Reply to "Front Lights"

To answer your question, I needed to replace the motor. The original is frozen, dead, morto.
It is not a rebuildable motore.
I have my two motors from the doors to use, I had just did the Taurus motor replacement.

I installed my "new motor" and found that there is a clearance that you need to maintaine on the gears. The mounting bracket has slots in the bolt holes.

If they are too loose the gear slips and too tight and the motor binds.

Mine is working after about 30 hours of labor on it BUT it won't go all the way up. It stops about 1-1/2" short of the top.

It is not contacting the stop switch, it just stops. It is hell working on the motor because of the location and the access. It is possible that there is a short in the stop switch wire that is grounding out the motor at that position.

The wires are tight and have no slack. For now the lights are staying with the problem at least until it gets warmer. At 10 degrees F outside, it is still hell in the garage too.

Also I have the Vadar rectangular light conversion which complicates working on the motor and gears. It is more then a pain in the rear, it is living hell if you want to know the truth.

Also I prepared the light relays and located the into the front trunk because that's the only place left with any room.
The wires are dangling inder the glove box waiting to be tied into the system.

The PI Forum got me crazy with relays and the car now looks like I am in the relay distributing business. Some are completed, some, well...I think Detomaso never went this far with them simply because there is no place to put them all that is accessable.