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Why don't my headlights fit properly in the body?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:08 pm
by Ren
Why don't my headlights fit properly in the body?
Ideas please?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:16 pm
by jb
wrong body?
wrong headlight?
sorry!
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:30 pm
by Paul @ P R Services
Probably because whoever fitted the head-light bucket into the wing welded it too far back.
You have to set the bucket into the wing and check the head-light fit with the seal for head-light to body fitted before you weld.
Next time you are at a show look to see how many cars haven't got their seals fitted for this reason.
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:46 pm
by 58A - 71E
^^^ Wot Paul said - bowls shouldn't be welded in place unless lights and seals are trial fitted first - took a fair bit of work to get mine right as putting the bowls in takes a fair bit of effort and dead easy to push them in too far
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:03 pm
by Graham
One other thing I have found is on quite a few repro lights the chrome rims dont have as much of a roll on the edge as the originals,you can carefully work the rolled edge around some more to gain quite a bit.
But as others have said,its critical to do it in bare metal,and to allow for paint and primer.