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Tourer
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Dallas, Texas | Well, I don't absolutley, 'have to', at this point. The housing is still sealed, and not craked through, but I somehow had a pair of what used to be grasshoppers, bake into my headlight housing just above the bulbs. I buffed, wet sanded, and tried my best, but it still shows. So, when the time comes, I may end up replacing the housing. Am I really going to have to removed all that fairing plastic, and such, just to get to the housing to remove and replace it? Are there any shortcuts for that?
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Visionary
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| Not really but most of it. Dash and all of left side. Its the easer of the two.
What about wet sanding with 2000 and have some one that know how to use a power buffer. If you sand use a pail of warm water with dish soap in it just a few drops that way plastic will not build up on paper. Make sure you use wet sand paper its always black in color
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Tourer
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New Orleans, La, | Remove the black belly pan and the grill trim. Remove the windshield cowl panel and at the same time disconnect the anntena. Remove the 2 6mm socket head bolts on either side of the headlight housing that also secure the turn signal/running light housings then remove the 2 4mm socket head bolts that secure the headlight housing to the body panels that form the mirror housing. These bolts are only accessable from behind the headlight housing. Push slightly down, so that the adjustment knob will clear the headlight housing frame mount, and then p-----ull forward while carefully bending the body panels until the housing is free and clear of the body panels. Hope that helps, it's how I do it.------- | |
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Tourer
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New Orleans, La, | I forgot that you need to remove the 4 10mm hex head bolts from the 4 corners of the headlight housing before attempting to remove the housing. | |
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Headlight Housing Replacement