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Old 03-31-2008, 12:42 PM   #1 (permalink)
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3rd Generation Headlight Adjustment???

I have 4 sets of headlights (1992) and all won't adjust side-to-side. Up/down is fine (that's straight forward). I know how the side-to-side is supposed to work (it's a bad design) but they get stuck. To take off the black housing, you take off the spring, the up/down adjustment holder, and there's a small socket that's held in by 2 phillips screws that you can't get to and a nut that you can't get to (a wrench will hit the lens) unless there is a special tool. Is there another way to split the lens from the housing???
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it's time for you to get a new set of headlight
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I did!!! I bought a set from Ebay made in China ...
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Been there! I too bought a headlight off ebay...lesson learned!
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I don't know how much different 92 models and 95 models are. In my 95 I was able to run the side to side control out all the way (hyper extending it) to finally get a philips screw drive to access the remaining socket screws. I had a very thin carburetor wrench that was able to get on the nut toward the outside of the reflector between it and the body. The wrench had two very different angles and I was able to turn the nut a little at a time by going back and forth between the angles.

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That's the way I'm going to do it also. Is there an off-set tool for this???
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