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by kid Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:01 pm
This should be a sticky!!!!!!!!
I just received my left and right headlight buckets. Beautiful work except the headlights will have to mount upside down to fit in either bucket. The tangs that register the headlights are backwards.
I cut the slots out and got them to work. LMC Trucks would have taken them back but that would have left me without adjustable headlights.
My buckets were that rusted out.
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by heep70 Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:15 pm
kid wrote: The tangs that register the headlights are backwards.
You are kidding. All that time wasted on making something upside down. You think they will correct future buckets
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by cathynkeith Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:28 pm
It goes deeper, When I bought my headlights from them they would only mount upside down
, so i bought the buckets and they worked fine.
I think maybe Dick Chaney told Geogre Bush to make them that way or maybe it was a page that did not get an IM.
anyway somebody thinks like GM and made the backa$$wards.
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by oldschoolrods Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:54 pm
i bought my buckets right from ford...worked great.
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kid
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by kid Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:30 pm
When did you buy your buckets?
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by 68F250 Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:25 pm
That's wild!!
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by cathynkeith Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:21 am
LMC
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by Tim P. Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:59 pm
didnt the early yrs have a different tab mounts for the headlights
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kid
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by kid Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:10 pm
7in Round lights and 5ers have had the same registration tabs by federal law since the late 40s.
, so i bought the buckets and they worked fine.
