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Originally Posted by apohl17
Alright, so I'm a wee confused. Here I thought the TYC housings were sealed with butyl rubber - now it seems that, because of my inability to open up the housings after multiple cycles of 7 minutes in the oven at 275 and heat gun help. These HAVE to be permasealed like OEM...???
It was SO much nicer to open up the 3rd gen lights with glass lenses...  |
IIRC when I did my retro, I believe I used tyc housings which also wouldn't open, so I just kept baking them and I think after about 12 minutes at 300 or 320 they POPPED open. Popped meaning I was pulling them apart and the entire lens just came right off. it looked like TYC used a cheap seal for the butyl rubber because it maintained 95% of its shape when heated and when I split the housings rather than getting gummy like TRS retro rubber. to clean the TYC seal I just had to sit down with a heat gun, scraper and some pliers and just take hours of my life to pull the cheapo sealant off. It ended up being worth my time to do that rather than buy new oem housings though so I cant complain too much
***disclaimer, I am not suggesting it was a good idea to bake my lights for 12 minutes at 300+ degrees, however it did end up working for me
if you choose to do this I would strongly suggest watching it very closely
