Headlight Bushing install Help
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Headlight Bushing install Help
Guys I have bought new bushings for my vette's headlights. However the instructions I got seemed easy enough, I can't seem to get past a certain road block. I got the light out and the motor cover off but I can't seem to get the gear itself out. I loosened the worm gear like it told me to do. Still no luck. I have even gotten a second set of instructions from corvette fever and they really dont help me much either. In the pics on the instructions they have the gear comming right out but dont inculde a metal piece on the outside of the gear preventing it from comming out. I wanted to see if anyone that has done this knows what I'm talking about. I also have lost one of the cotter pins does anyone know where I can get on of those too.
Racer
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Can you see the plastic gear? I put a small screwdriver into the roll pin hole (on the shaft)for leverage, and worked it back and forth with some upward pressure until the gear popped out. Those roll pins can be found in most any auto parts store.
Drifting
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Here's a link to the instructions I just used to replace mine. As the instructions state, and I do recall it being a pain to pull the gear.
http://www.corvettemagazine.com/2002...hts/light1.asp
http://www.corvettemagazine.com/2002...hts/light1.asp
Racer
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Your year looks a little different than mine. Check this out, I bet it is exactly what you are looking for.
http://www.corvettemagazine.com/2001...ghts/head1.asp
http://www.corvettemagazine.com/2001...ghts/head1.asp
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Guys I have bought new bushings for my vette's headlights. However the instructions I got seemed easy enough, I can't seem to get past a certain road block. I got the light out and the motor cover off but I can't seem to get the gear itself out. I loosened the worm gear like it told me to do. Still no luck. I have even gotten a second set of instructions from corvette fever and they really dont help me much either. In the pics on the instructions they have the gear comming right out but dont inculde a metal piece on the outside of the gear preventing it from comming out. I wanted to see if anyone that has done this knows what I'm talking about. I also have lost one of the cotter pins does anyone know where I can get on of those too.
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GM also chose to use one in the hood release lever. I found THAT out the hard way after mine backed out this weekend during Cruise-In, causing my cables to slip out of their mounts and leaving ME temporarily unable to open my hood.
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I have another problem now...I have the motor apart...I installed the bushings...but in my rush to get it apart i was careless and didnt really organize the parts like i should have... Anyone have a VERY specific link on how to put the entire headlight piece back together...I could just look at the other one...but that would require me taking it apart also which i dont want to do.
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I have another problem now...I have the motor apart...I installed the bushings...but in my rush to get it apart i was careless and didnt really organize the parts like i should have... Anyone have a VERY specific link on how to put the entire headlight piece back together...I could just look at the other one...but that would require me taking it apart also which i dont want to do.
Check the C4TechTips section on this Forum. There's several how-to articles there that'll walk you right through it.