Made a Headlight Clearing writeup

[fauchpj]

For all those who are interested...

http://www.auburn.edu/~fauchpj/headlight.htm

 

[mitsugsx95]

Awsome walkthrough! I was thinking about doing that to my lights instead of buying the projectors. Still cant seem to get the front bumper off the car though. Got any ideas?

 

[fauchpj]

Remove the 10mm bolts on the bottom of the factory bumper. (6 total)


-Remove the plastic screws from the front of each inner fenderwell. turn the wheels to the opposite side to get them out. i chose not to reuse them so i used a pair of pliers to pull them out and threw them away, they just make it harder to bolt and unbolt the sides of the bumper or remove the bumper sidemarkers.


-Fold the inner fenderwell plastic back and go behind it to remove the 2 screws/bolts that hold the bumper to the fender.


-Unbolt the five 10mm bolts on top of the bumper and the 10mm bolt on top of each headlight.




-Now you must remove the headlight to get to the last two bolts. On the backside outer edge of each headlight are two more 10mm bolts holding the light to the frame. these are hard to get to without an assortment of wrenches and sockets, but you may find it easier than i did. The final headlight bolt is the hardest to get to. If you look closely from behind the lights, they are at the very bottom of the headlight. They can also be seen if you lay down in front of the car and look up through the front air dam hole. Just get a reallly long socket wrench extension and slide it through in between the gap of the bottom of the headlight and the bumper...easy. Now you can reach the last two on each top side of the bumper there on the 30mph bumper crash zone crossmember.


-The front bumper should now slide off.

 

[Corruptor]

Is there any other way to get the lights out, other than removing the bumper? I've been wanting to take em out and get the haze off my light covers, at least. Thanks.

 

[toshi128]

can you make a walk thru on removing a bumper as well?

 

[Darkman]

You happen to know if this will work with a 1g light

 

[RedTurboEclipse]

good job
although, you should take a pic of them on the car maybe before the mod and after.. also include how to take off the bumper too like you posted here.. other than that.. good job again..

 

[quwhees99]

hey that's great!!!

 

[fauchpj]

these were a spare set of lights, thats why i didnt show any pics of them on and off the car. they havent been on for over a year

 

[Neuera05GST]

So is the headlights on your car now and if they are did you have to shave the 97-99 bumber anywhere to fit the lights. I know the 95-96 headlights are alot longer than the 97-99 lights.

 

[fauchpj]

these were a spare set of lights, thats why i didnt show any pics of them on and off the car. they havent been on for over a year

 

[wibblersnatch]

what kind of paint did you use?

 

[fauchpj]

base of high heat black paint and then krylon semi-flat over that