R129 Headlight Unit Change.....Help!

[Vintage Racer]

Disclaimer: I am not technical.

Changing the headlights on my R129 to LHD and have managed to almost remove the first unit.......

I have undone all of the connections apart the the 'vacuum' connector, which appears to twist and release, but does not pull out (do I just need to pull harder?)

The original lights were Bosch and the replacements are Magnetti Marelli.

As you can see, the vacuum plug on the new light is much smaller and I assumed that it was just a cover to remove and swap over the original unit from the Bosch unit.

However, when I undo the plug on either light, they do not want to come out!

Obviously, the original light has the purple vacuum pipe attached to it, but the new light does not have a connection for this.

H E L P !!

images of the new (on box) and original lights below:

[/url]IMG_1376 by Glynn Hobbs, on Flickr[/IMG]

IMG_1375 by Glynn Hobbs, on Flickr

 

[Vintage Racer]

OK, so have simply removed the lenses from the original's and replaced them with the lenses from the new headlight units.........not quite what I planned, but at least I now have LHD headlights!

 

[Ali_H]

Are you sure that the bulbs are in the same orientation? It's a long time ago, but when I swapped RHD lenses on to a LHD VW, I also had to cut a slot to invert the bulb.