So i've got a headlight bucket to replace, but i can't get it off! 10mm bolt turns, and screw turns with it, i'm close to gwetting the bolt cutters out, any advice? its really hard to work in that small a space.

Hi:

I agree with the previous post: the lamp needs to come off so you can go to town on the hex cap end of those spinning bolts--using bolt cutters, hack saws, vise grips, dynamite, whatever. If you can't gently pop out the lamp from the clips by pulling, i suggest that you just remove (unscrew) the two beam adjusting screws from behind--the retaining clips are just on the ends of them. They are plastic capped and designed to be turned by hand. Then the lamp will be free.

My advice is for when you put the new buckets in. I popped the pre-installed hex nuts out of their stupid little hex wells and replaced them with longer bolts fitted with a large enough washer to keep the hex cap from fitting back in that stupid little well. So, if i ever have to replace this idiotic part again, the hex cap can be held static while i rachet off the bolt.

There is a special place in hell for the person who engineered this. I just know it.

Regards

It's not the best thing for the light, but if you pull out on it carefully, the light is only held into the backing plate by 3 clips. Take out the grille and give it a peek. If you weasel a long screwdriver in there, you can actually pop the clips off with no damage to anything. Giving it a hearty tug from each different mounting point will get it off too. Then you don't even have to worry about that backing plate. My backing plates are both rusted on wiht freely spinning bolts...And I just replaced a bucket a few days ago this way. Hope this helps....it could save you some time! good luck
Nate Gundy

I had the same problem, the bolts were so rusty that it broke the head right out of the plastic in the bucket. I used a dremel (sp?) to cut the nut off and slid the bolt out. You can pick up a bolt at a local hardware store and feed it through the back of the bucket, that way you can hold the bolt on the backside while installing the nut. It was a tight fit, but not impossible. Hope this helps.

Pete 89' 244 240K+