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Lisle 14540 Headlight Adjusting Ratchet for Ford
Availability:
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Price:
$20.25
$11.92*
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| Part No: | B0002SR8AK |
| Manufacturer: | Lisle |
| MFG Part: | 14540 |
| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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- Use on Ford aerodynamic headlights with rear mounted adjusters
- Extra long handle for easy access to hard-to-reach spaces
- 4mm hex with roller clutch for infinite settings
Headlight Adjusting Ratchet For FordFeatures: Works on Ford aerodynamic headlights w/ rear mounted adjusters. Tool is used to adjust aerodynamic headlights w/ rear mounted adjusters on newer Ford vehicles. These adjusters are not easily accessible & require this tool for adjusting. The extra long handle allows easy access to hard-to-reach spaces. Tool has a 4mm hex w/ a roller clutch for infinite settings.
| Right tool for the job! | 2010-04-16 | 5 / 5 |
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| Needed to adjust the new HID lights I just installed on my F-150 and this was the tool for the job. Easy to use, compact, worked perfectly and now I can see the road and not blind everyone. Fast shipping and easy transaction all around. |
| Good little tool | 2009-12-31 | 3 / 5 |
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| Turns out I didn't even need the darn thing. On my '94 Bronco the adjustment screws extend up above the facia enough so that if I'd known better, I could have adjusted the lights with a pair of pliers. I can't imagine having to use this tool in a tight place or having to reach down and in to try and find the adjustment screw. The fit is very tight and I had trouble fitting the end of the tool into the end of the screw to turn the screw. So know exactly where the adjustment screw is before you buy this product. If you have no other way, then I definitely recommend it. |
| Half-way good | 2009-09-16 | 3 / 5 |
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This would be a nice little tool if the head stayed on the shaft. As soon as I opened the blister pack the ratcheting head fell off. Maybe a spot of JB Weld will fix it. It should have a set screw or screw-on wooden dowel for a shaft. All I really need is the 4mm head anyway and stick my own dowel in.
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| Ford Headlamp Adhuster Works Perfectly On Mazda Tribute | 2009-02-05 | 5 / 5 |
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From I bought the Lisle No. 14540 Ford headlamp adjuster because my '08 Mazda Tribute (Mazda Corp. is almost half-owned by Ford) has the same 4mm hex headlamp adjusters as many Ford models have. The Lisle No. 14540 works perfectly on my Tribute's headlamp adjusters - and this tool is actually a MUST for the Tribute's adjusters, because the adjusters are sited so closely to the Tribute's upper frame crossmember that an ordinary 4mm socket, attached necessarily to a ratchet, will simply not fit into that cramped space - you simply cannot get the ratchet-&-socket into the small space in order to slip the socket onto the adjuster's hexagonal shaft.
The Lisle 14540 Ford (and Mazda Tribute!) headlamp adjuster tool is crudely made of simple components. Its steel billet/bar stock handle, which is knurled (and I found the knurling to be superfluous to the tool's operation) at its hand-gripping end for a length of 1-1/2 inches, is the essence of simplicity. The 14540's business end is a coarsely ground but adequately chrome plated casting or forging which houses the tool's butter-smooth working roller-clutch mechanism that operates like a silent ratchet. The roller clutch mechanism's internal 4mm socket is captured and held into the chromed tool head by an opposed pair of cheap friction-fit washer-like fasteners which may need, as my example's needed, to be pressed together with thumb and forefinger to ensure that they're seated all the way for proper roller-clutch mechanism retention, and so that the washer-like fasteners won't come off and perhaps become lost - perhaps along with the internal working bits of the roller clutch mechanism (to prevent loss of these fasteners during toolbox, trunk, or glove box stowage, owners of the Lisle 14540 may wish to wrap some electrician's tape, or stretch a stout rubber band, round its head).
All that said, considering the infrequent use to which Ford and Mazda Tribute owners will likely put this headlamp adjuster, the Lisle 14540 works perfectly, and its fair price makes it well worth buying: so I enthusiastically recommend the Lisle 14540 Headlight Adjusting Ratchet For Ford (and Mazda Tribute) if you own a Ford or a Mazda Tribute and you want or need to adjust their headlamp beams. I also make this note to the Lisle Corporation: to increase sales of this perfectly effective tool, have your marketing geniuses add to the No. 14540's printed sales rack hanger card, and to your firm's tool catalogue, a printed blurb that tells that this tool also works on Mazda Tribute 4mm headlamp adjusters.
Congratulations, then, to the people who work at Lisle for a splendid job! |
| The head was too large to work properly | 2009-02-04 | 3 / 5 |
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| After I replaced the old faded headlights on my 2000 Ford CVPI, I noticed that they needed to be adjusted. I called a "local and official" state lamp adjusment shop and they quoted me $80 to adjust the two new headlamp assemblies I bought on E-Bay for $50. Right. So I tried to adjust them myself but it was very difficult and time consuming. I bought this tool from a local Napa Auto Parts store. The tool worked OK but unfortunately because the head is so big, it would only turn to a certain extent before being stopped by the other metal piece to the rear of the headlamp assembly unit. Another reviewer below mentioned the same problem. So in the end, the tool was really useless because I could not use it to completely turn the small screws all the way back towards the rear. Ford made such a poor design of their frame that I cannot believe how hard it was to change out my bulbs and headlamp assembly much less adjust them properly. |
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