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MG TD TF 1500 - TD headlamp fitting

It has now been four years since I began pulling my TD apart and the old memory just isn't working well enough anymore! I purchased a new set of headlight buckets and now that the car is almost ready I am ready to install the headlamps into the buckets. I remember that there were little clips but so far have only found one. Last night I tried to see how the lamp fits into the rim with these clips (even though I can't find the others yet) and I am having a devil of a time seeing how these things work to keep the lamp in.

It appears that it should be simple but can anyone please shed some light as to how they fit. I believe that I require four clips per side if I am correct.

Thanks
Brian
1950 MG TD
Brian Smith

Brian, I have sent a separate email to you that contains an image that I had of the wiring inside of the headlight bucket. At least one of the clips is shown. I think that there are three per headlight.
Bud Krueger

Brian I've sent you three pictures of the clips off my 50 There are six clips per lamp and you can see they were placed in pairs at 120 degrees
Jon L

Thanks Bud and Jon. I really appreciate the pictures as they made identification of the clips and location in the headlamp easy.

Brian
Brian Smith

This thread was discussed between 24/04/2004 and 26/04/2004

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