LD85

My 1985 Headlight motor just spins and will not shut off when I turn off the headlights. Is it time for a motor rebuild? Is it hard to do or should I just swap out a new one at TLD?

TIA

Marcho Polo

you need those $24 gears that the catalogs sell.... usually the smaller gear is the first one to strip. You can take the motor apart and find out which one you need.

Alesnik-MD

In the 85 assembly you only need the one gear. It is made of cheap nylon with little rubber quarter circle grommets, available from MidAmerica. Sometimes the grommets get dislodged and cause the trouble to which you're reffering. The last gear I installed, I used silicone sealant to glue the grommets into the gear. This worked great. Email me if you have any specific questions about this repair. First-timer would take about 2 hr to do the job.

Aggravated4life

Hey LD!!
If you go to repair this yourself, inspect the magnets inside the motor itself..theres a cylindrical type of housing the motor slides inside of...2 round black magnets spin the motor forward & back...mine broke and turned to black dust and would spin open but never close...the gears were fine too.

The gears are usually what breaks first but inspect the magnets..if they came off inside loose, re glue them back in place,if they arent cracked and busted up.

TTYL!!!

LD85

Thaknks for the replys.

I took the motor apart this morning and on one side of the OD of the Large Gear had teeth that had worn down to nothing.

I ordered new gears this morning and will repalce both sides this week. Thanks again to all that replyed! I had hoped to get some insight before I took the stuff apart and the replys really helped me to look for all the potential problems when I got it apart.

BTW cool new format but with all the new non sense on the reply options I would have thought they could have added a spell checker. Did I miss it?

LD