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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 02:12 PM
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put the headlights in a lt1 trans am i got some silverstars from autozone and i need to put them in i was going to pay to get them installed but i want to learn how to do it myself.
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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 02:22 PM
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Did you get just the bulbs or the entire housing ?
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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 02:29 PM
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Relatively painless, just need a phillips screwdriver.
(Although I've seen a few cars that have torx for some odd reason)

Remove plastic housing (2 screws on each site)
Remove one screw from metal retainer
Pull old headlamp out, put new one in, try not to break the wires in the process.
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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 02:31 PM
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Did you get just the bulbs or the entire housing ?
the housing lol the big sealed headlamps.
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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 02:34 PM
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I am assuming you got the entire housing since our stock headlamps are sealed beams. I think the part number is H4666ST or something if I recall. Anyway, this is very easy to do.

Turn on your headlights so the housings pop up, then turn it one click to the parking lights so the housings stay up but the lights themselves turn off.

You can either unhook the battery or leave it but I suggest unhooking the battery in case this takes you a while.

- Remove the 4 philips head screws from the black plastic shroud over each headlamp.
- Remove the shrouds with care even though they are pretty durable. They can be flexed a bit to get them out.
- Reach in and unplug the headlamp from its connector
- You will now see the black trim ring (metal) with 4 screws holding the headlamp housing into the bucket. I actually remove the top two and loosen the bottom two so I can more of less slide the headlamp housing out.
- From there, reverse the process to put the new silverstar housing in and your all done.

-Brian
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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 03:25 PM
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o u guys are freaking great i already have one of them installed im just having a hard time gettin the screws out from the bottom of the passengen lamp so i did a stupid thing and bent the metal part sourounding the lamp. So i took out the light though and im bout to put the new one in thanks a mill
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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 03:26 PM
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4got to mention i lost the bottom left screw its in the nose somewhere lol is that a bad thing
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Old Mar 28, 2007 | 03:33 PM
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You can just take the plastic pieces attached to the bottom of the bumper off its like x10 10 mm bolts or what ever it takes to get your hand in if you feel like it.
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just put them in the look like stock lights but we will see tonight thumbs up for the help guys
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