Headlight bushing kits and gears everywhere, but shafts?
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 7:49 pm
Me again...
Looks like my car's last owner decided to ghetto-rig a fix for the headlight motor bushings wearing out, which involved a single chopped-up metal nut lodged between the metal shaft/hub and nylon gear. I hate idiots. So now I know why the headlight only worked right some of the time. Meanwhile I'm stuck having to get out of my car to "assist" the headlight in opening up most of the time. And it's really getting annoying.
The shaft/hub - not the gear - has a whole lobe chunked up and definitely wouldn't work with just a simple drop-in bushing replacement. I need a whole new shaft but I don't know where to get it. I Googled for it a hundred different ways and all I get are references of how to take apart the motors and replace the bushings.
Any ideas on where to get a new "hub"? Short of replacing the whole headlight motor assembly, which might be my next stop...
Looks like my car's last owner decided to ghetto-rig a fix for the headlight motor bushings wearing out, which involved a single chopped-up metal nut lodged between the metal shaft/hub and nylon gear. I hate idiots. So now I know why the headlight only worked right some of the time. Meanwhile I'm stuck having to get out of my car to "assist" the headlight in opening up most of the time. And it's really getting annoying.
The shaft/hub - not the gear - has a whole lobe chunked up and definitely wouldn't work with just a simple drop-in bushing replacement. I need a whole new shaft but I don't know where to get it. I Googled for it a hundred different ways and all I get are references of how to take apart the motors and replace the bushings.
Any ideas on where to get a new "hub"? Short of replacing the whole headlight motor assembly, which might be my next stop...