I've been working on this for well over 4 months now, and it is finally in good enough shape that I thought I'd share... I'll call that Phase I: Installation of custom mounting plate, with Up/Down, Left/Right and Rotational Adjustments.
Phase II will be making a custom shroud.
Phase III will be the final installation.
2007 Explorer with FX-R Bi-Xenon.
First off, I have to mention that I wanted to be able to get full adjustment over this projector and I really didn't like the idea of just mounting the projector to the original reflector. No offense to anyone who has gone that route, but that just was not the way I wanted to go... So I ended with this setup:
The Up/Down adjustment is done using the original screw. The Left/Right adjustment is done by turning a shaft that protrudes through the back of the assembly, shown below in middle left of the pic (without the eventually knob):
The assembly consists of:
The Projector Mounting Plate, with slots to provide rotational adjustment. 1/4" Aluminum.
The Main Mounting Plate. 1/8" Aluminum.
The 2 plates get assembled with Booted Rod Ends to provide pivot points.
I had to slice off the lip from the projector in order to make the rotational ability to work in limited space.
Assembled, using a mockup rod for the Left/Right adjustment. The final assembly gets the miniature U-Joint seen earlier.
Still a lot of work left to get all that on the Ex, but getting there... I'll do a write-up, with parts list, diagrams, cost and more pics, if anyone is interested.
Phase II will be making a custom shroud.
Phase III will be the final installation.
2007 Explorer with FX-R Bi-Xenon.
First off, I have to mention that I wanted to be able to get full adjustment over this projector and I really didn't like the idea of just mounting the projector to the original reflector. No offense to anyone who has gone that route, but that just was not the way I wanted to go... So I ended with this setup:
The Up/Down adjustment is done using the original screw. The Left/Right adjustment is done by turning a shaft that protrudes through the back of the assembly, shown below in middle left of the pic (without the eventually knob):
The assembly consists of:
The Projector Mounting Plate, with slots to provide rotational adjustment. 1/4" Aluminum.
The Main Mounting Plate. 1/8" Aluminum.
The 2 plates get assembled with Booted Rod Ends to provide pivot points.
I had to slice off the lip from the projector in order to make the rotational ability to work in limited space.
Assembled, using a mockup rod for the Left/Right adjustment. The final assembly gets the miniature U-Joint seen earlier.
Still a lot of work left to get all that on the Ex, but getting there... I'll do a write-up, with parts list, diagrams, cost and more pics, if anyone is interested.