Wired up and street legal

Headlights in

My project, as usual, came with four headlight buckets, all cut in some way to work around the radiator.  I was determined to combine them to make sealed up buckets that are notched, rather than hacked, to fit in the grill.

 These are the two (blown apart) that I'm going to make better.

 Here's the gaping hole provided to me.

This is where the others were hacked.  I'm going to remove the side of this one to patch the previous one.

Starting to booger weld the patch piece in.

You can see the notch that I need to leave in.

Trying to clean up the boogers.

Bucket #2.

For the parking lights, I needed to make the hole a little bigger because I wasn't going with stock CJ2A/3A parking lights.  I want turn signals, so I'm using CJ5 dual filament lights.

Bigger hole cut with a jigsaw.

 Mounted.

For the actually headlights, I needed new harness plugs.  These are nifty little Dorman numbers, but the lead wires needed to be longer.

I painted the buckets black and then mounted it up.  Getting the adjuster springs right was a pain.  Not recommended.

Original chrome rings, slightly faded.  I have a second pair that have a bit more rust pitting.