ebinmaine 67,703 #1 Posted December 30, 2020 I'm in the process of repairing the headlamps on Trina's 867. We will also be adding some auxiliary lights for improved night vision, front and rear. @WHX24 Jim mentioned in another thread that he had a tractor with questionable ground and I'm a big believer in having a lot of extra ground wires basically for the sake of insurance. I went online to the flea BAY and ordered up some 1156 sockets that have two wires. We were able to clean up the existing sockets in the tractors original headlight bucket but I was curious to see how the ground was going to be attached. Soldered? Riveted? Turns out it's incredibly simple and the ground wire is literally just wrapped around the spring in there. That gives solid positive contact via either the spring or the wire itself touching the casing of the socket. Incredibly easy improvement to do so I thought I'd share it with you folks.... 1 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Achto 27,623 #2 Posted December 30, 2020 That is an incredibly easy fix. On my tractors that are running the stock headlights I drilled a hole in the head light bucket & ran a ground wire to it. This way I was not relying on the hood hinge to create a ground. 9 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cschannuth 3,816 #3 Posted December 30, 2020 On my black hood they used a ground wire since there was not grounding available through fiberglass hood. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
midpack 866 #4 Posted December 30, 2020 6 hours ago, Achto said: That is an incredibly easy fix. On my tractors that are running the stock headlights I drilled a hole in the head light bucket & ran a ground wire to it. This way I was not relying on the hood hinge to create a ground. I had to run a ground wire from the hood to the frame on Mongo because grounding through the hinge wasn't working very well. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
squonk 41,165 #5 Posted December 30, 2020 I take out a rivet on the stock headlight bucket and install a machine screw and nut with a ring terminal to hook a ground cable to. Nothing like your headlites in strobe mode when you're plowing at night. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rjg854 11,389 #6 Posted December 30, 2020 These are all good solutions to ground problems of a headlight bucket relying on the hood hinge. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pfrederi 17,741 #7 Posted December 31, 2020 You can trust your mother ... but not your ground 3 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
