Resealing headlight

[logan]

So I pulled my headlight apart to clean the inside lens and reseal it. But on the side some of the reflective silver stuff is gone. Should I replace this with something? If so what?


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[bravekozak]

Buy a new headlight assembly. Forget about resealing.

E8BZ-13008-A

[logan]

Could not access the site from my phone. How much do they run on there?


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[bravekozak]

Don't know. Never bought one. Phone Green Sales. (513) 294-8385. E8BZ-13008-A. Good luck.

[MasterTec]

I bought one through amazon a few years back. It's the "DEPO" brand and came complete with a glass lens, steel bracket and even a bulb. It was a bit pricey however.. about $100.

Ahh.. here it is right here: http://www.amazon.com/Depo-331-1115L.../dp/B004I18VKI

I didn't have much of a choice. My dad had hit a deer and I had to do some considerable tweaking to the radiator support, the hood, and the LF fender to get that puppy in!

[lessersivad]

So I pulled my headlight apart to clean the inside lens and reseal it. But on the side some of the reflective silver stuff is gone. Should I replace this with something? If so what?


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I had the same issue on my '93. I ended up using aluminum foil tape and resealing the lense with clear silicone.

That was at least 2 years ago and they are still holding up fine.

Now granted, using the "foil" to repair the reflective surface isn't going to completely restore it to new condition.

There is a bit of light diffusion caused by the slight wrinkling of the foil when applied along with the "not quite chrome" finish of the tape, but over all I've been happy with the results.


The worse case is you try it and don't like it.

[bravekozak]

The plastic is vacuum metallized by companies like one that I used to work for in Lansing, Illinois called Bee Chemical. Their vacuum chamber was about 35 feet across and 10 foot high. It used to take a couple of hours to pump out all of the air before they heated the metal elements up so that the metal ions landed on the parts in the middle of the rack. They used to do all the Ford logos as well, in big rolls. They used to be owned my Morton-Thiokol (the Morton of Morton Salt). They got bought out by a Japanese company. Everything went south after their Space shuttle boosters blew up that day. They manufactured the solid propellant and had a lot of military contracts as well.