Tips needed-headlight stands from headlight bar

Anyone got any tip or advice for building headlight stands from a model A headlight bar? Just heat and bend till they look right? Got mine mounted on the shock stand now and just don't like em. help a bruther...Fido

 

Use a 28-29 headlite bar. Cut it in the middle. Now you have a lever to use to bend it. Put it in your vice. Heat and bend until the round headlite mount part is in the rite position. Bolt it to your frame and check it by bolting a headlite on. If it isn't quite square, heat and fine tune. Cut the excess bar off at the ball socket. I think this is covered in the Bishop/Tardel book. Pat.

 

How do you tell a 28-29 bar from 30-31?

 

They are older I will try and snap pics of mine this weekend.

 

what? you can't tell the difference? that's kinda basic...even from 100 feet

 

I took a 1930 headlight bar and cut off the ends outboard of the light sockets. Then I welded 3/4 inch tubes to the bar. On the lower end I welded the pads from the original headlight bar. These were turned 90 degrees to line up with the frame rails. I drilled the pads to allow the light wire to enter the top of the hollow tube and exit thru the frame rail. This kept the wire hidden except where it came out of the headlight bucket and into the tube, a lenfth of about five inches.

This isn't the best picture. You can see you can adjust the height depending on your taste by varring the lenght of the tube. I think I should have made it a couple of inches shorter.

 

the 28-29 headlight bar is straight in the center, and the 30-31 is curved very similar to a 32 but steel where the 32 I belive is stainless.

 

I built mine out of a long set of old skinny six cylinder connecting rods bolted the cap end to the frame & heated & bent the pin end over 90 degrees,about 1 1/2 "s below the hole.Welded the cup of an old headlight bar on top of the pin hole.They look great & match my axel with the beam look.

 

I used a jeep cherokee sway bar cut in two with torch cleaned up ends with grinder. The ends of the sway bar worked great because they are cupped and my chrys headlights fit perfect.My truck is built from whatever is laying on the floor
Later Shoe

 

Ha ! mine's a 30-31. I feel smarter already knowing the difference. Now just gotta find someone with some torches....

 

The coupe was done like pauls. Leave the cups on the bar and then mount the cutoffs to the frame and weld the cross bar to the stubs. I cut the stubs off a little on my P/U to get the lights lower.

The roadster bar was cut out between the cups. The fender mount bolted to the frame. Then heat and bend the **** out of it to reposition cup to hold the H/light level. Both were Deuce bars.

 

I just went out and took another picture of the back side with a little more detail.