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MattTheBat83

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the bulb of my headlight fell out and melted the area its supposed to lock into. autozone said its like $130 for just the headlight anyone have any ideas for a cheap fix?
 

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http://www.latemodelrestoration.com/products.aspx?category=M28793HL

But for about $130 you can get all 6 pieces from them.
 
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If it's still the stock bucket you can get one off e-bay pretty cheap.
 

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yeah ebay or the bone yard
 
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my headlight fell out one time but I caught it in time to where I could cut the bad part off of it with a knife and I refit the headlight. mine were 210 dollars so I made it work. I have the ultraclear headlights. I would get those if you burned your old ones too far
 
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try www.blueovalindustries.com they have some nice headlamp kits at a decent price as does www.mcrparts.com
 

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Be careful of what you buy...I bought some cheap repo hedaghts once. It took about 7 days to get the lenses, 20 minutes per side to install all 3 lenses and forever to try to align them.

I drove around for several days with the driver’s side headlight scanning the upper branches of trees for squirrels, owls and UFO’s. The headlight lens had extra slack between the retaining clip and the screw head which allowed the lens to shift around. Fixed that with some small washers between the screw heads and the bottom of the mounting hole. I would recommend that you find 2 extra adjustment screws per side - they are the ones with the hex ends on the end of the screw where it sticks through the mounting plate. That may help the alignment problems, as the stock setup only allows adjustment with 2 screws, and is hard to adjust in and down at the same time.
 
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