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How to fix a classic car light fitting: light not working? Try this!
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Jan 1, 2025
Simple, but that's the Youtube way. The video shows a #diy how to guide for a basic clean up and servicing of a classic spring operated light fitting suitable for many types of #classiccars
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I'm going to show you how to do
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something that my dad taught me years
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ago there's no point me showing you why
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this doesn't work cuz it's a bve that
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doesn't work so this is how not without
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screwdriver this is how to
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fix Old Spring Light
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fittings these older type light fittings
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that one doesn't work either this is
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ridiculous let's try again with a
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flatted screwdriver see what goes on
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there right these old type light fitting
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are sprung and they've got like a a
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sprung base that pushes onto the bulb
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and creates a
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contact if a car's been sat for a long
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time or if the seals in a light have
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been leaking you can find that those
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contacts get broken cuz they get
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rusted my phone's
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pinging so I always like to get a cloth
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when I'm doing anything like this cuz
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these light lenses these quite fragile
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old things it's been around for a while
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I like to get a cloth and then I can
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just put it in
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there the bulb that I've got an issue
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with
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is this one indicator bulb so let's show
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you how that's looking in
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there crusty and
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minging you can tell that's not going to
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work and make a good connection so what
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we need to do is we need to clean up all
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around the outside of here and that
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little plate in the middle there
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that's what sits
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against the end of the
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bulb behind here you've got this little
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sprung piece here if I push this you see
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it Springs in and out to get this out
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Bend this tab try not to break it and
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then gently push it through the
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light now I'm going to hook this out of
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here
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like that and you've got a
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spring what we need to do is we need to
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clean up the inside of there clean up
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all of the faces that make contact on
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here and then put it all back
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together I've used a piece of Emory on
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the end of a brush but you can get what
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you want poke that in
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there give it a good clean
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up you want to use that Emory to clean
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this little contact up you want to get
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this nice and shiny you don't want any
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corrosion on
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it cuz then you'll get a good electrical
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[Music]
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contact this is a 2-minute job honestly
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the number of times that I see poor
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connections and issues with lights and
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stuff it could be very easily resolved
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this is just general maintenance this is
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what people used to do in the' 60s and
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70s got a nice connection on there now
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so then what you want to do is you want
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to get this which is the little
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insulator backing
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plate hook that
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through so that it's in the middle like
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that then put the spring on the back
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like that so you've got the whole thing
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Zoom you got the whole thing assembled
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like
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that there you go push it through with
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your finger you can see we've got a nice
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spring there see if this will stand
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up no it won't so now what we're going
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to do is we're going to bend that tab
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there back around
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plug that back in I've probably bent
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that a little bit too far actually let's
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go about there there you
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go now it's
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Square then when you put the bulb in the
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bulb will compress the
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spring and that should
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work I hope you found this video
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Illuminating I sure did that's loads
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brighter than it was before and it
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actually works
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