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Title: tail lights
Post by: chardrc on September 07, 2006, 02:49:34 PM

ok i just got a new drivers rear tailight asembly for my yj (sorry jeffy my dad wouldnt let me buy the used ones from you :nothing: ) and the botom part of it has a clear area so it will light up your lisence plate at night but it seams like its a little loose.. not much but enough for me tov worry about water... has any one had this happen. and should i put some silicon around it or jsut let it breath abit... which i dont thingk is the right anser since my last tail light rusted out..

Title: tail lights
Post by: Jeffy on September 07, 2006, 03:10:22 PM

Either you're going to have to seal the light which is probably impossable or else let it breath.  I'd let it breath.  If it's not going to fall out when it won't really matter.

Title: tail lights
Post by: chardrc on September 07, 2006, 05:46:06 PM

sounds like a plan.. now only if i could get the old light box off.... the nuts rusted on and when i took a wrench to them the outer half of the nut cam off leavign me with a round nut.... so ether ill have to do some creative work with a vise grips or cut them off somehow... :2guns:

Title: tail lights
Post by: chardrc on September 08, 2006, 05:27:15 PM

ok um thosese rusty bolts are giving me losts of problerms.. they are totaly rounded so i cant get a visgrip to grip enough to turn it.. ive sprayed them with penitrating fluid mukltiple times... adn i tryed to chisel out the rusty metal plate in the light housing and all of it came out except for the part under / aroubnd the bolts so i still cant get a grip on it.. anyone have any ideas to get rusty bolts out that have half rusted off heads??? :ears:

Title: tail lights
Post by: Jeffy on September 08, 2006, 05:52:57 PM

I don't see how vice-grips won't work.  If anything, drill out the bolt and try not to hit the nut.

Title: tail lights
Post by: chardrc on September 09, 2006, 05:00:12 PM

ok got r dont.. i had to destroy thre rest od the plastic bozx so i could get a vise grips on it enough to unthread it... so then i got new bolts and i painted the rust area from behind the light... the spray painted areas are growing.. its becoming more and more of a jeep...lol... i still have 1 more cot of paint and ill bolt it in and finaly beable to drive my jeep legaly again...

whats next on the list.. fixing the lights on the gages so i dont have to use a flashhlight to see how fast im going at night :shock: .... that is unless i bring it hunting with me next weekend adn find soemthing that needs improvement when oput in the feild..