I'm having one of those days I guess as everything I touch is going wrong. Where do I start?
Ok, original front park/turn signal light sockets. I can't get any bulbs to go in them! It calls for a 1034 bulb and I have three here but nope, won't go in! It's like the hole is too small. I even tried an 1157 but the same thing. Both left and right are the same and I did clean them up nice so no corrosion. There are no broken pieces of an old bulb in there either. This has me really befuddled.
So I move on to play with some of the shiny things that arrived from Hubbard's. I unpack the new tail light housings and right off I'm surprised that they are a mirror finish! Is that correct? I always thought they were a dull finish like the cove panels (regular Impala). I mean they look like they were plated and polished! You could shave in them. That is until I continued on and found 2 of them look crappy and don't match the other 4. The two bad ones look grainy like they were not polished enough. I have to contact Hubbard's about this.
So... figured I'd put my new lenses into the 4 good ones using new gaskets and that part went fine but for $30 dollars each, it would have been nice if they would have included the speed nuts that attach the housing to the car! I then remembered I have my originals so I dug those out and figured I'd thread them on so I wouldn't lose them and guess what? The go about 1/2 way and the stud starts to spin! So now I have to come up with a fix for those. That's about where I walked away, there was no love for me in the garage tonight.
Please send condolences or cures....
Ok, original front park/turn signal light sockets. I can't get any bulbs to go in them! It calls for a 1034 bulb and I have three here but nope, won't go in! It's like the hole is too small. I even tried an 1157 but the same thing. Both left and right are the same and I did clean them up nice so no corrosion. There are no broken pieces of an old bulb in there either. This has me really befuddled.
So I move on to play with some of the shiny things that arrived from Hubbard's. I unpack the new tail light housings and right off I'm surprised that they are a mirror finish! Is that correct? I always thought they were a dull finish like the cove panels (regular Impala). I mean they look like they were plated and polished! You could shave in them. That is until I continued on and found 2 of them look crappy and don't match the other 4. The two bad ones look grainy like they were not polished enough. I have to contact Hubbard's about this.
So... figured I'd put my new lenses into the 4 good ones using new gaskets and that part went fine but for $30 dollars each, it would have been nice if they would have included the speed nuts that attach the housing to the car! I then remembered I have my originals so I dug those out and figured I'd thread them on so I wouldn't lose them and guess what? The go about 1/2 way and the stud starts to spin! So now I have to come up with a fix for those. That's about where I walked away, there was no love for me in the garage tonight.
Please send condolences or cures....