Did some taillight maintainence today

[RUNINAGT]

Do they look even now?? My driver side is dimmer than my pass side.

 

[Mustang5L5]

Yup, they are perfect!

 

[92GreenGT]

How did you get your lens off the housing? Oven or what?

 

[Mustang5L5]

Pried very carefully with a wide screwdriver after warming the area up with a heatgun set on low

 

[ryan218]

Friend who works in Auto-body had some that he gave me.

I hear NAPA sells it but i never got a chance to go by and get some from them

yeah they sell it.

 

[Hissing Cobra]

Those look very nice! I did the same restoration to my '79 taillights when I put my car together 4 years ago. It definitely makes a difference.

 

[Darkwriter77]

Repainted mine with the same chrome paint when I replaced my smashed LX lenses a couple months ago. HUGE difference in the amount of light output. Used the butile ribbon that came with the lenses, but it never sealed up right and the clips wouldn't hold the lenses in quite firmly enough for whatever reason, so I wound up using black RTV silicone to seal things up. No problems since.

 

[Prime Lord]

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I did this a few years ago...everybody who saw them said they were the brightest LX lights they'd ever seen. Good thing too, because visibility is cheif!

/yes, I'm stopping

 

[woodyy24]

they look great!! i have the same taillights and mine are pretty dim, ive had 3 people pull up next to me and tell me so.
ill be doing mine pretty soon, thanks for the idea!

 

[Mustang5L5]

I've actually been seeing quite a few foxes on the roads with dim taillights. I guess the age of these cars is doing a number on the reflective surface inside the lights.

Guess it's time to start getting the word out that some guys need to address this issue like I have.

 

[cobrasnake93]

Hey guys. Im new here and would like to see an example of this installed on the car,day,night,off,on.. Whatever you guys care to post! Thanks

 

[Shaolin Crane]

holy decaying post batman

 

[Flavadave4]

 

[aar0s]

I pulled mine apart last winter and gave them a fresh coat of chrome paint but I ran out of butyl tape so i took Darkwriter's advice and used black RTV. worked great, gave that side a flush fit that the butyl taped side dont have.
Bright stopping lights FTW!

 

[Mustang5L5]

 

[Stever89]

Just did this to my 3rd brake light (had to pull it to install a new rear back panel) in my coupe. Huge difference.

 

[MahFiVeOh]

I repainted mine silver when i switched my lenses. It makes quite the difference in lighting. The silver paint on mine was almost completely gone inside the housings.

 

[aar0s]

Just did this to my 3rd brake light (had to pull it to install a new rear back panel) in my coupe. Huge difference.

I was going to on mine but the vert HCTL is kinda tricky to get to, and the stupid cobra wing didnt help any.
I might just pull the lens and try to brush some in the housing.

 

[ID89GT]

Hmm my 80 tail lights mightg have this problem.. but mine is with only one bulb on the driver side, could it be that that one part of the taillight is faded or do you think its a resistance issue. I haven't really investigated it yet haha

 

[aar0s]

it dont take about an hour to get them both apart and sprayed after you get them off the car. Give it a try, if nothing else you can clean the inside of the lenses.