Headlight mounting

Trevans

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I have two 8Ns, a '49 and a '50. The '50 has the normal mounting, that is directly to the side of the hood. The '49's are mounted on brackets or "perches". The '50 came from Canada, and I think the '49 may have as well. It makes me wonder why Ford would have spent additional money for the extra brackets and why the difference in design. Any Comments?
 
Ford didn't put lights on them.
They were all dealer or owner installed options.
That would be my guess as to why they're different.
Someone used what they had available.
 
Trevans........"frog-eye" mounts were used to clear FEL's. Sidemounts were normal. ALL N's had dealer installed headlites. While some headlite switches were dashboard mounted on left side next to the ammeter, they soon found out that wasn't good 'cuz the switches were NOT WATERPROOF and shorted out. Most headlite switches were mounted under the lefthand corner of hood along with ignition switch 'cuz proofmeter on righthand corner was in the way. Me? I like to use HD 18ga "twinlead" zipcord I gitt at the local hardware store. 1/2 of the twinlead is used as a GROUND. Don't trust RUSTY sheetmetal joints fer grounding. The other 1/2 goes back to the 2-position pull-switch. 1-position fer headlites and taillites; 2nd position fer back-up/field monitior flood lite. .........HTH, Dell the electrician
 
Yep-those are what I call the "pie-wedge" shaped headlight brackets and the headlights themselves were different than the Ford Tract-O-Lite headlights. They were supplied by a Canadian company of which no data can be found, at least in my quests. The original Ford Tractor headlight lighting kit contained the familiar headlight wings and back mounting brackets using the T-O-L 'teardrop' buckets. By late 1951 the wings were changed to plain round mounts with a smaller back mounting plate and the buckets got rounder. I am the second owner of my early 8N and I got it from the original owner in Canada. It came with the pie-wedge brackets and Canadian headlights which were a P-I-T-A as they used special clips to hold the sealed beams in place in the bezels. The clips were similar to the ones used on the worklight only larger so they did not interchange. Hope this helps clear it up...

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