Hi neighbor, well almost. I’ve got the same problem John. My ’50, 3600 was used as a fire truck and I think the volunteer firemen that mounted up the spot must have been having a beer party that night and snatched one off a car outside of the fire house.
http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/image/120809710/large No that bend isn’t a distorted picture, that’s the way the holes were drilled and they had to bend the shaft to get it thru the pillar. My fix, when I get around to the cab body work, is going to be to weld up the pillar with the tig and then re-drill it using a drill guide that I will make up in the machine shop. That’s the only solution that I can see. I’m pretty sure the unit was meant for a different application and they tried to make it work on the truck. After I straighten out the hole I think I’m going to have to machine a new bracket for the out side. The one on the truck now has all the wrong angles.
http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/image/120809705/large Millions of those spot lights were mounted successfully in the ‘A’ pillar of cars and trucks and it’s just a matter of using the proper fixture to drill the hole and fining proper brackets. Lots of brackets were offered depending on the application.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
