Hey guys, need some help....

So I am going to try and replace my headlight motor AGAIN this week. I bought a used one out of a junkyard about 3 months ago and threw it on. I don't think I properly put it on, becuase I noticed that when I put the headlight up or down, the motor would continue to spin for a while , probably stripping the hell out of the gears. So of course after about a month or so, the headlight wouldn;t come back up. So now I have bought yet another headlight motor and I am going to pay a little bit more attention this time when I put it on.

My question is how should I go about putting it on? What tells the motor to quit spinning? Here's my plan for replacing it this time. First off, I'm gonnna turn the headlight switch to teh on position. Then i'm gonna disconnect the battery. Then I'm gonna remove the old motor. Then I'm goign to install the new motor, and this time pay CLOSE attention to make sure I have the piece of metal that raises and lowers the headlight FLAT against the "bump" stop in the up position. Then I'm reconnect the battery, then hopefully flip the headlights down, and the motor will stop running when it actually goes down.

any suggestions?

Ryan

 

Hey,

Sounds like your first motor was F&%*$d up in the first place. If you piced it up from a boneyard its gears were probably ripped up anyways.

I replaced mine. I took the headlight out unscrewed a couple of bolts and put the new one in. It shouldn't be a problem granted you get a functional motor

-Max

 

You probably don't have to replace your motor - check my site for instructions on fixing headlights...

Steve

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Steve's Trans Am Temple

 

Heh, I had to replace it after I took the first one apart and one of the springs inside the motor unit went flying across the room and I was unable to find it.

Ryan