Headlight motor - anyone fiddled with these?

[dhurlston]

My left headlight won't go up - the motor tries but doesn't make it.
I have had the assembly apart expecting to find a stripped gear, but everything looks OK, except I am not sure what it is supposed to look like.

Has anyone serviced one of these things?

Dave
'91 Esprit

[lotusman]

In order to see your problem, you need to remove the metal axle from the plastic gear. You will see much disintegrated plastic. To repair, make three of what I call, "pucks" of about 12 mm diameter. I used high density polyethylene but a ryton or kynar polymer would be better, however, tougher to form. Put them in the voids between the two gears, you can see how the triangles fit together, and reinstall. I have done them on both lights now. and work fine.