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Old Mar 12, 2007 | 01:25 PM
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Headlight pops up by itself?

I have a strange issue with my 93 hawk. Never had this issue before. Whenever I turn on my headlights, and then turn then back off, the right headlight goes down, and then it pops back up again? It pops up again with the light out. The other light stays down like its supposed to.

Also, when the battery is dead, and i have to charge it with my generator, the headlight also pops up as its charging.

Any clues/other questions?

I'm pretty stumped.
Old Mar 12, 2007 | 03:49 PM
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Common issue, the stop is broken I quote from bfranker's 4th gen headlight fix website.
6) Here is a strange one… does one of your lights go down and then immediately pop back up? If so, read on That is the most common of this symptom but I suppose it could go up and then immediately back down too! If you read above, I talked about the two stops associated with each light. One stop will stop the light in the UP direction and the other stops the light in the DOWN direction. If you look down in there and at the raise/lower arm on a properly working light, you'll see that the raise/lower arm is making contact with one of these stops. Well, if you are having the problem of your light cycling up and then back down or down then immediately back up when you operate your lights, what has happened is one of these stops has BROKEN OFF!!! Yep, I can nearly guarantee you that if you are reading this and have this problem, you can go out to your car and look down in there at the light which is working properly and see two stops. On the light that is going down then immediately back up, you'll see only one stop To fix this isn't easy but isn't all that hard either. Because these stops are actually molded right into the front headlight support assembly, replacing the stops means replacing this entire piece and that is big $$$. You probably don't want to spend that much and I don't blame ya! Good news is that you can make your own stop What you need to do is drill out the area where the stop used to be then using a bolt and nut or nuts, make your own stop! I have never done this myself and only suggested to people to do it so I don't know what the best size to use is. Size isn't overly important here… just so long as it sticks out there far enough to make contact with the raise/lower arm but not so far as to cause interference with the operation of the light. Also, keep in mind, that if you were having problems with the light jamming in place, that you can use a bigger nut/bolt which will cause the light to stop a little sooner and thus help to prevent the jamming of the light… killing two birds with one stone!
Old Mar 12, 2007 | 04:11 PM
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i didnt read the post before me bc it was long...lol...but i had this same problem on my 96 formula....im almost 100% sure its the plastic stopper snapped off that stops the arm holding the headlight. i just drilled a hole out and put a bolt in there with a lock washer and nut and shave the head of the bolt down for clearance and it works like a charm..maybe i can get some pics on here for you tomorrow to give u an exact idea...
good luck with the fix
Old Mar 12, 2007 | 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by LiENUS
Common issue, the stop is broken I quote from bfranker's 4th gen headlight fix website.
Excellent! Will get to that this weekend. Thanks.
Old Mar 12, 2007 | 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by khojo16
i didnt read the post before me bc it was long...lol...but i had this same problem on my 96 formula....im almost 100% sure its the plastic stopper snapped off that stops the arm holding the headlight. i just drilled a hole out and put a bolt in there with a lock washer and nut and shave the head of the bolt down for clearance and it works like a charm..maybe i can get some pics on here for you tomorrow to give u an exact idea...
good luck with the fix
Yea if you wouldn't mind. I think it would be helpful for everyone to see it thats having this problem.
Old Mar 12, 2007 | 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by khojo16
i didnt read the post before me bc it was long...lol...but i had this same problem on my 96 formula....im almost 100% sure its the plastic stopper snapped off that stops the arm holding the headlight. i just drilled a hole out and put a bolt in there with a lock washer and nut and shave the head of the bolt down for clearance and it works like a charm..maybe i can get some pics on here for you tomorrow to give u an exact idea...
good luck with the fix
Lol please do that for him, thats exactly what my post described. I just did a direct copy and paste from a website.
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