Hello everyone, hoped you could help me with a question. What years (or serials) of Cubs had the teardrop headlights vs which Cubs had the sealed beam?
No matter what I do, I have always ended up owning Cubs that had the headlights stolen off them by the PO.
Right now, I'm trying to get my 61 correct.
Chris
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Re: Headlights
The lights were changed through the years, 47-early 54, had bulbs, late 54-early 58 flatbacks were a bulb inside of sealed lens, late 58 -early 64 are 6volt seald beam, later 64 up 12 volt sealded beam
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Re: Headlights
There were at lest 2 different style 6 volt sealed beam lights one that has a plug in the back and one that has the wires going into the light
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Re: Headlights
The change from tear drop to the flat back sealed units was approved 5/28/52, but they probably weren't actually used for quite a while. They may have started at serial 165153 when the ground wire was added to the harness.
It appears that the 12-volt round lights had the sockets and the 6-volt ones were directly wired. To add confusion, after the change to 12-volt, a socketed 6-volt light was available with a pig tail to fit the 6-volt version of the harness. There were 2 suppliers of both the 6 and 12-volt lamps. It appears that the 6s were predominantly from one supplier and the 12s from the other.
It appears that the 12-volt round lights had the sockets and the 6-volt ones were directly wired. To add confusion, after the change to 12-volt, a socketed 6-volt light was available with a pig tail to fit the 6-volt version of the harness. There were 2 suppliers of both the 6 and 12-volt lamps. It appears that the 6s were predominantly from one supplier and the 12s from the other.
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Re: Headlights
I had a 63 model with the pigtail
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Re: Headlights
So Jim-That serial# would be mid-'53,right? Most of the '53 Cubs I've looked at had the early sealed-beam lights.
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Yeah, that would be a couple months or so into 1953. Again, I don't have anything that says when they actually made the change, just the approval date which was evidently well before the actual change.
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Re: Headlights
Thanks,Jim. As usual,you have a wealth of knowledge.
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