Daytona headlight adjustment

Raise the lights. Remove the front covers. Height adjustment is the screw at the very top of the bulb bowls...

Instructions are in the owners manuals, but if you are missing the supplement you won't have them...

 

picture?

 

picture of bucket in closed position? close up and further away.

 

Why ???
Such photos will not be necessary or even useful for the answers OP is requesting.

 

“pictures worth a thousand or million words”

 

… or “misleading as much”

 

wont know til ya know

 

I'd think anyone who understands/-stood OP's request, should "know" pictures of misaligned headlight buckets aren't necessary or useful for the answer.

 

did you provide a useful answer

 

Hopefully to anyone needing pictures.

 

since the op figured it out with NO help from you, i guess that ship has sailed.

 

Besides, for the OP, “that ship sailed” a while ago already, before this topic…

 

If the motor is drawing the door down far enough it is making contact there is still an adjustment issue. The rubber bumpers are designed to prevent the headlight doors from shaking while driving down the road. The linkage adjustment should be what prevents contact. Putting in a taller bumper is just a band aid.

 

I should also say from where it is contacting it may be the door positioning may be an issue too. They are adjustable so it has a pretty even gap around its circumference. It might be too far forward or too far to the right. Hand built cars pieces do not always fit perfectly but we can usually keep them from crashing into each other.

 

my thoughts exactly, hence the request for pix.

 

Body part fit has been challenging on Daytonas since they were new. They were built so crooked I don't know how they got the windshields to fit in some of them.

 

True but every one is a monument to the guys who built it.

 

While I never saw any when they were new, I’ve been saying this ^^ ever since I worked on my first one over 20 years, although initially I thought the low mileage, superbly original and unrestored example at the time must’ve been anomaly when originally constructed, but subsequent years/decades proved it probably being one of the better built ones I’ve encountered/seen or worked on since.
OTOH, it is/was a very late production car, so perhaps it also proves the build/construction quality actually improved some over the 4+ years Daytonas were made.