I got a pair of molded rubber quarter-turn light sockets at Canadian
Tire. They fit the push-in bulbs and have two 6" wire leads coming out
the back. I drilled the hole in the light fixture out to 11/16 (I think)
and then filed two rectangular cutouts to suit the quarter-turn latch
mechanism.
Because this wiped out the rather iffy grounding arrangement used by
Lucas (is there any other?) I used a hose clamp to clamp a piece of 16
gauge wire to the cylindrical turn signal side of the light housing. I
covered it with RTV after snugging things up, to hopefully keep stuff
from corroding. Then I took the new ground wire, one of the two wires
coming from the fixture, and the ground lead for the headlight, put ring
lugs on them all, and attached them to the body seam that runs just
behind the outboard end of the grille opening.
http://www.fastenal.com/web/products/detail.ex?sku=0715803
This is pretty similar to the socket I used... It comes with four tabs
on the socket, and I didn't want to file four slots, so I cut off the
two tabs (180 degrees apart) that didn't have the stops on the end.
Theo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net
> [mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of BEAU2EVE@aol.com
> Sent: April 16, 2009 3:15 PM
> To: tigers@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Tigers] Turning lamps
>
> I had the same problem with my lamps, my solution was to go
> to the salvage yard and find a VW rabbit . The side marker
> lights on this car are rubber push in assemblies. Drill out
> the lights on the Tiger to fit these units and your problem
> is solved. Caution , use a smaller drill than you need and
> file the hole to fit the rubber plug assembly. They use the
> same light bulbs as the original socket. The little push in units.
>
>
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