Help John with fbird problem

darkoverlift
06-22-2004, 08:53 PM
John has a headlight motor that doesn't work, there is power getting to it. When he turns his headlights on the one motor works fine, the other makes no noise and doesn't work. Is there anyway to check the ground of the motor that is not working. He wants to check all options before having to buy a new headlight motor. Send all suggestions to Sarkj@ocps.net

MustangEater82
06-23-2004, 05:39 AM
Is there a power lead wire? for the window motor? Can he just jump a wire from the batt to the power of the motor and see if it opens it up? Do you guys have a test light you could also just see if the motor is getting power.

I don't know much about the flip up headlights...

Is there a relayor fuse for each motor?

icecoldWS6
06-23-2004, 09:29 AM
If it makes a terrible noise while its trying to do open, chances are the gear is stripped.

Predatorbird
06-23-2004, 01:50 PM
if the gears are stripped you can use the other side of the gear. mine were like that and i manually spun the gear to use the other side and they have been working fine. the motor only uses 180 degrees of the gear, while the other 180 doesn't get touched. you can rotate it to use the "new" section on the gear and it will work fine.

http://www.bfranker.badz28.com/headlightfix/index.htm

after checking out this page i found out brent makes replacement gears. this will be a permanent fix to the problem.

MustangEater82
06-23-2004, 02:07 PM
I was thining stripped gears too but he said it makes no noise, woudln't you hear the motor run just not pop the light up?

darkoverlift
06-23-2004, 04:38 PM
Yes he hears no noise though the test light says it is good.

MustangEater82
06-23-2004, 05:54 PM
can the motor be easily removed? and coudl you unhook it and connect it to the harness on the opposite side?