2013 headlamp adjustment

Help please, have read different versions, Is the upper screw for raise / lower, or left /right , Also, which direction moves it which way, Please help, thank you

 

Your Owner's Manual has instructions, but just in case you don't have one ... If your 2013 is like my 2014, the upper adjuster is for left-right and the lower adjuster is for up-down. That said, there's generally no reason to mess with the top one.

 

Thank you, much appreciated, do you know if you turn clockwise or anti clockwisewhich way they move?

 

Not sure. But if you pull the truck up to a wall or garage door, then turn the lights on, you'll see the beam pattern move as you turn. Trust me, you'll know right away which rotational direction gives you what movement.

Speaking of which, maybe I can offer some advice on the easiest way to turn the adjusters. Since the up-down adjusters are on the lower portion of the headlight housing and towards the outside of the truck, they're somewhat of a pain to get to. I used a 1/4 drive ratchet with a locking 12" extension. I then put a universal joint on the end of the extension with an 8mm short socket on that. The driver's side is a piece of cake to adjust this way. On the passenger side, I removed the two 10mm bolts holding the windshield washer reservoir in place, then tilted it inward. The socket then fit nicely behind it.

Don't forget to mark your starting beam positions and where the truck is parked with blue masking tape on the wall & driveway before you start. That way if you mess up, you can get back to where you started.

 

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Use a long phillps head to adjust, there is a groove it sits in along edge of the back of the light.

 

Just use a long Philips screwdriver. It meshes with the teeth like a gear. Can’t remember which way to move them up or down, but the manual says to make the final adjustment in the upward direction.

Edit: Like that^^^

 

Geeze. That's a lot of tools to replace a plain old long handled phillips!

 

My bad. I completely forgot about the screwdriver thing. Memory is the second thing to go ...

 

I could kiss you.

 

Ha!

 

I forgot I could do it this way. Put some new TRD Pro headlights in last weekend and need to aim one of them a little higher. The other night I walked over to the driver's side headlight, looked down past the battery while holding a ratchet, said "Nope" and went inside and drank beer.

 

Always a better choice

 

Very cool! I always just grabbed the whole thing with only my hand and turned it... maybe when mine gets hard to turn this will be the fix.

 

I'm getting ready to switch mine to the Pro headlights as well. How difficult were they to change out?

 

They're easy. You need to pull out the grill, and the only part that is annoying is the bottom retaining bolt for each headlight. I accessed it through the fender by peeling the wheel well liner back. Some people don't bother putting the bottom bolts back in. Headlight won't wobble while the hood is closed. Some play if it's open.