[DeTomaso] Headlights

[Boyd Casey]

Jack,
I believe Pantera place has a technical article on how to eliminate the
jiggling of the headlights. One thing you should definitely do is replace
the plastic drive gear that opens the headlights with a brass one when the
plastic gear breaks ( and it will) you won't be able to manually crank open
the lights) the same thing goes for the windows ( as well as the same brass
gear) .I would also strongly recommend   Pantera electronics headlight
controller. It does away with the electromechanical relays and replaces
them with a circuit board and micro processors. It also provides additional
benefits that you can read about on their web site
http://www.pantera-electronics.com/
Good luck.
Boyd

On Tuesday, September 3, 2013, John Donahue wrote:

> All the info given to me so far is great, thanks to all. In the "headlight
>  restoration" project, the rubber grommets  (three wire) in the headlight
> buckets are obviously original - one barely exists - and the white
> (yellowish) headlight plugs are obviously original. I would love to buy a
> pre-assembled set of buckets with new grommets and connectors rather than
> start splicing. I notice the 3 wires go back to a connector plug off the
> harness. Buying the whole assembly would be nice (desirable). Rather than
> going down the list of vendors published in the newsletter, anyone "been
> there-done that"?
>
> On Aug 31, 2013, at 7:56 AM, Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Some info on the circuit is attached if it is any help.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > From: Jack Donahue <demongusta at me.com <javascript:;>>
> > To: detomaso at poca.com <javascript:;>
> > Cc: detomaso at poca.com <javascript:;>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 11:56 AM
> > Subject: [DeTomaso] Headlights
> >
> > Hey All:
> > My headlight situation is 40 years old, so I thought I would tackle the
> fact that a high beam on the passenger side is not working, and the same
> side has a little "jiggle" in it going down the road. Unless they are now
> making road signs that flicker when Panteras drive by. I also noticed that
> the word "motorcycle" is stamped on the glass of the headlight. My first
> quest was to make the light stay UP without illuminating, which I did with
> the ignition/headlight switch. For my own piece of mind, I would like to
> "rebuild" the entire system - greasing gears, etc. but don't want to do a
> "trial-and-error" thing when all you gurus out there can shed some light
> (no pun..) on me doing this. I had a heck of a time utilizing the manual
> knob to raise the lights until I played around enough with the
> ignition/headlight combo to keep them up, but not lit.
> > All/any help would be appreciated.
> > Jack
> > #4348
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