Fitting headlight tips please
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There is a black neoprene seal that goes around the glass lens but you can fit it without the seal, just use black Sikaflex EBT from Screwfix. Position the glass using the outer shroud so that it just makes contact all the way round. Fitting the shroud also requires a blob of Sikaflex to afix the top to the wing
I used sikaflex 291 - there are a few old threads about headlamps, heres one that i found useful: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Use enough mastic to fill any voids so as to not allow water to penetrate past the lense.
Originally I think the rubber gasket helped seal lense against the body which is often not very uniform and then mastic applied.
It’s the same process without gasket.
I simply pushed lense upto aperture so it found its natural place then applied upvc tape to hold it to body then filled the gap around lense and body with mastic. When dry remove tape then fill in the gaps.
You will be creating a bed of mastic for lense to sit on basically.
Classic Chim said:
Use enough mastic to fill any voids so as to not allow water to penetrate past the lense.
Originally I think the rubber gasket helped seal lense against the body which is often not very uniform and then mastic applied.
It’s the same process without gasket.
I simply pushed lense upto aperture so it found its natural place then applied upvc tape to hold it to body then filled the gap around lense and body with mastic. When dry remove tape then fill in the gaps.
You will be creating a bed of mastic for lense to sit on basically.
Originally I think the rubber gasket helped seal lense against the body which is often not very uniform and then mastic applied.
It’s the same process without gasket.
I simply pushed lense upto aperture so it found its natural place then applied upvc tape to hold it to body then filled the gap around lense and body with mastic. When dry remove tape then fill in the gaps.
You will be creating a bed of mastic for lense to sit on basically.
bobfather said:
There is a black neoprene seal that goes around the glass lens but you can fit it without the seal, just use black Sikaflex EBT from Screwfix. Position the glass using the outer shroud so that it just makes contact all the way round. Fitting the shroud also requires a blob of Sikaflex to afix the top to the wing
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