree angles, starting at 60 degrees from the top. The clips go in those 3 cutouts. I would take a clip out to show you the bend, but it takes a couple more hands than I've got to easily put it back together.

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Thanks John, that's exactly what I needed to know. I have the 7" Lucas driving lights sold by XKsUnlimited. (picture below) so I'll give it a try! Thanks everyone!

Chet
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Some more photos to help install.

First photo: The outer shell has four cutouts in the rim, the one on the upper left in the photo matches a bracket on the light so the lens is upright. The other three are spaced at 120 deg and are where the clips go.

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The second and third photos show how the clips are bent to match the rim of the light. The tab that normally has a screw that holds the clip in place when putting the guard on a headlight can be bent flat or left as is.
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Clip Profile 2.jpg

The fourth photo shows how you put the clamp ring on the light, slip the clips in the gap and rotate the clamp ring around until all the clips are held next to the lamp in their approximate positions.
Clip in Clamp Ring.jpg

Now, you put the bulb in the lamp (don't touch the bulb glass), connect the bulb holder and slip the bulb in the housing with the clamp ring on the outside, align the bulb with its cutout and the clips with their cutouts and tighten. Before tightening completely, put the wire guard in the clips and finish tightening.
 
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I have the Lucas driving lights that have the logo on the top. I do not believe those notches are present on them but I have not had to get into them in many years so this is only from memory.
I had the stone guards on the head lamps for a while but took them off because it was a PIA to get the bugs out. They did not remove easily.
 

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These stone guards are for the 7” driving lights. Getting bugs out is easier, and cheaper, than replacing a broken lens.
 
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