Yesterday evening I sorted out the headlights, I say sorted more like a dam good clean as looking at the chrome on the lights it going to have to be stripped and re-chromed which is not something I can do.
First thing I noticed was yet again was rust, the clips to hold the top of the lights in place had rusted and cracked the plastic. Will see if I can find these if not these will need to be cleaned up and painted.
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Next job was quiet easy pop the clips and remove the glass, just note this rubber dome gets in the way so the glass has to be tilted to get the lip of the glass over it.
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The glass was given a good wash as it was dirty.
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The main seal between the housing & the glass had plenty of dirt & mould on it. Dirt was easy enough but the mould was proving difficult to shift until I tried this stuff. It got rid of 95% of the mould and was very impressed. I will be buying new seals but for the moment just wanted a temporary fix.
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For the plastic housing I just cleaned it out as best I could with class cleaner. As I did not strip the light down completely I used cotton wool buds to clean the inside of the projector lens, you have to bend them a bit to clean the lens but it did the job.
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For the chrome trim there was nothing I could do with that, even slightly abrasive or solvent based cleaner will remove the coating so just gave it a wipe down with Windolene, which remove the dirt but that was about it.
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The reflector lens cleaned up well using Windolene, however one of the reflectors is not in the best of condition so again will need to be sent away for re-chroming.
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Final job was to put them back together
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They look a hole lot better than before so was please with the results. However I'm left knowing the lights will need sending away to be fully restored and I need to find or clean the metal clips and I also need to find this cog, as yet again rust has damaged the plastic.
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So now on the lookout for a replacement cog or a damaged unit I can salvage a cog from.
First thing I noticed was yet again was rust, the clips to hold the top of the lights in place had rusted and cracked the plastic. Will see if I can find these if not these will need to be cleaned up and painted.
1-clips.jpg
2-plastic.jpg
Next job was quiet easy pop the clips and remove the glass, just note this rubber dome gets in the way so the glass has to be tilted to get the lip of the glass over it.
3-glass.jpg
The glass was given a good wash as it was dirty.
4-glass.jpg
The main seal between the housing & the glass had plenty of dirt & mould on it. Dirt was easy enough but the mould was proving difficult to shift until I tried this stuff. It got rid of 95% of the mould and was very impressed. I will be buying new seals but for the moment just wanted a temporary fix.
4-seal.jpg
For the plastic housing I just cleaned it out as best I could with class cleaner. As I did not strip the light down completely I used cotton wool buds to clean the inside of the projector lens, you have to bend them a bit to clean the lens but it did the job.
5-buds.jpg
For the chrome trim there was nothing I could do with that, even slightly abrasive or solvent based cleaner will remove the coating so just gave it a wipe down with Windolene, which remove the dirt but that was about it.
6-chrome.jpg
The reflector lens cleaned up well using Windolene, however one of the reflectors is not in the best of condition so again will need to be sent away for re-chroming.
7-chrome.jpg
8-chrome.jpg
Final job was to put them back together
9 light.jpg
They look a hole lot better than before so was please with the results. However I'm left knowing the lights will need sending away to be fully restored and I need to find or clean the metal clips and I also need to find this cog, as yet again rust has damaged the plastic.
10-damage.jpg
So now on the lookout for a replacement cog or a damaged unit I can salvage a cog from.
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