Did my headlight bushings today (C4)

Jul 24, 2005 9 Replies

A piece of cake!! Did both sides in under an hour and a half... It was valuable to use the Photo-instructions off the web, there was one allen head that had to be loosened only to get one of the motor mount bolts out. I would of had to scratch my head on that one for while.



Nothing but powder inside. Can't believe I put it off for so long. :-) LOL


Never heard of anyone having any problems with the headlights on a c4. ;A piece of cake!! Did both sides in under an hour and a half...

RESPECT !!! Not "undieing respect" just plain respect. I've done four C4s and a Pontiac. Never come close to 1.5 hours. Congrats, Bravo Zulu, Well Done !

Paul H.

Never come close to 1.5 hours.

Me either. It takes almost that long just to drink two six packs, let alone take something apart and put it back together. By the way, be careful because it's possible to reassemble incorrectly and the lights open in the control switch closed position and vice versa. Maybe that was the time I had three six packs. Can't remember.

Charlie

LOL ???

4 10mm nuts and 2 bolts and 1 connector on each bucket, had them out in 15 min.. tapped out the roll pin and taped the arm into original position, 3 bolts on the motor cover (after loosening the allen head and removing the other), off came the gear cover, blew out the mess, popped in the pellets, a little spray lith grease on the gear teeth and back together.... what took me the longest was getting the right side gear out of the housing and aligning the buckets with the hood.

Seriously the '94 was a piece of cake.

Paul H. wrote:

and aligning the buckets with the hood.

It must have been the beverages.

Charlie

Naaa..... just Anal Retentive Adrian Monkism! LOLOLOL I had some wood wedges I used to get them just right before tightening the bucket assemblies down!

It must have been the beverages.

That took me so long to do the bushings. :o)

I'll bet there is a relationship between project time and how much beer you drink, but I'm not sure what it is.

Charlie Funk wrote:

what took me the longest was getting the right side gear out of the housing and aligning the buckets with the hood.

It must have been the beverages.Naaa..... just Anal Retentive Adrian Monkism! LOLOLOL I had some wood wedges I used to get them just right before tightening the bucket assemblies down!

Charlie

Whatever that relationship is, I'll bet it isn't linear. I'll also bet there's a correlation between the amount of beer consumed, the number of wrenches dropped and the number of knuckles skinned.

AJM '93 Ruby coupe, 6 sp (now with no coolant leak)

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