I haven't done much...but i finally got some pics. Not the best, but whatever.

I painted the inside of the headlights with some black (more like charcoal) metallic RustOleum. lol...I need to take them back apart tho to grind off the squirreley finders. I completely forgot when I painted them. Oh well..another reason to irritate the wife!

anyways...here they are, this is my first time posting pics, so i hope it works.

 

looking good!

 

lol. thanks.

*Update*
Last night I pulled the headlights again and I removed the squirrel finders. I didn't grind them off, i just pulled them off with pliers. The 'rivets' that hold them on aren't really rivets, so pulling them off doesn't leave any holes. It's just metal pressed together. All in all, it was a lot easier than I thought it would be.

Hah..I should have taken pics, but I left my camera at the office.

I HIGHLY recommend that anyone who hasn't removed them should. It makes a huge difference in the cutoff. Nobody flashing me anymore, and it looks waaay better from a driver's perspective.

Anyways, whatever my next project turns out to be, I'll be sure to take some pics and post up a DIY!

Also, if anybody is interested, I'm selling my stock steelys and tires. They have like 500 miles on them. I'm asking $250, pickup only....

Peace.....

 

What are "squirrel finders"?

 

The part of the halogen headlight projector that throws some of the light up high, above the cutoff.

They're called squirrel finders because you can see squirrels up in the trees on the side of the road at night (although I don't look for them myself).

 

Any pics of removing the squirel finders? There was an exact thread about this in the tc for the 08-09 model but they stated that you don't need to take the headlights apart. You just take out the bulb and pull down on the squirel finder with pliers...

 

Unfortunately, I didn't take any pics at all. The only post i could find that shows a pic is this one: https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...=asc&&start=60

If you look at the pic of the inside of the projector, with the squirrel finder, you can see a couple of little raised circles. This is just where the metal was stamped together. it pulls right apart.

Hope that's helpful.

 

i see six flags

 

Lol....

I was waiting for somebody to notice that. Hah!!

Yea, I took that pic at the office, which, as you can see, is across the freeway from Magic Mountain. This time last year was awesome, with all of the fires out here. We all stopped working cause the power was supposed to be shut off, and we just kicked it in the office drinking and watching the flames. From our view, it looked like Six Flags was gonna burn.

Good times...