Lisle14540 Headlight Adjusting Ratchet for Ford

Works great to adjust the headlights and fog lights on a 1997 Ford Expedition. It's unfortunate that Ford used proprietary adjusting screws requiring a device like this.

A simple tool to accomplish a particular task. It fits the headlight adjustment screw on my 2003 Grand Marquis and makes it very easy to adjust the headlight elevation. Reverse the wrench to reverse the adjustment, it only ratchets one direct but is reversible, ie both sides the wrench head are the same hex size. I've tried open end wrenches and 4mm seems about right, although this ratchet wrench fits more exactly than any of my 4mm open end wrenches. Good product, does the job, and the price is appropriate.

nice handy tool to have around

Works as intended but not as good as other brands designed to do the same thing .

Makes the job easy I sprayed pb blaster waited a few minutes and good to go

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!

I have two Ford SUVs. I didn't know what I was missing. This little tool is amazing. Very easy to adjust headlights with. It is built so well, I think it would last 50 years or more.

The media could not be loaded. EDIT: this is now a one-star review. I'm not overusing this tool, as I only have one vehicle that it works on. At first it was fine and did what it was supposed to but yesterday as you can see in the video it failed completely.Any job is easy if you have the right tools. This is the right tool for the job of aiming headlights on my Grand Marquis. Sure beats trying to find a 4mm wrench and turning it 15 degrees at a time!