headlight mod?
09-08-2009, 11:08 PM
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09-09-2009, 09:43 AM
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One (or probably both) of your headlight actuator motors are bad. Is it grinding? Are they coming up when you turn on only the parking lights?
Mine was doing all of those things. I ended up having to replace both motors, but from what I have seen on here and heard elsewhere, there are cheaper alternatives like the brass gear, or turning the motor so the "good side" of the gear is turning the headlight, although that is very much a "band-aid" fix IMO.
Mine was doing all of those things. I ended up having to replace both motors, but from what I have seen on here and heard elsewhere, there are cheaper alternatives like the brass gear, or turning the motor so the "good side" of the gear is turning the headlight, although that is very much a "band-aid" fix IMO.
09-09-2009, 08:53 PM
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^ it's not the actuators...the plastic gear in the headlight motors wear out over time. You could always replace the pop-up headlights with non-pop up kind of headlights. Pro: weight savings, no longer an air brake. Cons: potential to be called RICE. I've got them on my car and they get more compliments than flame. But, to each their own.
09-09-2009, 09:09 PM
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^ it's not the actuators...the plastic gear in the headlight motors wear out over time. You could always replace the pop-up headlights with non-pop up kind of headlights. Pro: weight savings, no longer an air brake. Cons: potential to be called RICE. I've got them on my car and they get more compliments than flame. But, to each their own.
09-09-2009, 10:10 PM
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potential to be called RICE
That's what I meant about the gears. If mine ever go bad again, I will be taking that route myself!
09-10-2009, 11:08 AM
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I'll get some pics up this evening but to answer the RICE questions...before I got mine a few of my fellow local F-body friends flamed me saying that the pop up lights were what made the TA/Firebirds stand out. But you're right about the 98 Prototype Firehawks, they had the original design and they would've been awesome if they made it to production. The ones I've got are from Breatheless Performance. I thought I'd get them to just be different but I love them now that they're on the car!
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look around on ebay? there was a set of the prototype ones going for only 25,000$ 
EDIT: i do like the look of the stationary ones, but not for 1k$...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/98-UP...ht_1158wt_1095
EDIT: i do like the look of the stationary ones, but not for 1k$...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/98-UP...ht_1158wt_1095
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