How Do I open My headlights!!
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How Do I open My headlights!!
I wanna open my headlights, but I was told that you cant just open them with the method of sticking them into the oven. What is the way to open them up? Also I want to change my foglight bulbs, but my oil coolers are in the way. What do I have to do?
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Here is how to change out the fog light bulb, ill try and find a headlight one late but in class sorry.
Here is how to change out the fog light bulb, ill try and find a headlight one late but in class sorry.
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Search for a screen name "shakeyourbrakes" he helped advise me on baking mine open I recently finished painting them black and later this winter I will bake them shut,,, heres mines so far.....
Bake open at 220dgrees for 8 min stints
Pry open and reapeat until open,,,,
I sprayed with High temp engine paint
High temp primer, higher temp semi gloss
Let paint set for recomended time (8-10) days
Reassemble and bake shut...
Bake open at 220dgrees for 8 min stints
Pry open and reapeat until open,,,,
I sprayed with High temp engine paint
High temp primer, higher temp semi gloss
Let paint set for recomended time (8-10) days
Reassemble and bake shut...
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I bought two sets of Ebay and cut them both open then frankenstien them together, baking doesnt work the lense is ultrasonically welded together with a chemical bond
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Rotr8 What exactly did you do? Do the lights look cut up? Any pics of the install and progress of the work done? Sorry to be a pain, I just dont wanna screw it up.
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dont have any pics, but on one set I used a knife edge to pry the clear shell off once I broke through teh lense, and on the other set I took a dremel and cut away the black plastic. In the end I had one good set of just the lense caps and one good set of the plastic housings, I still havent epoxied them together yet but will be painting them just like the headlights
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dont have any pics, but on one set I used a knife edge to pry the clear shell off once I broke through teh lense, and on the other set I took a dremel and cut away the black plastic. In the end I had one good set of just the lense caps and one good set of the plastic housings, I still havent epoxied them together yet but will be painting them just like the headlights
those headlights are looking pretty clean.
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Thanks Ngo.....
the taillights are gonna be low profile too,,,,, for some reason I never felt the same about the strakes in the tailights as I did in the headlights, so Im cutting them out and filling the holes. After that painting all silver components the same black that I used in the headlights....
the taillights are gonna be low profile too,,,,, for some reason I never felt the same about the strakes in the tailights as I did in the headlights, so Im cutting them out and filling the holes. After that painting all silver components the same black that I used in the headlights....
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Ok so I have some sort of crap build up on the inside of my headlights. I am not running therisk of baking them just to clean them.
I was wondering could I make some sort of tool to clean the inside through the holes where the bulbs were. If so could i just use some windex in there or some sort of non streak stuff??
I was wondering could I make some sort of tool to clean the inside through the holes where the bulbs were. If so could i just use some windex in there or some sort of non streak stuff??
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