blueovalnotch65

When I started mine, I had the oven at 250 and I wasn't getting much separation. I ended up doing some research and bumped the temp up to 300. It still took a bit to get the lights apart at 300 but it was a lot easier than 250. It didnt distort any of the plastic except of course where i pried which was no big deal.

When you get the light apart, remove the chrome trim shell out of the front half of the housing. I sanded it using a grey steel wool sanding pad that I picked up from the paint store. I think it was about the same 'grit' as a 800 grit paper.. maybe 1000? I used lots of water while sanding it so it would be cleaner and not gouge. Not sure. but it didn't leave any scoring.
I pretty much sanded everything on the front side that I knew would be showing.
After I was done sanding, I cleaned and dried everything really well then sprayed on some Adhesive Promoter so the paint would stick.
Then I sprayed the Paint.
Easy Peasy

What I used:

This is mid sanding:

After painted:

backwoodskid

Gonna try this on my next day off!! Unless somebody is tired of theirs and wants to sell me them haha

F-amous150

would love to see this done but with red or white or blue instead of black. I would try it but sold my stock headlights already so dont know if its a good idea lol

tallydawg

thanks blueovalnotch.... but

I decided to start this task on Sunday. Four hours later I was able to get the thing open. I painted the parts and tried to put it back together but it didn't seal well.

That being said, I'm not going to do the other light. So it looks like someone gave the right side of my truck a black eye right now.

Not to say that the headlight doesn't look good but be prepared for a lot of frustration.

blueovalnotch65

tallydawg - sorry to hear that. I used weatherstrip adhesive (GM dealership bought) to put everything back together. It worked very well but was messier than RTV.

Did you take the time to scrape all the old sealant out of the grove? its gotta be nice n clean. I scraped everything out and then took a small dremel wheel back in there and roughed everything up to insure that i had good adhesion.

tallydawg

I'm just not having much luck with mods lately. My OBDII dongle doesn't work either.

I removed as much as possible but the bottom didn't want to seal at all. So I'll save up the $ for HD's or hope I win the contest by Tasca.

Btw I _really_ like your lights behind the grill. I imagine the output of those is something else.

Orangetang

I feel your pain. My first headlight needed copious amounts of silicone to seal up. I'm in Prince Rupert bc with the truck right now. If they are going to leak anywhere, its going to be here and now. The tasca price on HD heads is great, but if you like to black projectors, you can get em for less.

blueovalnotch65

Thanks. They are awesome. I converted them to 55w HID's too

tallydawg

Update

Well this past weekend the wife had to work. And with my lack of luck I figured I won't win the Tasca contest. So that being said I decided to tackle the other head light. It was back in, painted, and everything in 2 hours.

Here is what I learned this time around:

- don't be scared to up the temperature on the oven. The first time around I started at 250 and proceeded up to 275. This time I started out at 300 @ 10 minutes.

- if you do up it... be warned. The headlight will be HOT. Wear pants and gloves if you have them.

- be sure to move the oven rack to the lowest point without the headlight touching the heat element.

- what helped out so much this time was that I was able to get a small flat head screwdriver and "chisel" my way down the seal. To do this you may need a hammer.

BL4CKOUT

Okay so after much thinking and getting sick of my black projector headlights I I decided to tackle this I guess you could say challenging mod.

From my personal experience don't e scared of all these guys saying that it is an impossible mod that isn't worth it etc. I have never ever done anything like this and it took me a little over 3 hours to knock it out.

Step one, I heated the oven up to 300 degrees and had the rack sitting about 4 inches from the element. You have to be patient and leave it in there the full 10 minutes! Don't worry it will not melt!

Be careful when you remove as it will be hot I used gloves on both hands, I began with 2 flat head screwdrivers on the backside corner where the side amber lights are. Once you pop it up outside the silicone enough to fit a hand it there I just ripped them apart which was very easy and didn't break anything because all my silicone was melted.

Once I had them apart it was easy peasy! Took about 20 min for the first like and 5 for the second once I was educated.

After prime and paint it was a success. And I appreciate all precious instructions as they helped tremendously!