Buddy Craigg made a video of himself taking apart a Gen 1 headlight motor and putting it back together. Its in a 7 part series on youtube. He really explains what he is doing as he is going along. Give him some +'s!

http://www.youtube.com/prof...user=buddycraigg&p=r

I'm going to try and find a file hosting site so I can put it on the web for download. I'll post it here.

if I could give him more than 1 .... I would

Gave you a + for posting this... (he already has my +)

Entertaining video, makes the chore less of a pita...

ugg, Polly said that i reminded her of Matt Frewer

and i talked about "the green sand" too much.

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LOL at safety gear for headlight rebuild

quote Originally posted by Matthew_Fiero: LOL at safety gear for headlight rebuild

"make it fun, keep it safe"

I rated them all 5 star since I can't give ya another plus.

A+ for the DIY headlight repair and A++ for sportin a pony tail

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Led Zeppelin and Fieros go well together.

I just watched the 7 peices. Very well done. I was dreading the teardown of my motors, and I am more aware of how it is all done. Thanks Buddycraigg

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"Don't start smoking, kids, it's bad for you, and it's expensive." You shouldn't be smoking around sensitive electronic components anyway!

I didn't clean up the limit switch when I rebuilt mine, I might have to go back and do that.

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1984 Fiero SE

quick...
every body "favorite" PART 1 so i can go down in history as having the most favorited DIY video today

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I liked the way the cig smoke drifted around from time to time. Glad I quit 5 years ago.

quote Originally posted by RWDPLZ: "Don't start smoking, kids, it's bad for you, and it's expensive." You shouldn't be smoking around sensitive electronic components anyway!

Did I leave that in there? I ment to cut that out and use those as an end points to save room on uploading.

quote Originally posted by josef644: I liked the way the cig smoke drifted around from time to time. Glad I quit 5 years ago.

F you!!!
i would love to quit

I bit the bullet last night and went ahead and rebuild my left motor that just stripped on the other night. Lucky the one from the car I'm stripping was a good motor and had never been apart. The green junk was completely gone.

As I mentioned before, I still like to put some bumpers in the gear to allow some "give" to let the motor startup. A motor does not have maximum torque until it is near to it's running speed.
This one I am trying pieces of rubber fuel line between the gear web and the metal plate. Installed them with the tubing hole facing the web.
Sized them to have about 1/8" or less total play.

So far sounds and works great.

Which motor shafts are you wanting?

quote Originally posted by Dodgerunner: Which motor shafts are you wanting?

for a while, the right side shafts were getting low, but i've been given or bought some cores and i'm all good now.

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is there any way to download the videos to have on my hard drive? or are they on a cd i can purchase?

You so need to sell autographed copies on DVD
I gave you stars an +’s all around

buddycraig, alot of guys at work quit smoking easily using chantix.

http://www.chantix.com/cont...Branded_Homepage.jsp

quote Originally posted by ohioindy: You so need to sell autographed copies on DVD I gave you stars an +’s all around

it's funny, but ly41181 has been contacted about selling DVDs already.
i told him to go for it.
i know most of the in's and out's of the first gen systems, but i dont really want to make money off of them.

so ly41181 should be selling the DVD for pretty cheap

and if i ever decide to buy a bigger memory card for my camera i might redo it so it's a better quality.

PS... i've still got the digital tape.
what does ly41181 need to put it in his computer without it going to a VHS tape first?.
i could send him my camera, but i'd be screwed without it.

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quote Originally posted by p8ntman442: buddycraig, alot of guys at work quit smoking easily using chantix. http://www.chantix.com/cont...Branded_Homepage.jsp

i didn't see any
i'm just going to stop typing now.

If it makes you feel better...
I went out and burned one between parts 4 and 5

quote Originally posted by Matthew_Fiero: LOL at safety gear for headlight rebuild

But he's missing the safety glasses, safety goggles over the glasses and finally a face shield! You never know a headlight motor could EXPLODE at any moment! :-)

Then you have people like me that attempt to sandblast a part with none of the above, just turn your head and close the eyes. and say over and over "OW! OW! OW! OW!"

quote Originally posted by timgray: But he's missing the safety glasses, safety goggles over the glasses and finally a face shield! You never know a headlight motor could EXPLODE at any moment! :-) Then you have people like me that attempt to sandblast a part with none of the above, just turn your head and close the eyes. and say over and over "OW! OW! OW! OW!"

LOOOL!!!!
I started sandblasting that way.. squinting and taking the pain. Then the rest of the day getting sand bits out of the corner of my eyes.

I ended up getting a faceshield, 10 replacement visors, gloves and earmuffs..oh and an old jean jacket from 5 years ago and it was quite comfortable after that

never mind

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