ckrowland

its not very hard to remove your bumper, its only a few bolts

CHRISdrivesACURA

yeah, but what you dont know, is that i live in NE, so every bolt i take off, is either stripped or broken, or just rusted to the point where i cant do anything, believe me i would love to take it off, i just have to check it out first!

97BlackAckCL

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dude it's 4 bolts and a couple screws

GhettoNinja06

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^Yeah, taking it off is easy but puting it back on is the hard part...

ckrowland

and still its not very hard to put it back on

on1wheel01

hmmm i see this in my near future but i wonder how white would look to match my paint

on1wheel01

Ok is it necessary to bake the painted piece after you paint it? I am going to use reg paint no high temp and let it dry over night, thinking of semi gloss.

97BlackAckCL

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I would still bake them

on1wheel01

Okey another ? i may have seen somewhere has anyone taken off the low beam light restriction thing that goes over the bulb? Guess it would make it brighter and act like a high beam. Might make my hids way brighter. Good idea or bad????

97BlackAckCL

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um no

on1wheel01

lol ok short but straight on answer i guess they will stay

on1wheel01

Well i Just finished up the bumper needs to be aligned cuz no one could help me do it. But for now it's fine. Ill take a better shot when it''s sunny out. This makes my hid's look killer

Blazin Si

For those of you that got condensation in the headlamps; how long did it take to show up?

I did mine yesterday with a "quick and dirty" approach. Then it rained all night and most of today and there's no moisture showing up. I'm hoping they are sealed even though I didn't clamp them after using the silicone.

BTW, they look awesome. It really turned the conservative look of the front end and made it more aggressive.

f22vtec

^ cant wait to see it man

97BlackAckCL

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I have condensation in one of my headlights, it took me 4 or so washes before I noticed it, it was at an AZ meet that I first noticed it. Just need to take the bumper off and reseal the shit, need one on my 4runner too, just found out today

Blazin Si

I might post a picture up. I just hate doing that for every little mod I do.

You did your blackhousing and retrofit separately, right?

Mine have seen a couple washes and almost a whole week of driving in the rain. Nothing so far. I just tried sanding my headlights the other day and they turned out terrible. Started with 1000 grit, then 2000 grit, then polishing compound, then Plast-X and even through on a coat of glaze wax since I tried everything else. Do I need to buff these things or what?

97BlackAckCL

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Nope, no blackhouse, the leak in the seal is from the retrofitting, I need to reseal it when I take my bumper off again

I would buff them for sure, just polished, buffed and waxed my 4runner's headlights and they look brand new

Miiike

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how much of the original sealant stuff do you have to get off before you put on new sealant? my light has a ton of the stuff on it and it's taking forever to get off, but i don't want to have the new stuff not hold because the old stuff is on there

Kyanite

I had the housing all painted n was close to finishing up my project so I set them near the fireplace, a few feet from it and my dad accidently stepped on one. There goes my like 6 hours of labor, i was so pissed when it happened lol. Any idea if I can buy just the housing we paint or if I need to just get a new headlight? Help me out!

97BlackAckCL

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I think I have an extra housing, let me check because otherwise you'd have to buy the whole headlight

Kyanite

That'd be sick, just let me know what you'd want for it. I don't think I can send PM's yet, but let me know. Thanks a lot.

Kyanite

It's the passenger side by the way if it matters. If not, i'll ask around or post in black market. Thanks again.

m. detelj

I may have over read this part, but you said to replace the sealant, correct? I have heard that if you just bake the lights again the sealant becomes usable once more and you can just stick them together again.
Check it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5cmsA0Tapo
What do you think?

97BlackAckCL

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clean off that sealant and replace it with new sealant

GhettoNinja06

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You DON'T want your lights to fog and have to end up taking off the bumper and doing it all over again. Just use fresh sealant, it's like $5.

OoAKCL

is there a transparent paint out there that can be used on tha head lamp lense??

97BlackAckCL

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Yeah it's called clear coat

Eband27

lol, this made me laugh

97BlackAckCL

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high temp clear coat to be more exact

97greenclbro

damn, helped alot