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Old 07-18-2011, 11:31 AM   #29
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Re: Retro-Tech- 77 Cheyenne gets retrogrades

Once the hole was enlarged in the bucket, the edges were filed and a coat of satin black made it looks fresh again. This was put aside to dry while I worked in the socket.

As you can see the original socket was too large to correctly fit the new headlight. I located a replacement socket at the local autoparts store. I wasn't really impressed with the quality of the pins or the gauge of wire used. To remedy this, the pins were removed from the socket.

I had planned to source better quality pins for the new socket, but realized I could use the original pins in the new socket. I carefully removed the pins from the old socket and inserted the wires in the new smaller socket. This would allow me to make the install with out cutting the factory wiring.





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