Must be that both issues will cause the motor to get it's panties in a bunch. lol Learn something new every day. I had already replaced my stripped gears so maybe the gear failure causes the stops to get crushed??? Who knows. Hopefully he figures it out.

 

Does anyone have pics of these derlin stops?

My drivers side light has been over torquing for a while now. I would pop the the hood in embarrasment and give the manual **** a couple turns to release the pressure, and it would open like normal for 2 or 3 times.

I believe the over torquing is wearing on my gear.

 

You will see one close to the manual ****. It's an off white color. There are two down below which in my case, were the ones I beefed up and flipped around 180*. I know there are at least 3 in all but may be another I didn't notice. Just look by the **** with the lights down and you will see them.

 

Its nice to know, I'm not the only one to have someone walk by and say "nice car" as I open the hood to unscrew the **** and smile back and say Thanks...in embarrassment.....

 

Nothing like waiting until nobody is around to try to pop the headlight up. I've driven around the block with my fogs on to pull over to pop the hood to loosen up the lights so that nobody would see me doing it. Sucks.

 

I got it figured out. I turned my stops 180 degrees. My nylon gear was stripped, so I rotated it. Here is a helpful link and a good place to buy the gears. .http://http://www.bfranker.badz28.co...fix/index.htm.

 

How did the stops look?

 

I had a similar problem to the OP's when I replaced my gears last weekend.

Finished both installs, buttoned up everything, re-connected the battery and turned on the headlights. One side worked perfectly. The other headlamp unit rotated in reverse of the correctly-working one.

So...I removed the two pivot bolts holding each light to its housing, tilted the headlights forward so I could look behind them into the light bay, and checked to see if there were any visual differences between my two installs. There was. The malfunctioning light's motor shaft bolt was about 150 degrees out of synq with the other one, causing the bad headlight's pivot arm to bend at almost exactly the opposite angle from the correctly functioning one.

Solution? I took the cap off of the bad headlight's vertical adjustment ****, then twisted that **** until the "bad" motor shaft bolt was in allignment with the good one. Reinstalled everything and...viola...everything worked perfectly.

Of course, I checked and fine-tuned the vertical allignment of each headlight after the install. But at the end of the day, all is now functioning as it should.

After all was over, I re-read the written instructions that had been included in the brass gear package. Those instructions included a clear warning to be sure the pre- and post-install angles of the pivot arm were identical. But (1) that warning was written, chronologically, too late in the written instructions to provide a proactive warning, and (2) frankly, until after I had screwed up the install, I didn't comprehend the instructions' warning.

Lesson learned, I guess.


The Lizzard

 

The down travel stop was worn down about 1/16"( I should have taken a pic). I was surprised that the amount of wear made such a difference. Every thing is still working great.
I have not ordered my new gear yet, I hope my free fix will last a long time with the stop turned around.