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Old Jan 24, 2008 | 10:15 PM
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What components would I need to make the tail lights flush with the body?. I see some kits out there but I would like to make my own.
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Old Jan 24, 2008 | 10:23 PM
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What components would I need to make the tail lights flush with the body?. I see some kits out there but I would like to make my own.
8 stainless steal screws that are longer than the stock ones. Some pieces of hard plastic that you can drill through. Two different types of gaskets.

Search some of the vendor sites to see if you can find a good picture of all these parts. Much easier to see them than to try to describe them here. I have seen this kit for 19.95 somewhere recently which is not bad considering the price of gas to collect all this stuff.

I think I have installed about five sets of these for people so it is not a hard thing to do. Did one at our hotel at Carlisle a couple of years ago that we had gotten from West Coast Corvettes.

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Old Jan 25, 2008 | 01:29 AM
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I was thinking of using 1/2" PVC pipe for the spacers????
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Old Jan 25, 2008 | 09:03 AM
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That would probably work. You almost have to have some type of seal once you push them out that far. I bought the 19.95 ones from flea bay, but once I say what they were, you could make them yourself. They just already had the distance right.
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Old Jan 25, 2008 | 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by tstar
I was thinking of using 1/2" PVC pipe for the spacers????
I was thinking the same thing but I have not taken the lights off to see what I can do.
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Old Jan 25, 2008 | 10:37 PM
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I was thinking of using 1/2" PVC pipe for the spacers????
no, go to home depot
they have some spacers you just cut to length, got em from the section with all the specialty hardware.
it was like 10 for a buck

If I remeber correctly the 2 outside ones are a bit shorter than the other 6

do a search and you can find the info
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Originally Posted by LTCHAPPA
What components would I need to make the tail lights flush with the body?. I see some kits out there but I would like to make my own.
Just tripped over this at Fleabay
Item #120213267147 15.95 + 4.50 ship
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Old Jan 26, 2008 | 01:30 AM
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A few pics.

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That's the look I'm after Paul, not totally flush but inset the exact same depth as the third brake light. You got those nylon spacers were thetaxman suggested? It looks like two are 3/4" and the rest are one inch or 7/8"...

Thanx both of you! Those, longer screws some EPDM and Spring time and I'm set!

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That's the look I'm after Paul, not totally flush but inset the exact same depth as the third brake light. You got those nylon spacers were thetaxman suggested? It looks like two are 3/4" and the rest are one inch or 7/8"...

Thanx both of you! Those, longer screws some EPDM and Spring time and I'm set!
Thay came from eba...y last lear. I only had them for 60 days or so. When I went to LEDs I took the spacers out. I Would try and make your own. 1" and 3/4" spacers work well.

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Originally Posted by 04BlueGoose
Just tripped over this at Fleabay
Item #120213267147 15.95 + 4.50 ship
and you can go to home depot and make them for about 3 bucks
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Hopefully this link works for you

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1373344
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Originally Posted by yaknow
Thanks 4 the link
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Thanx!!!
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I forgot about the weather strip.
I did install it when I did mine though.
I didn't spend that much for any of the parts though.
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Try Lowes for all the spacers, ss screws, ect that you need. Should total less than $10.00

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