Let's Talk Headlight Buckets

Are there any options for a slimmer design? Is there a modern bulb that looks similar from the outside but isn't as deep? Maybe I could build a more-shallow bucket around it?

 

Iirc there is an h4 retrofit out there. Also check out browncoat’s 3b build he did something different with the headlights. You know you want to make new buckets anyhow....

 

Just add it to the list.

 

I'd really like to avoid LEDs if possible. I don't like how bright they are towards oncoming traffic. I've badmouthed them so much, I'd be the ultimate hypocrite if I used them.

The posts out the back of the 6024 bulb are looking to be my biggest issue. Is anyone familiar with a 7" halogen bulb with posts that come off to the side instead of straight out the back? I guess I could bend the posts and use spade connectors, but that just feels wrong.

Edit: There's also the heat issue with LEDs; they don't produce enough heat to melt snow off of the lenses in the winter. I know, I know...

 

The opening around the headlights Postal jeep is flush and would give you an inch if cut out and installed on a stock CJ 5 grille. Or use the entire grille...



Maybe you could use YJ Renegade headlights. I heard they are slimmer.....

 

You're lucky I like you...

 

Don't know if this is an option or not. The low/high beam headlamps used in the 4 headlight systems of 1960 era cars is both small in diameter (5 1/2" dia. vs 7" dia.) and I believe slimmer.

 

Thanks for your input guys. (Well, aside from ojgrsoi.) I may have found a way around my issue.

 

Hahha
Yikes!

 

I was thinking along those lines too.

 

Like everything else with this project, if I can't make 'A' fit, move 'B'.

 

Hmm I wonder if you’d have room to bolt some driving lights into the grill shell? I think something like this could look better than the bug eyes
MINT LUCAS SFT 576 DRIVING LIGHT (PAIR) WITH CLEAR GLASS & 48 WATT 12V BULBS | eBay

 

Lucas, the people who invented darkness?

 

Back 30 years ago whenI used to build baja bugs, there were aftermarket plastic headlight buckets that were very shallow, and had an open back to plug the wires on the back of the bulb. They pushed the bulb to almost a flush mount. Some of my "wide eye" front end with the headlights in the fenders needed very shallow buckets as the oversize front tires would almost rub the back of the bulb. They were sold in Empi packaging, though some other company made them. I haven't seen them for years, but I am out of that market, so don't know if they are still available.
-Donny

 

Those are not the ones I used to use. The 3019-7 is the stock replacement item. Empi used to have an open back style that was at least 1" shallower.
-Donny

 

Is the radiator already mounted? I leaned the one in my B back about 2" at the top. Made for more headlight bucket room but I still had to do a little hammering on the right side.