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10-08-2020
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 Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Brooklyn ny
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Headlight door won't close all the way
It won't open all the way and will not close all the way...Headlight works...91....Anyway to close manually ?
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Folsom CA
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Re: Headlight door won't close all the way
The plastic bushings in the actuator mechanism have turned to dust.
Time to remove the headlight unit and replace the bushing. It's not particularly difficult, but expect to spend a couple of hours. The bushings are over the counter at your local parts store, cost you a couple of bucks. Here's a YouTube video on the repair: https://video.search.yahoo.com/searc...d72587047347b1 If you were local, I'd offer to help for the price of six pack and good company. 'Crabs
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Re: Headlight door won't close all the way
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Re: Headlight door won't close all the way
Yep yep found the knob ......Thanks for all the replies ....👍
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10-09-2020
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Re: Headlight door won't close all the way
Easy fix took me about an hour to do both sides let me know if you need help John
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10-14-2020
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Location: Squires (near Ava MO in the Mark Twain N'tl Forest) - Missouri
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Re: Headlight door won't close all the way
While we're on the subject, one of the actuator gears in Ami's lights got brittle and some teeth sheered off, causing the motor to free spin. Some say I should have stuck with new nylon gears and bushings, but I opted for the bronze gears and grease.
That car gets fewer than 1000 miles per year, and most of that in daylight. So, I doubt that is a fair comparison. But, just sayin...it is an option to nylon!
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Re: Headlight door won't close all the way
Waking this thread up.. Do you put grease where the delrin bushings ride? I see some videos that do and maybe one that doesn?t. I see that you grease the outside of the nylon gear, not sure of the inside of the nylon gear. It?s difficult to press the gear on the shaft without grease inside..
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Re: Headlight door won't close all the way
no grease.
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