it's a work in progress, but I've pretty much finished the low beams. here's what they looked like when I got them and what they look like now:
Yes I know I have the wrong lense on there, I don't have a new set of low beam lenses yet.
after removing the lenses, I found out that the silver coating on the reflectors would boil off in water, so I boiled them to make painting easy. I used SEM trim paint (cause it's about the right shade, and I had it lying around). I also took apart the ellipsoid assembly, taking out the lense and painting the holder, and then I painted the front half of the bucket black. They are completely dark if you look straight into them, because the front of the cutoff is black so nothing reflects back out of the ellipsoid lense.
now I just need to find some plastic to finish the high beams, and get lenses for the low beams..
Yes I know I have the wrong lense on there, I don't have a new set of low beam lenses yet.
after removing the lenses, I found out that the silver coating on the reflectors would boil off in water, so I boiled them to make painting easy. I used SEM trim paint (cause it's about the right shade, and I had it lying around). I also took apart the ellipsoid assembly, taking out the lense and painting the holder, and then I painted the front half of the bucket black. They are completely dark if you look straight into them, because the front of the cutoff is black so nothing reflects back out of the ellipsoid lense.
now I just need to find some plastic to finish the high beams, and get lenses for the low beams..
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