Firebird Headlights--ALL COMMENTS/QUESTIONS REGARDING HEADLIGHTS GO IN HERE
09-20-2010, 05:35 PM
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09-24-2010, 11:44 PM
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Aight. This my second time dealing with the whole, "gears stripping", and the whole "grinding noise whenever you turn your headlight off" situation. The first this happened to me I bought the brass gear and put it right in. Worked perfectly for about 6 months. Then 1 day my headlight didn't come up, so I went and turned the manual **** for the headlight to come up. When I went to go turn off my headlights. The grinding noise was back. It's all screwed up. The headlight will come up normal, then stay up and not go down when I turn it off. When this happens I loosen the manual turn **** just a little, hit the light switch off again and it'll go down... grinding. I don't know what's goin on. Theres a brass gear in the motor I don't understand why it would grind. These headlights are frustrating. I love my car... but Damn. Any ideas?
09-27-2010, 10:44 AM
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Aight. This my second time dealing with the whole, "gears stripping", and the whole "grinding noise whenever you turn your headlight off" situation. The first this happened to me I bought the brass gear and put it right in. Worked perfectly for about 6 months. Then 1 day my headlight didn't come up, so I went and turned the manual **** for the headlight to come up. When I went to go turn off my headlights. The grinding noise was back. It's all screwed up. The headlight will come up normal, then stay up and not go down when I turn it off. When this happens I loosen the manual turn **** just a little, hit the light switch off again and it'll go down... grinding. I don't know what's goin on. Theres a brass gear in the motor I don't understand why it would grind. These headlights are frustrating. I love my car... but Damn. Any ideas?
10-06-2010, 12:32 PM
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After replacing the stripped gear with a brass one I'm having a different problem. The arm will not stay into the headlight so it falls out after about 3 times of use. Any suggestions on how to get it to stay in place?
10-06-2010, 05:22 PM
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I can't at this moment but maybe in a few hours. I'm guessing there's a fitting inside the hole or something that I don't have. Its connected to the motor fine, but where its actually connected to the headlight the arm will not stay connected.
10-06-2010, 06:19 PM
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ah, sounds like ur "piece" has come out. I forget what its called but they are Pressed in/machined. what I did was at the end of the arm, I drilled a VERY small hole all the way through the small cylindar shaft at the end. Then I stuck it in the headlight module and then took a piece of wire and made myself a carter key...Wa-Lah, my arm hasn't come out since.
10-06-2010, 06:53 PM
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ah, sounds like ur "piece" has come out. I forget what its called but they are Pressed in/machined. what I did was at the end of the arm, I drilled a VERY small hole all the way through the small cylindar shaft at the end. Then I stuck it in the headlight module and then took a piece of wire and made myself a carter key...Wa-Lah, my arm hasn't come out since.
10-10-2010, 10:46 PM
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So many headlight problems! Hey guys, was trying to fix my headlight with the "free" fix and it's not looking very good. I have two problems:
One is that even when I do the free fix, the headlight still makes noise. It'll either make noise after it goes down or after it goes up. I found the sweet spot where it was silent for a minute, but had to adjust the headlight and that went away pretty quick. Is my gear just stripped completely if I can't find a way to get it to quiet down using the free method?
My second problem is that trying to remove the actuator arm, I accidentally pulled it out of the headlight. I can't figure out what keeps this thing connected to the headlight itself. There's no nut or anything, and it keeps wiggling out when I raise and lower light. How do I keep this thing attached? Thanks everybody.
One is that even when I do the free fix, the headlight still makes noise. It'll either make noise after it goes down or after it goes up. I found the sweet spot where it was silent for a minute, but had to adjust the headlight and that went away pretty quick. Is my gear just stripped completely if I can't find a way to get it to quiet down using the free method?
My second problem is that trying to remove the actuator arm, I accidentally pulled it out of the headlight. I can't figure out what keeps this thing connected to the headlight itself. There's no nut or anything, and it keeps wiggling out when I raise and lower light. How do I keep this thing attached? Thanks everybody.
10-13-2010, 03:55 AM
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Ok, just to confirm. Passenger side headlamp wont raise up. Lights do come on. No grinding noises at all. I have power both going into the motor harness connector and coming out of the harness connector going to the motor.
This is a bad motor, correct???
This is a bad motor, correct???
10-18-2010, 09:50 PM
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LMC truck housing ? Just curious Is everyones truck housings directional? The 2 that I have say L in the little square at the base of the clear glass. Was wondering if one is supposed to be L and one R??????
10-24-2010, 10:17 PM
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Strange headlight issue, (motor is new) So in getting my headlight motor replaced, it now operates just fine but wont close all the way down on the drivers side.
I can open the hood and roll the gear by hand and it will go down all the way and stay down, until i pop the lights back up again, then the drivers side will only go about 90% down. any ideas?
I can open the hood and roll the gear by hand and it will go down all the way and stay down, until i pop the lights back up again, then the drivers side will only go about 90% down. any ideas?