[rangerrick]

Has anyone done something like this?

Has anyone made a recessed lighting for the GT in th original hole to eliminate the rotating buckets, yet have aerodynamic lights??? I assume this is what is being spoken here ( no pictures to follow this post, posted)?

 

[rangerrick]

Thanks Baz!

That's the problem, too many good ideas at this site and often hard to find even though you know you seen or heard someone speak of what it is your thinking of at the time! Thanks to everyone here an answer is most of the time only a question away!!!

 

[rangerrick]

Thanks Guys!!!

My minds eye was thinking more like the Thumbnail from 72GT, all though Manny's design is nice! Seems to me that the brackets of spring steel plates that tear and or the hardened bolts might have survived longer if made of stainless steel (flexable yete hard) Namba had stated to me hed didn't think a linear actuator could work because of the force required to overcome the open and closed latch mechanisms. seems that the rapid force and momentim is required to rotate the headlight buckets with it's present design, only problem is what happens to the components attached to this weight mass. Seems the only way to keep the rotating lights would be to either go to a rescessed fixed light and or do away with the cable system, latches and install a actuator that rotates the buckets at a slower speed with limit switches for up and down control of the motor. I have the air/conditioning tower down the center consule which also make actuatiocn of the lights a real pain as well!

 

[rangerrick]

Bulb style lights iclosed in plastic.

If I were to do away with the buckets and have a fixed lens out of acrylic I would have been thinking of using the replaceable lamp type bulb like on my 1991 Dodge Dakota, they were also used on the 85-88 Ford Escort and Tempo and therefore should be legal I would think. This would be a permenant fix for the lighting problem. Other than that one would have to go the actuator at the end of the cable input with limit switches. The torgue from unlatching and latching with the momentem of the mass of the buckets seems to eventually tear them apart from what I've seen and read here on the forum. Seems these headlight actuator parts should be listed as the rarest part on a GT, I've never seen any for sale and they seem to have to be repaired from used parts.