Stay down headlight conversions....
10-11-01, 12:37 PM
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It's an easy mod to do in your driveway, I've done it and hopefully can find a pic somewhere...
Buy enough wire to make 2 trips from a switch you will put in the car to the engine bay fuse box. Buy a switch.
Find the retractor fuse and cut the wire leading to it. Leave some room connect a wire from where the wire comes out of the fuse box. I believe this wire is yellow (in an '86 GXL).
From the fuse box the new wire you hooked up will go alll the way to your switch, and back again to the fuse box where you connect it to the remaining cut wire. Done!
With the switch off, when you turn on the light they will stay in the down position as the circuit is broken to pop them up. When _on_ the circuit is completed and the headlight will pop up.
Looks cool even in daylight and cost $5 or less.
edit: you won't get the warning that you have left your lights on anymore. Be careful.
--Mike
Buy enough wire to make 2 trips from a switch you will put in the car to the engine bay fuse box. Buy a switch.
Find the retractor fuse and cut the wire leading to it. Leave some room connect a wire from where the wire comes out of the fuse box. I believe this wire is yellow (in an '86 GXL).
From the fuse box the new wire you hooked up will go alll the way to your switch, and back again to the fuse box where you connect it to the remaining cut wire. Done!
With the switch off, when you turn on the light they will stay in the down position as the circuit is broken to pop them up. When _on_ the circuit is completed and the headlight will pop up.
Looks cool even in daylight and cost $5 or less.
edit: you won't get the warning that you have left your lights on anymore. Be careful.
--Mike
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10-11-01, 12:42 PM
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No no no....
Thanks for your mini how to but I am looking to take out all of the original headlight equipment and build some headlights in a little enclosure and cover it with plexiglass. I think Cosmo Donk has something similar.
10-11-01, 02:35 PM
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I bought some inexpensive pieces of 1/16 in. steel, and I plan on building an enclosure to go in place of the current headlights. My total costs will be under $100, but I wanted to get some ideas from others who have done this. Thanks.
10-11-01, 10:01 PM
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well i think i did what you are asking i just took my trusty string line snaped aline from the botom of the light door to the botom of the flash to pass and reached for my hook blade and cut
then pulled the motor arms of the light so the would stay down
then tin in a bay or what ever that fits tight then take some silicone go around the edge then pop rivit some thin plexie over top
then pulled the motor arms of the light so the would stay down
then tin in a bay or what ever that fits tight then take some silicone go around the edge then pop rivit some thin plexie over top
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