pop-up headlight won't stay up

[sumenlo]

So back in the day, I did the half-ass sleepy eye mod on my 1g. They've been sitting at halfway up for about a year now. My buddy accidentally leaned on one of the headlights a couple weeks ago, and now I can't get it to stay in any sort of up position at all. If I use the manual knob, it moves up, then stops and falls back down. It seems as if the gears are all effed up and broken. Does anybody know of a fix for this? My buddy used to have a 94 firebird with pop-ups and he had the same problem. He wound up finding a fix kit online somewhere and we did it in like 10 minutes. If there's something out there like this for our cars, that would be great.

 

[sumenlo]

Does anybody have any suggestions on this? I'm really stumped for a solution. I hate coming out after work and having to manually pull my headlight back up to position. There's gotta be some kind of repair kit out there for us.........................

 

[NMFDChris1G]

Did u see if the ball fell out of the joint thing???

 

[sumenlo]

Did u see if the ball fell out of the joint thing???

bro, I appreciate your willingness to help, but your reply didn't honestly help at all. I have no idea what ball or joint thing your are talking about.

 

[Sivad87]

bro, I appreciate your willingness to help, but your reply didn't honestly help at all. I have no idea what ball or joint thing your are talking about.

Ok, i would check the rod that goes to the headlights from the motor. check if it is damaged in anyway. otherwise i would look at replacing the motor. it could be screwed up.

 

[MikeCordell]

When I started working on my car it had like a lazy eye halfway sleepy eye look going on. Drove me nuts. Plus I couldn't get one of the lights to go up at all manually, the previous owner simply cut, I repeat CUT!!! the turn signal to allow light to go through. So I looked and the lights have a rod with 2 ball joints. One on each end, facing in opposite directions. On the non-working light it was simply popped off of the light. Putting it on was proving to be more difficult than I imagined (likely hard enough to deter whoever went at this car with a die grinder to get thr motor mount out). So I used the closed end of a wrench against the fender for leverage and the ball popped right into the socket. I later went back and adjusted both lights so they sit flush with the fenders using the nuts on the rod. Hope I helped somewhat.

Mike

 

[Tsi_User]

Ok, i would check the rod that goes to the headlights from the motor. check if it is damaged in anyway. otherwise i would look at replacing the motor. it could be screwed up.

precisely, there is a rod that runs from the arm of the window motors to the frame of the whole flip assembley. When i did the lazy eye to my car i just pulled off the rods and they sit there just fine without being hooked up to the motor atll though so i'm not sure