• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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Headlight adjustment

M

martin

Husqvarna
C Class
Can anyone tell me how to adjust the hi-beam of the headlight for my 09 TE 250? The low beam appears adequate but the highbeam is in deep space, well above the horizon. The OM only shows how to change the lamp but does not say anything about adjustment.
 
The only adjustment I know of is the Allen screw in the bottom to adjust the lamp itself up or down in the housing. That would be on my stock 08/TE450
 
I have the '09 manual for my TE450 and it also covers the TE250 so I'd guess you'll have the same one. Headlight adjustment is covered on page 80 in my copy, which is the page after the one that covers changing the bulb in the number plate lamp, i.e. 2 pages after the headlight bulb change.

Looking straight at the headlight from in front of the bike there's an allen bolt in the middle just below the headlight, and turning that will move the beam up and down. Of course it will move both dip and main beam so you'll have to find a good compromise that works well for you on both. There's a diagram showing the recommended alignment on the page in the OM if you can find it.

BTW, IIRC the bolt works against a spring so when you screw it in one direction it relies on the spring to move the headlight. The pivot points on my light were a bit sticky and I could sometimes turn the bolt without the headlight moving, so watch out for that (give the headlamp a push at top and bottom if you adjust the screw and nothing seems to be happening.)

BTW2, make sure the bulb holder is ok before you adjust anything. Part of mine had snapped off once and the bulb was loose in the back of the headlight and fell out of position, giving a bright dip beam but almost no main beam at all.

BTW3, if you actually use the headlight much the '09 one isn't particularly good. If the 250 is the same as my 450, you can buy the '10 headlight and it fits fairly easily (you need a cable adapter and I had to do some soldering on the sidelight connection). It's a *much* better light and not just because it's a different bulb as I tried brighter bulbs in the original headlight. I can't remember if the new one's a higher wattage so you'd need to check your bike could produce enough power (it may be the same wattage but just a halogen bulb).
 
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