3rd gen firebird headlight motor
03-20-2012, 11:18 AM
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3rd gen firebird headlight motor my girlfriends cousin has an '86 firebird and the drivers side headlight wont pop up. now this is an area of these cars that i know very little about so this may sound dumb, but i was messing with it and there's a little **** next to the motor and if you turn it and mess with it a little, the motor will come on and it'll pop up perfectly. i have very little experiance with pop up headlights, having only owned camaro's, so i don't want to just assume the motor's bad and replace it for nothing. especially since when you play with that ****(don't know what it actually is) it comes on and works perfect. any ideas? thanks.
03-20-2012, 11:24 AM
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That **** is used to raise and/or lower the light manually when the motor really does take a ****.
You could just have a case of the plastic gear inside the motor getting stripped......when they start stripping they act all weird. Thats one of things they will do, not come up, then they will, then they won't. It will also start to affect the other motor and how it acts. It can't hurt the other side, but it can make both sides act all wacky.
Do the gear flip procedure, takes 15 minutes and its free.
http://www.bfranker.badz28.com/headl....htm#FreeGuide
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You could just have a case of the plastic gear inside the motor getting stripped......when they start stripping they act all weird. Thats one of things they will do, not come up, then they will, then they won't. It will also start to affect the other motor and how it acts. It can't hurt the other side, but it can make both sides act all wacky.
Do the gear flip procedure, takes 15 minutes and its free.
http://www.bfranker.badz28.com/headl....htm#FreeGuide
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