Headlight Arm not seating properly.

[Need4Camaro]

The arm that connects to the motor is not going deep enough to meet the physical buffer on the headlight motor itself. It just slides right past it making for a very awkward closed position. Any way to fix this?

[Need4Camaro]

Re: Headlight Arm not seating properly.

Seriously need help on this guys, my driverside headlight is now unable to to stop functioning when turned out. the arm is missing both tabs and results in it going in a full 360 circle and the headlight goes up and down and up and down and up and down indefinitely without ever stopping when the headlights are turned out.

[whitdog54]

Re: Headlight Arm not seating properly.

post picture, its missing the tabs? get the tabs lol

[Need4Camaro]

Re: Headlight Arm not seating properly.

post picture, its missing the tabs? get the tabs lol

Its too dark down there for my Camera phone - I have no way of doing so and these tabs are the buffers of which stops the arm and there's two of them, they sit just outside of the headlight motor but they're not something you can "buy" they're apart of the whole headlight assembly

[firebird19_99]

Re: Headlight Arm not seating properly.

i know what your talking about, one of mine is missing too but my headlight motor goes down fine? have you tried manually lowering the headlight all the way down til it seats right?>

[Atrum Rosa]

Re: Headlight Arm not seating properly.

The headlight motors are about as stupid as a design as it can get. They go until they meet resistance, at which point the computer turn them off sensing the electrical resistance, or they "time out". You need to either replace the part with the missing tabs, or rig some way to physically stop the headlight in the correct position. Hard to give advice on the description you gave, but also make sure the gear isn't stripped, and the arm isn't on backwards. I've had to deal with both of those problems. A good site that might have what you need: Link

[Atrum Rosa]

Re: Headlight Arm not seating properly.

Okay, apparently the word censor won't let me link the site correctly.

Go to: http://rodneyd!ckman.com/catalog/index.php

and replace the ! with an i.

[2.8 Bird]

Re: Headlight Arm not seating properly.

There's a tab or a stopper. Is that missing? The knob should rotate all the way.

I just fixed mine early this year and I installed brass gears in them.

[whitdog54]

Re: Headlight Arm not seating properly.

ya there is 2 bump stops that stop the motor. Just throw a bolt, some washers and nuts in there. Itd be the same thing