Headlight Help Please God!!?!
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Headlight Help Please God!!?!
So the past two months my passenger side headlight has been grinding for about 5 seconds after turning them off. No problem, know thats the motor.
Than this past month the drivers side headlight(when turned off) drops down and then pops back up about halfway and stays. I was having to manually lowere the headlight myself every night.
So i finally decide to work on them. I buy the brass gear from rodneys site. I turned the headlights on, shut the car off, and disconnected the battery. Took the passenger headlight assembly out, unbolted the motor, took out the cheap stock plastic gear(which had the teeth chipped to hell and back). Anyways, installed the new gear. Reassembled everything. Hooked the battery back up and the headlights turn on fine but wont go down.
I have to manually lower them and raise them now. No grinding anymore, no headlight popping up and down anymore. Easy, because neither motor is working now. Neither one is even doing anything. This doesnt make sense since I didnt even mess with the drivers side one so why both motors completely unresponsive? I checked most of the fuses, they looked alright. What could possibly have happened??!? please anyone any help asap and I would owe you so bad. Thank you
Kyle
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I had a similar problem once where my headlights were doing a bunch of weird things. My fix was a fuse thats in the fuse box in the passenger side floor board-#2 fuse: Monitored LD(I believe). You might check out that fuse and the rest in the floor board if you already havent. I thought at first that it may have been the headlight module that is underneath the passenger headlight assembly. I have an extra one but am not sure if its any good. If you would want to try it out I can send it to you and if it works you can just have it.
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Did you crank them up manually and then leave them in that position when you turned the switch? It almost sounds like the connectors that plug into the actuator module attached to the passenger side bucket are not plugged in or making clean contact.
I would crank them all the way up manually, check those connections and then crank them back down manually. When you pull the connector, look inside and make sure none of the contacts are dirty or bent. Make sure you hear an audible "click" when you connect both of them (the smaller one and the larger one). Make sure that the contacts didn't get flattened and that there is some spring tension in the contact so that the female side (on the wires) is making good tight contact with the male side on the actuator itself.
Good luck - let us know how you fare......
I would crank them all the way up manually, check those connections and then crank them back down manually. When you pull the connector, look inside and make sure none of the contacts are dirty or bent. Make sure you hear an audible "click" when you connect both of them (the smaller one and the larger one). Make sure that the contacts didn't get flattened and that there is some spring tension in the contact so that the female side (on the wires) is making good tight contact with the male side on the actuator itself.
Good luck - let us know how you fare......
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Check your connections again. Make sure everything is good and set. Can also check the actuator and relay to make sure you didnt blow that somehow. You didnt need to disconnect battery to do the motors...simply turn on lights, disconnect lights, turn off lights...that will leave them up and everything off.
FYI: Also, once you get the lights working again, I am willing to bet money your drivers side will pop right back up again halfway. Your tabs are shot. You need to get about three washers and place them on all the bolts (3 x 3) that will push the motor out far enough to catch a good part of the tabs, or you can get some hard tubing and extend your tabs.
FYI: Also, once you get the lights working again, I am willing to bet money your drivers side will pop right back up again halfway. Your tabs are shot. You need to get about three washers and place them on all the bolts (3 x 3) that will push the motor out far enough to catch a good part of the tabs, or you can get some hard tubing and extend your tabs.
