What's an easier way to do this??? I've tried breaking it with pliers, prying with a flathead... it's like digging through concrete with a spoon.

 

tamatt and redraif have - that I know of.

 

I thought tamatt just took the outer lense off?

I'm practicing on the tails off that maroon t/a at Bubba's shop. I also snagged the deluxe door panels out of it. I've been searching for a set for a while and didn't realize that car hed em.

It's a shame that car burned cause it had an overhead console in it too but the front got melted

 

Well, I don't think this is possible. The lenses I'm working with were in good shape (the pieces aren't separating) and with every little piece of grid that comes out takes some of the lense out and looks crappy.

I think this idea is gonna have to be scrapped. At least now I have a spare drivers side taillight (this pass. side one I tore up was cracked anyway...)

 

there's about 30 hours of careful labour in it, with little room for error... if you want it to be perfect.

 

Don't get me started on Bubba's shop. But glad you at least got something done out of there in the last couple months.

 

I just took the outer lenses off completely. I was thinking about taking the grids off and using some spray tint on the inside of the lenses and seeing how they looked; but I decided on the one-piece blackout instead. I still have my outer lenses, if anyone wants to try it out without messing up their own. I'm back at home though.

 

What happened now? I saw your car sitting there for a while but didn't know what was up.

 

I had a set of taillights that were totally seperated already. All I had to do was pry and break slow but sure. I have not a clue what would be needed to get a good holding set of grids off.

 

hey redraif , where have you been , i havent seen any posts from you in a long time.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW

 

Those are not 85-90 T/A tails....

 

I know. They're gridless. What would be different?

 

Gridless TA lights

The ebay ones are the stock firebird lights.


Here is my explaination from another post on my lack of posts!

Yep I'm still alive...so I have been missing from the internet. Because of the job I got last Aug, I could not get online at work like I used to. At home... Up until a few days ago I had some serious cable issues with my cable modem...can you say idoit cable repair guys! I had tried cable because the phone lines here have always carried to much static, so the dial up and dsl route did not work! SO I went with cable...good idea, yeah right.

I have been complaining for years about poor tv reception. At one point they inspected the cable lines & said I had a negative input. Instead of replacing the line, the put in an amp. Well that sort of worked, till I got internet cable access a few monthes ago. It never worked, thought it was a virus, but it was the darn old lines from the road. So finally after all these years of bad reception & complaining someone finally agreed w/ me and replaced the freaking line up to the road. I can finally get online and see all my channels clear! Yeah!

Now I just have to find time to post...I have a ton of emails to check up on. My website is a mess...cardomain did something and all my pics are mixed up. Then when I do move them the sizes are wrong! Man what 9mo of neglect can do!

Still going strong on Raif though...more performance stuff lately. Did an engine swap...nope not a V-8 though, had to have the car back up and running too soon. Instead a 3.4 block swap. See, my back up dually got stolen as some of you know. It's now engine & transmissionless, so it made Raif my only car. So the 3.4 was a good quick upgrade...gave me 75 extra ftlbs of torque! HP is up too, but not enough...going to do some more aggressive porting the help the car breath and go with bigger exhaust. Then once the 82 is done right I will put a real motor in RAIF.

How's that for an I'm back post!

 

Glad to see you made it back to the boards, was wondering where you went......

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