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Old Oct 5, 2020 | 02:00 PM
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Anytime I turn my headlights on or off when they move they screech like a pig at slaughter. They also get stuck sometimes halfway up or down. Is it just the motor gear or is it something else. Thanks
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I'd disassemble it and clean it up and grease it again to see what happens when you turn it on.
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Old Oct 6, 2020 | 10:39 AM
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Also check to see if the bucket is making contact with the hood. I have no clue on how it happened but mine started to do that about 10 years or so ago. It scratched up the paint on the buckets pretty bad but didn't do anything to the hood. I think it was due to one of the screws coming lose but don't recall. Just something else to check while looking at the motors.
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Does it still bind and screech when you manually open it by turning the ****?
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No when I do it manually it all goes smoothly.
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Can you have someone else operate the light sw while you try to isolate the noise source?
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Originally Posted by 65Z01
Can you have someone else operate the light sw while you try to isolate the noise source?
I’ll try later tonight but the hood is also now stuck which is awesome. But I’ll take a look
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