Headlamps HELP
 

Sorry Posted In Wrong Forum Headlamps OPen only Half Way MOtors Run Full Cycle

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Gears or pellets...

http://www.mamotorworks.com/corvette?frame=3.853

http://content.mamotorworks.com/pdf/601701.pdf

http://www.corvetteforum.com/techtip...D=16&TopicID=2

Re: Headlamps HELP
 

Replace the Delran bushings

http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/foru...7&d=1323488603

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The Delrin bushing replacement info is on The ZR1NetRegistry webpage at:

http://www.zr1netregistry.com/Inform...arbox-fix.aspx

and

http://www.zr1netregistry.com/Inform...-bushings.aspx

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Thanks Again Will Order Gears And Bushing ASAP Thanks Again Carmine#357 Black Gray

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Can Gear & Bushings Be Replaced Without removing unit From Car Carmine #357 Black Gray

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i took them off the car and did it on a work bench. even then it was a pain in the ***, wouldn't want to try and do it on the car. too much risk of scratching something

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No

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That's NOT the answer that he wanted to hear there Darryl... And it's CORRECT.

No 'fast' fixes here Carmine. Take your time, do it right. Yeah - it's hard when you don't want to put down the 'smart' device for very long, but what's more important? The Z? Or the inane frenzy of MEANINGLESS data on the smart device screen?

Maybe slow down a little bit, grab a wrench and screwdriver, and put down the digital [smart] device. Forget about the interior / radio issues for now. Oftentimes, problems have a way of compounding, and when they don't get addressed, they get out of hand.

Take the H/L apart, see what's wrong, THEN order parts, IF you need them. Clean and re-oil parts in the meantime (even if not repaired yet). I did my own headlight 4 or 5 times, figuring out exactly how it worked, and what was broken, before compiling material the THE headlight sticky in CF. See where OTHER stuff is, how stuff works, take snappics, post up your progress on the boards, get feedback, etc. It helps us when [not IF, but WHEN] we have to do the repair, helps re-sale value, and most of all, it helps YOU - and NOT just by getting the problem fixed...

When you associate more 'sub'-tasks with a process, like a headlight repair, you develop critical and analytical thinking skills in your brain. Sub-tasks like I mentioned in the paragraph above. True, you don't exactly have to do the headlight every year, but you DO have problems all the time which require lots of thinking.

The more complex the sub-task - the better - especially stringing out 'syntactically' correct sentences, something hard to do on a 'smart' (haha) device's tiny keyboard. It's also hard for the brain to do it, when the brain is accustomed to instantaneous tasks, of no duration. Focus cannot be maintained (think ADD, ADHD, etc.; topics I've written about, amongst others, learning related, and had published, some of which is POST doctoral level, although my own DD candidacy seems to be in question).

Anyway here, I have dozens of snappics and sequences of headlight dis-assembly, diagnostics, and electrical repair, with annotated FSM schematics, if you want them in the meantime. You CAN start headlight breakdown right now, to find out what's broken, IF anything actually is broken, before the parts arrive...

Get some snappics posted too!

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Back a few years ago Marc Haibeck suggested to me and
others out here in the NW (at a BBQ he attended) that someone
should try using rubber instead of Delrin in the head light assembly.
Well eventually I did and reported back to all that rubber in there
squeaks badly on the first run of the lights then was ok.
Well I can now report that even on the first use it no longer squeaks.
Soooooo, I conclude after a break in period it works.
You can punch out a piece of rubber with the right dimensions.
I have to check my records but believe this has now been
working for 5yrs.
The passenger side has rubber.
The drivers side is Delrin.