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note: this was originally posted by peteex on april 19, 2002 on sho. i do not take credit for this. i am merely getting this information to you.
I finally did it, I woke up this morning and was bored so I decided to tackle this project which I've been wanting to do for months, best part is it only took about 5 hrs. total.
1.) remove your bumper cover and your headlamp assemblies. not difficult four bolts per lamp total.
2.) Heat oven to 200-235 farhenheit. place one lamp in at a time for ten to fifteen min. use a large flat head screw driver and a pair of work gloves( those lamps are HOT!!) and gently pry the pieces apart, it's quite easy if you use the oven because the whole lamp is warm not just one spot. whole process 15-20 min per lamp. then just unscrew the chrome assembly from the lens.
removing the orange reflector is quite easy.
next I masked off the reflector area around the turnsignal. then I cleaned the whole thing with denatured alcohol and distilled water. I the sprayed several coats of rustoleum mettallics black and let it set for 5 min. *(I chose this color since it seemed to be a bit more interesting than just plain black, plus they didn't have the color I wanted in high temp paint, to solve this I did the following)*
I followed up with a wet coat of Duplicolor Clear high temp engine paint. I let it dry for a full three hours as directed
Next I took a tube of clear silicon sealant and ran bead all around the seam of the headlamp. I reinstalled the newly painted housing back onto the lens and push the whole assembly together as best I could. I then put them back in the oven for ten minutes to soften the sealant and was then able to push them together completly. I then reinstalled them and voila!!
I am very pleased with the end result and would recomend that anyone with the time and skill try it. It's really not that difficult. As you can see I didn't try to clear the orange reflectors, but I figured that I didn't have the materials to do it correctly so I didn't actually bother.
not a single thing melted except for the sealant. The halogen bulb inside your headlamp gets much hotter than 200 degrees and therefore your headlamp housing is built to withstand much more heat than that. The sealant dosen't liquify or melt but it just gets really soft and plyable that's why it pulls apart so easily.
I let the housings dry in the sun, I don't know if it made any difference or made it dry any faster, but I haven't had any problems yet and they did dry smooth as glass.
I looked into black when I did it, but decided on the mettalic black because I think it made it a little more interesting, it's not as dark as flat or gloss black but not as light as true 99-00 CTR's.
And just so everyone knows, I experienced no drop in light output, if I did, it's so small that I didn't notice.
I finally did it, I woke up this morning and was bored so I decided to tackle this project which I've been wanting to do for months, best part is it only took about 5 hrs. total.
1.) remove your bumper cover and your headlamp assemblies. not difficult four bolts per lamp total.
2.) Heat oven to 200-235 farhenheit. place one lamp in at a time for ten to fifteen min. use a large flat head screw driver and a pair of work gloves( those lamps are HOT!!) and gently pry the pieces apart, it's quite easy if you use the oven because the whole lamp is warm not just one spot. whole process 15-20 min per lamp. then just unscrew the chrome assembly from the lens.
removing the orange reflector is quite easy.
next I masked off the reflector area around the turnsignal. then I cleaned the whole thing with denatured alcohol and distilled water. I the sprayed several coats of rustoleum mettallics black and let it set for 5 min. *(I chose this color since it seemed to be a bit more interesting than just plain black, plus they didn't have the color I wanted in high temp paint, to solve this I did the following)*
I followed up with a wet coat of Duplicolor Clear high temp engine paint. I let it dry for a full three hours as directed
Next I took a tube of clear silicon sealant and ran bead all around the seam of the headlamp. I reinstalled the newly painted housing back onto the lens and push the whole assembly together as best I could. I then put them back in the oven for ten minutes to soften the sealant and was then able to push them together completly. I then reinstalled them and voila!!
I am very pleased with the end result and would recomend that anyone with the time and skill try it. It's really not that difficult. As you can see I didn't try to clear the orange reflectors, but I figured that I didn't have the materials to do it correctly so I didn't actually bother.
not a single thing melted except for the sealant. The halogen bulb inside your headlamp gets much hotter than 200 degrees and therefore your headlamp housing is built to withstand much more heat than that. The sealant dosen't liquify or melt but it just gets really soft and plyable that's why it pulls apart so easily.
I let the housings dry in the sun, I don't know if it made any difference or made it dry any faster, but I haven't had any problems yet and they did dry smooth as glass.
I looked into black when I did it, but decided on the mettalic black because I think it made it a little more interesting, it's not as dark as flat or gloss black but not as light as true 99-00 CTR's.
And just so everyone knows, I experienced no drop in light output, if I did, it's so small that I didn't notice.
he still at Sout AMerica i belive Chili