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Jun 12, 2006 | 10:59 AM

TSLDave

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Headlight Motor

One headlight makes a grinding noise for about 15 seconds after its lowered. Is this a bad gear or what. If so, how hard is it to fix?

Jun 12, 2006 | 11:23 AM

allmee

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Originally Posted by TSLDave

One headlight makes a grinding noise for about 15 seconds after its lowered. Is this a bad gear or what. If so, how hard is it to fix?

Yes, this a bad gear. It is not too hard to replace although when mine went bad in 1 motor, I R&R'd the gear twice, and in both instances the gear went bad again rather quickly. The housing where the gear is must be BROKEN open and then re-glued ir appoxied after the gear has been replaced. After the work and short life of the 2 replacements, I then just bought a whole new motor assembly.

Jun 12, 2006 | 11:33 AM

vette dan

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Use rodney's brass gear upgrade. Look in sticky'e in general.

Jun 24, 2006 | 11:54 PM

2fast4sanity

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Use rodney's brass gears, btw I believe only '00-'04 need to be broke open. My '97 had a screw on cover and i belive '98 and '99 are the same. I replaced mine and a year later I haven't had another problem.