Product Description

Lisle headlight adjusting ratchet is used to adjust aerodynamic headlights with rear mounted adjusters on Ford vehicles. These adjusters are not easily accessible and require this tool for adjusting.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21517 in Automotive
• Brand: Lisle
• Model: 14540
• Dimensions: .30 pounds

Features

• Use on Ford aerodynamic headlights with rear mounted adjusters
• Extra long handle for easy access to hard-to-reach spaces
• 4mm hex with roller clutch for infinite settings

Customer Reviews

Simply an Awesom Product
This tool makes adjusting your Headlights a breese. There simply isn't a comparison to what a pain it would be with out this tool.

I find it difficult to believe that this isn't a Special Tool from Ford.

Another winner from Lisle Tools

This 7/8" Thick Wrench Is Too Thick For Some Cars
Get the KAS-5529A Ratcheting Wrench KAS-5529A WRENCH FORD HDLGHT instead. It is about half as thick as the Lisle Wrench. The KAS-5529A wrench looks more like a conventional box end ratchet wrench, and comes with both 4mm and 4.5mm ends to fit other vehicle headlight adjuster bolts.

This "Lisle 14540 Headlight Adjusting Ratchet for Ford" is made moderately well, but it is too thick to fit properly between the headlight and radiator firewall of my 1999 Ford Crown Victoria Interceptor. This wrench's 4mm sleeve is held in place by press fitted washers on either side. It can't be made much thinner.

This Lisle wrench may just fit onto the top adjusting bolt, but if the bolt moves backward to raise the headlight beam, the wrench may not be removed from the bolt. The headlight retaining plate(s) must then be popped loose to allow the headlight assembly to move forward enough to allow the wrench to be removed from the adjusting bolt.

Ford Headlamp Adhuster Works Perfectly On Mazda Tribute
From Amazon I bought the Lisle No. 14540 Ford headlamp adjuster because my '08 Mazda Tribute (Mazda Corp. is almost half-owned by Ford) has the same 4mm hex headlamp adjusters as many Ford models have. The Lisle No. 14540 works perfectly on my Tribute's headlamp adjusters - and this tool is actually a MUST for the Tribute's adjusters, because the adjusters are sited so closely to the Tribute's upper frame crossmember that an ordinary 4mm socket, attached necessarily to a ratchet, will simply not fit into that cramped space - you simply cannot get the ratchet-&-socket into the small space in order to slip the socket onto the adjuster's hexagonal shaft.


The Lisle 14540 Ford (and Mazda Tribute!) headlamp adjuster tool is crudely made of simple components. Its steel billet/bar stock handle, which is knurled (and I found the knurling to be superfluous to the tool's operation) at its hand-gripping end for a length of 1-1/2 inches, is the essence of simplicity. The 14540's business end is a coarsely ground but adequately chrome plated casting or forging which houses the tool's butter-smooth working roller-clutch mechanism that operates like a silent ratchet. The roller clutch mechanism's internal 4mm socket is captured and held into the chromed tool head by an opposed pair of cheap friction-fit washer-like fasteners which may need, as my example's needed, to be pressed together with thumb and forefinger to ensure that they're seated all the way for proper roller-clutch mechanism retention, and so that the washer-like fasteners won't come off and perhaps become lost - perhaps along with the internal working bits of the roller clutch mechanism (to prevent loss of these fasteners during toolbox, trunk, or glove box stowage, owners of the Lisle 14540 may wish to wrap some electrician's tape, or stretch a stout rubber band, round its head).

All that said, considering the infrequent use to which Ford and Mazda Tribute owners will likely put this headlamp adjuster, the Lisle 14540 works perfectly, and its fair price makes it well worth buying: so I enthusiastically recommend the Lisle 14540 Headlight Adjusting Ratchet For Ford (and Mazda Tribute) if you own a Ford or a Mazda Tribute and you want or need to adjust their headlamp beams. I also make this note to the Lisle Corporation: to increase sales of this perfectly effective tool, have your marketing geniuses add to the No. 14540's printed sales rack hanger card, and to your firm's tool catalogue, a printed blurb that tells that this tool also works on Mazda Tribute 4mm headlamp adjusters.

Congratulations, then, to the people who work at Lisle for a splendid job!