Side Markers
08-07-2006, 09:13 AM
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Side Markers
hey. taking my car in for paint tomorrow and was just wondering how to take out the side markers or the lights on the outside of the headlights. i have the 1997 service manual on PDF and it tells me how but its not working. what does pawl stand for?
08-07-2006, 09:27 AM
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The clearance lights?
pop the hood, unscrew the obvious screw, and wiggle the light around a bunch because there's a ball type joint in there that you need to get loose. Try to stick a screw driver in the ball joint and pry it off. I along with a few other org people just broke the ball joint off because it was such a PITA and it doesnt really do anything, the light holds in place perfectly fine with just the screw alone
if you're talkin about the corner lights, just pop off the smaller one with a screw driver, make sure you're careful not to crack it, and then just unscrew the other one and you're done.
pop the hood, unscrew the obvious screw, and wiggle the light around a bunch because there's a ball type joint in there that you need to get loose. Try to stick a screw driver in the ball joint and pry it off. I along with a few other org people just broke the ball joint off because it was such a PITA and it doesnt really do anything, the light holds in place perfectly fine with just the screw alone
if you're talkin about the corner lights, just pop off the smaller one with a screw driver, make sure you're careful not to crack it, and then just unscrew the other one and you're done.
08-07-2006, 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by valvestud
ok thanks alot i just wanted to make sure i wasnt gonna damage anything because ive been pulling on it real hard.
08-07-2006, 11:28 AM
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To pop out the corner lamps next to the headlights without ANY DAMAGE, Unscrew the obvious screw and then pull on the light until you can fit a flat-head screw driver in between the headlight and corner lamp and position the flathead between the ball joint and the housing and twist. WAH-LAH. it falls out in your hands.
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