I've been asked a few times how I did my round headlights so I made this thread. Some people hate it, me I love it.

First thing to do is to find a vehicle to get the parts from in a jy. People say cj's or wranglers but at my local jy good luck finding very many at all and the ones you find are normally completely torn down. I got mine from a 2nd generation Chevy Silverado Cheyenne.




But there's many others than this, I originally was looking for the 70's F250 that was in the jy but found this first.

Note: I did not take pictures in the junkyard so the instructions below will have pictures from the cherokee how to take out the stock light but it was exactly the same for me at the jy

Normally theres just some trim piece for the grill covering the headlight bucket screws. As far as the jeep, theres just two top screws holding the trim. Not sure if this is the case for the earlier models but im sure its not too different.




Take off what ever trim piece and find the 2 bucket screws. Normally just 2 but there could be more depending on the vehicle. You shouldn't have to take of the actually round trim ring that cirles the light so dont if you dont have to. The 2 screws that hold on the bucket are the ones that adjust the direction of the headlight.




As far as the cherokee, when you unscrew the bolts dont take them all the way out, just enough to get the light out. You may need to unscrew the turn signal to get it out of the way for the circle light as well. Also there should be a spring that keeps tension on the light.




Disconnect it and pull the light out and disconnect the wiring. Id keep the screws and the spring just in case, I used my jeep ones but you never know what shape those might be in on somes. If for some reason the light doesnt have the 3 prong design like shown below, you might want to snag the wiring to the light also.




Now to attach the round light to the jeep is the exact thing in reverse. First plug it in then attach the spring to the bucket and attached it to the hole on the clip.




Line up the screws and screw them in alternating to try and keep it straight. Most likely if you push the bucket to the frame it wont look like it will work with the screw holes at all but the screws have a little degree of freedom and will be at angles once you screw them in. Also you will of course have to adjust the angle of the lights to shine right. There's a right up about headlights that has a link.
Note: I have had to gorilla glue a washer to the side of the bucket for the side screw to go in so that the screw would stay on the light bucket.









But that's pretty much it. Put your turn signals and trim back in if you want, but as I said, make it your own.






And like I said, make it your own. Go crazy!





Another note, thanks go to Barrelmaker for helping me the whole time from junkyard to installation.

 

Great thread! Thanks!

 

Thanks

 

Did mine yesterday. Thanks for the idea/writeup.

 

Awesome work guys. Can one of you show pics of how you mount the turn signal and where to get them?

 

Yea drew post up some close up pics. I may be revising mine based on yours. Looks great!

 

I just made mine out of some round headlight covers off ebay and some pvc. I cut the original turnsignal light bulb holders off and just used them cause theyre circles

 

The turn signal came from advanced auto. I just cut the hole for it and used some rtv to hold it in. I dident know how else to mount it.

 

I made sheet metal mounts for mine and screwed them in but screws in fiberglass dont work too well

 

I would do this if I hadn't upgraded my square ones... Haha good install

 

Nice work guys. When I get back, my IH Scout grille will be grafted to my 85.

 

This one. It's a 1980.

 

That will look cool!

 

Yea that will be awesome. Cant wait to see it

 

I want to see that Scout grill mounted, good write up. Not sure I want anyone thinkin im trying to imitate a wrongler, but I does look good.