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Old 06-01-2016, 05:52 PM
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A friend has a pair of FX4/Harley tail lights but the passenger outer lense has a crack in it. He's replaced them and offered them to me dirt cheap, but I want to fix the lense issue. I have my factory chrome tail lights on my truck and thought about taking both them apart and basically making one good one out of the two. Put the lense on my chrome lights on the housing of the FX4 blacked out lights. Any reason this wouldn't work? Any reason not to do it?

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A friend has a pair of FX4/Harley tail lights but the passenger outer lense has a crack in it. He's replaced them and offered them to me dirt cheap, but I want to fix the lense issue. I have my factory chrome tail lights on my truck and thought about taking both them apart and basically making one good one out of the two. Put the lense on my chrome lights on the housing of the FX4 blacked out lights. Any reason this wouldn't work? Any reason not to do it?

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Don't pay too much, a new set of Fx tails are $120 and you can sell your chrome ones for $60 - $80.

I read taking apart the tails is much more difficult. Basically had to use a Drem and cut the back off completely.
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+1 I have not seen many have good success trying to pull the tails apart. They are basically super glued together.
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Its called a "sonic weld". The lens and housing are heated and pressed together, melting the 2 into 1. As stated, impossible to separate unless you dremel or use a cutoff wheel.
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You wont find just a lense. Like others have stated, you need to dremel them apart, so there is no lense available seperately.



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