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06-19-2012
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Greenwood Indiana
Posts: 50
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Headlight gear box.
After getting my new tires put on, I took the ZR-1 out for the first time in 24 months. Had quite a few people stop and look at my car and comment how they had read about ZR-1's, but never saw a real one. Nice to see that there are still some people who can look at a C4 and recognize a major difference!
Later in the evening I left to go home and when I turned on the head lights, they rotated half way around a quit. I made me some new pucks out of Delrin and rebuilt them. Head lights work as new again. I thought it was quite odd that both sides failed at the same time. When I opened the gear box, both looked they had salt in them. I wonder if the lube that was applied originally causes the original pucks to desintigrate?? I also wonder what the OEM pucks were made of? |
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Peoria, AZ
Posts: 9,153
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Re: Headlight gear box.
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 Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Dunbarton NH
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Re: Headlight gear box.
Gordan Killebrew advised me that because we all run glass headlights as opposed to the plastic ones Chevy put in them the gears are sure to fail.
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06-19-2012
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 Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Evergreen, Co.
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Re: Headlight gear box.
Gordon told me the same thing, but it is the bushings that turn to powder inside the headlight motor housing, yet the gears remain serviceable. My Z with 3,500 miles had bushings that were disintegrated, so the original question was what caused this to happen over time?
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Mystic CT
Posts: 2,597
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Re: Headlight gear box.
The usual GM quality...
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06-19-2012
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Pineville, LA
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Re: Headlight gear box.
Make sure and change the little screws that hold the motor on as well. On the 89 I had changed the bushings and then about a year later the screw head popped off and the motor tore up the brushes on the inside. This was about 4 years ago and since I don't drive it much I still haven't fixed it. It wouldn't have been an issue if I had changed them in the first place to SS or something else. Two screws per motor, you can see one in this picture next to the white and green wires:
 Don't get cheap like I did or just think they will hold. Spend a few cents and be safe. The ones on the 89 looked no worse than the ones pictured above. Daniel |
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