Front directional light assembly HELP
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Front directional light assembly HELP
Just for the record i have a diesel motor:
Before I bought my truck it was in an accident. When they put things back together, the left side bumper was installed too high (half inch or less) and I can’t get at the (2) screws out to remove my front directional (blinker) bulb plastic assembly, so I can change a burned out bulb.
So I removed the left battery, and windshield washer reservoir, thinking I could get at it from behind...No such luck. Its has a metal surround protecting it.
Is there away I’m not thinking of that can get at those bulbs?
1. I think if I remove the entire headlight assembly I could maybe get at them, but I have know idea how to remove that.
2. I could loosen bolts and pull that side of the bumper down....but there are many, many, many bolts holding that on.
Thanks Everyone
Before I bought my truck it was in an accident. When they put things back together, the left side bumper was installed too high (half inch or less) and I can’t get at the (2) screws out to remove my front directional (blinker) bulb plastic assembly, so I can change a burned out bulb.
So I removed the left battery, and windshield washer reservoir, thinking I could get at it from behind...No such luck. Its has a metal surround protecting it.
Is there away I’m not thinking of that can get at those bulbs?
1. I think if I remove the entire headlight assembly I could maybe get at them, but I have know idea how to remove that.
2. I could loosen bolts and pull that side of the bumper down....but there are many, many, many bolts holding that on.
Thanks Everyone
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There are two silver clips that hold the headlight adjustment screws to the header panel. You can see them with the hood open, looking down from the top. The clips are tricky to get loose, I've done it with curved needle-nose pliers and/or a curved pick (hose removal tool). Then (if I remember right) you have to completely loosen one of the adjustment screws to release the headlight.
Or, to drop the bumper a bit is just 6 bolts: 2 at each tow hook in the front and 1 on each side of the chassis inside the fender well. but you will need a friend to hold it in place when you tighten it back up.
Or, to drop the bumper a bit is just 6 bolts: 2 at each tow hook in the front and 1 on each side of the chassis inside the fender well. but you will need a friend to hold it in place when you tighten it back up.
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I was thinking the drop the bumper a bit, it seems easier and faster, because you have to take off the bottom signal light to get the head lights out, or so I thought. It will then be a good time to adjust the bumper right.
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I wish I knew how to lower the bumper. 
Instead I removed the headlight assembly, what an engineering feat that is. What the heck are they thinking when they design this stuff....Thank god for J/B-Weld and plastic wire ties, because I needed both to re-fasten the assembly.
As long as I was changing bulbs, I change all the front and rear and 3rd stoplight up high. All the plastic lens were stamped “made in Taiwan”, wonder why we are out of work in the USA.
Thanks for the help guys
Dakrri
Instead I removed the headlight assembly, what an engineering feat that is. What the heck are they thinking when they design this stuff....Thank god for J/B-Weld and plastic wire ties, because I needed both to re-fasten the assembly. As long as I was changing bulbs, I change all the front and rear and 3rd stoplight up high. All the plastic lens were stamped “made in Taiwan”, wonder why we are out of work in the USA.
Thanks for the help guys
Dakrri
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This problem seems to be ocurring more often than not now days.
Maybe not in your case but:
The cab mounts get old and lets the body sink on the mounts toward the frame as the body sinks on the cab mounts the front bumper stays in position raising above the parking light screws.
Sounds crazy but it has happened many times and it makes the parking lights hard if not impossible to get to.
Urbanxx
Maybe not in your case but:
The cab mounts get old and lets the body sink on the mounts toward the frame as the body sinks on the cab mounts the front bumper stays in position raising above the parking light screws.
Sounds crazy but it has happened many times and it makes the parking lights hard if not impossible to get to.
Urbanxx
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