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Thread: Pet Peeve - Improper use of Euro front signal lenses

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    Quote Originally Posted by 70SATMan View Post
    The dividers are not riveted. The housings have two 'tits' molded in the rear wall. They are then swaged to hold the divider in place. Once done on a euro housing, replacing a divider means figuring out how to attach by a different means (drilling and rivet maybe or epoxy).

    The US housings have those tits in the mold. Adding the divider is easy peezy.
    I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up. So, how do you swage it? Which tool?

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    Quote Originally Posted by blue72s View Post
    I didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up. So, how do you swage it? Which tool?
    That material is pretty soft, all it takes is round over punch. Careful use of a drift gets er done. You could even use the tits as alignment and use JB weld. I'd prep the housing area first though by carefully sanding through the plating to get to the cast zinc.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Longballa View Post
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    so very true!!
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    A classic car owns you but you own your Hot Rod!!
    GREAT quote Scott !!!
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    hmmm isn`t any use of euro specs parts on US specs cars improper(talking about top-notch restos....not hot rod)? i mean like ...yes US specs cars are sometimes very ugly compared to there european silblings..but hey thats how it was back in the days...my.02

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    Quote Originally Posted by Longballa View Post
    A classic car owns you but you own your Hot Rod!!
    so true...

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    Quote Originally Posted by moito View Post
    US specs cars are sometimes very ugly compared to there european silblings..but hey thats how it was back in the days...my.02
    Goes both ways... '74 Carreras in Germany without the ducktail, Euro 911SC and 3.2 cars with the terrible side markers, etc.
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    Yeah, everyone wants what their cars didn't come with. Doesn't matter what cars we are talking about. Here in the US many '79+ VW Mk1 Rabbit (Golf) owners change their fenders and front body panels to convert to the round headlights that everyone else got. And if they are sharp, they sell their old square light parts to someone in Germany, where the square lights are popular simply because they are different.

    Me, I like my H1s because they look better. And I like amber rear signals for safety. (Numerous studies in the mid-70s showed cars with separate amber rear turn signals had a lower rate of being rear-ended.)

    And if I'm going to have both H1s and tri-color rear lenses, I may as well have the matching bi-color fronts. But not if they aren't set up to work properly...
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