Taillight housing

[thaddybob]

Any ideas on how to get the bottom screws out on the taillight housings that have been mutilated by the po? There isnt even heads left on them.

Thanx much fellas.

 

[8T6K5]

No heads? Is the housing still on? Can you score them and use flathead? Otherwise carefully drill them out...

 

[89Suburban]

Factory are stainless Torx heads aren't they? Maybe an easy out might grab in there?

 

[MrMarty51]

Probably not screwed up by PO but rather the heads are rusted off.
Originally those were phillips heads screws.
I hace used various tools and chipped/chisesled away until the head was completelu gone,then,pulled the tail light off of what was lefdt of the screws shank,got a hold of the shank with a vicegrip and unscrewed them.
Worked for me on several that I have picked out of the scrap yards.

 

[thaddybob]

Thats what i started to try to do was chip the last of what was left of the heads but didnt want to make a mess of it if it broke. The top 2 hold it in just fine but have a set of new housings and lenes from a buddy that I was going to put in. There isnt enough left of the heads to try much.

 

[MrMarty51]

Chip away.they will slide right oft if enouhg of the heads is gone,if You got different ones and just trying to salvager the old,well,sometimes a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do an that would be to break the old houseing then remove the screw from the clipenheimer.

 

[Driver4r]

Originally those were phillips heads screws.

87 Would have been Torx.

Im not exactly sue when they started to convert to them tho. 1979?

 

[Stroked]

My 84 has torx head screws


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[Driver4r]

My 84 has torx head screws.

Pretty sure our 79 had torx.

 

[89Suburban]

The same size Torx bit fits the headlight adjusters too.

 

[MrMarty51]

I have taken some apart that had torx on the lens covers for screws but they had phillips holding the backing to the body,thems the rusting out ones.

 

[Stroked]

I have taken some apart that had torx on the lens covers for screws but they had phillips holding the backing to the body,thems the rusting out ones.

Ohh yea...now that you mention it, the ones holding the housing to the bed were in fact phillips head screws. The lens to housing screws were the torx. I just had one apart last Sunday, you'd think I could remember that. Lol.


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[Driver4r]

I have taken some apart that had torx on the lens covers for screws but they had phillips holding the backing to the body,thems the rusting out ones.

Ahhhh, i see. I thought we were talking about lens's.

 

[MrMarty51]

 

[89Suburban]