[DeTomaso] headlight motor

[Julian Kift]

Jack,

 

In my experience a Lucas 14W wiper motor is a straight bolt on to the Pantera, they can be found in some Jaguar models and more commonly in Leyland vehicles (Original Mini, Morris etc.). Failure as you say is nearly always due to the plastic gear splitting, which is replaceable, but hard to find as a replacemnt part. I sourced about 10 of the plastic gears some time ago and have maybe 8 left. I sell them for $15 inclusive of mailing in continetal US. That compares favorably to GBP15 out of the UK plus postage.

 

On the headlight motor, yes the gearboxes are the same, however, I can assure you my headlight motor is not the same as the window motors, it is a much larger and heavier duty unit.

 

One headlight lift mod reported on the PI forum used an electrical piston actuator to raise the headlights. It seemed a good idea to me and the bushed mounting had potential to minimze the shake the headlights often experience due to the poor motor gear/lift mechanism intermesh.

 

Julian
 
> From: JDeRyke at aol.com
> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 01:46:48 -0400
> To: LEVITT1946 at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] headlight motor
> 
> In a message dated 7/8/09 5:38:35 PM, LEVITT1946 at aol.com writes:
> 
> > I have been told that an otc jaguar motor will fit into the pantera 
> > .Does anyone know what year jag or part # this headlight motor is ?
> > 
> I suspect confusion in translation somewhere. A Jaguar WIPER motor will 
> indeed work as a Pantera WIPER motor, but even that requires some minor 
> adaption (the Jag motor is a 3-wire while the Pantera is a 2-wire). But in my 
> experience, wiper motors very rarely fail.
> To your problem: IMHO, the stock Pantera headlight motor (same as the 
> window lift motors) truely isn't worth much fooling around with, unless the 
> trouble is simply the plastic gear splitting. A Taurus window lift motor assembly 
> will work better, faster and is cheaper, for headlights and window lifting. 
> Your POCA newsletter published such an adaption recently by Bill Taylor, 
> and there are others who have written of such adaptions on certain web pages. 
> Details of your problem? Cheers- J Deryke

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