How to Change a Headlight

How to Change a Headlight

by Colton Lewis

---BEFORE YOU START ANYTHING, MAKE SURE YOUR CAR IS OFF AND THE KEY IS OUT OF THE IGNITION TO AVOID SERIOUS INJURY---

Tools Required – Socket Wrench, Screw Driver, Cloth/working gloves. New Light Bulbs

Average Time – 30 minutes – 1 ½ hours.

Step 1 – Open your drivers side door and pull the lever to pop the hood of your car.

Step 2 - Open your hood and prop it up using your stick under the hood of the car and then locate the light you wish to replace.

Step 3 – When you have found the light, locate the four bolts holding it in place, usually they would be on two on the top that are visible and two that might be underneath the grill* of the front. Usually all four are visible without taking the grill off.

Step 4 – Get your socket wrench and attach the correct size socket to it and begin to unscrew the bolts holding your headlights in, yes all four bolts are the same size. Unscrew them to the left and repeat for each bolt until the headlight is completely loose and all four bolts are out.

Step 5 – Once this is done put your socket wrench down next to your four bolts and begin to LIGHTLY jiggle your headlight out of place. Usually this involves pulling it up and jiggling it in order to make it come out of the mold its sitting in. When you do this you should be able to see the wiring in the back of the headlight. Be aware, still support your headlight and DO NOT LET IT HANG BY THE WIRES, THIS WILL CAUSE DAMAGE.

Step 6 - Now, in the back of the headlight is either one, two or three butt ends of the light bulbs in which the wiring is attached to. To release the wires, push down on the clips that are on each side and begin to jiggle and pull the plugs out in order to detach them from the headlight. Do this for every single light bulb in the back that a wire is attached to.

Step 7 - Now your headlight should be completely loose and you should be able to pick it up and carry it around, it is completely detached at this point. Now for the lights, in order to remove the lights, spin them counter clockwise (or clockwise for certain car models) by the butt of the light bulb and this should release the bulb. Dispose of them because they are useless, or keep them if you have another purpose.

Step 8 – Now, to add the new light bulb, DO NOT TOUCH THE LIGHTBULB WITH YOUR FINGERS, USE A CLOTH OR GLOVES TO PUT THE LIGHT BULB IN, TOUCHING IT WILL KILL THE LIFE OF THE LIGHT. Put the light bulb into the hole and spin it clockwise to tighten it and fasten it into the socket.

Step 9 – Now put the headlight back near the wiring and make sure it is on the right way, attach the wiring into the back of the light bulb by pushing on the clips on the side and then pushing the wiring into the light bulb fixture. Do this for one, two, or three of the bulbs.

Step 10 – Now place the headlight back into the casing and jiggle it around a little bit in order for it to slide into place.

Step 11 – RECOMMENDATION FOR THIS – SCREW EACH BOLT IN HALF WAY THEN EQUALLY SCREW THEM IN LITTLE BY LITTLE TO AVOID CRACKING HEADLIGHT.

Now get your socket wrench and bolts and begin to screw the bolts back into the headlight screw holes and so they are fastened to the front of the car. Do this for all four of the bolts and until they are completely tightened down.

Step 12 – Your headlight should be in place and should now work. Close the engine bay and check to see if it is sitting right. Turn your car on and check your lights, they should work perfectly.

Eddy - Poems

Someone somewhere will step forward
They will unfold our blinded eyes
And tell us
That science, the classrooms, the ruling assumption
Have made us shrink away from the central truths
Our questions about the developing universe
To live a subtle life is not so easy anymore
Nor will it ever be again
Until the churches, the mosques, and the temples
Have all fallen to ruin

Huddled for warmth with nature itself as a blanket
The human race began simply
It pondered mysteries of the universe
And celebrated its answers
Every year, every month, every day
For three hundred thousand years
They passed on these central truths through spoken stories
Have pity upon the primitive
For we will never again know their ignorance
Their bliss

Sedate our sadness for bygone days
Give us the drug of daily satisfaction
Tear from us our natural being
Break the primordial tradition
Extract the cosmos
And put it in a pill
To be taken twice in the morning and twice at night
So that the water, the sky, the rain
Will flow in our minds
Forever in our memories
And never again in our hearts
Alter our genetic makeup
And remove that which we once embodied
We have no further use for it

Eddy - How to Install SUSE Linux

Required Elements:
Acronis Partitioning Software
SUSE 10.2 disk
Internet Connection
Computer with at least a 20gb hard drive and an internet connection

SUSE 10.2 can be downloaded here
Once downloaded, burn it to a DVD using any burning software. Nero Burning Software is suggested.

1. Plug in and set up hardware for computer (keyboard, mouse, etc)
2. Turn on computer
   
3. During the first screen of the bios, press the delete (DEL) key
4. You will now be in the BIOS control. Cursor down to Advance Periferals and press enter/return. Set the boot priority floppy, CD-Rom, and hard disk, in that order. Press escape and save and exit.
5. As the system restarts, put the Acronis disk into the disk drive
6. The computer will boot to the disk and show you the Acronis partitioning controller. Find your hard drive in the window, right click it and format it to the ext3 format. Your hard drive will now be ready to have linux installed on it.
7. Save your changes and tell Acronis to restart the computor.
8. Replace the Acronis disk with the SUSE 10.2 disk
9. The system will boot the the SUSE Linux start screen. Press F3 and select the optimum resolution for your monitor (check the manual or box if you do not know it off-hand).
   
10. Cursor to the Install option and press enter/return
11. This is where the actual installation begins. From here, the installation is very self-explanitory. The installer will ask you for various information relating to your geographic location, hardware, and preferences. Pay close attention to each one. If you do not know the answer for one, leave it on the default. When you are prompted for a partitioning setup for the operating system, tell it to do the suggested partitioning setup. If you are an advanced user and would like to have a more specific or customized partitioning, you may modify it.
    
12. Once the installation setup is done, the installation of the operating system will begin. This can take up to 2 hours.
    
13. When the installation is complete, the installer will prompt you to restart the system. Allow it to do so.
14. When the system is booting back up, remove the disk. The system should boot to SUSE Linux.