HELP! Reinstalling buckets and motors on 64 Headlights

[Andrew P.]

Howdy,

I had the body shop remove the headlight buckets and motors (which I've rebuilt) and now I'm questioning the install. It appears, from D214 in the AIM that the seals are on the outside of the side-mounts in the order of flatwasher-rubber seal-felt seal-bearing-casing-adjustment spacer.

It's clear that the motor pivot goes to the inside. It's also clear that the motor fits onto the pivot and clips on to the offset shaft.

That all said, does the motor not get supported by any other brackets? What is the orientation of the motor (ie which side is which)? Does anyone have some good pix?

I'm going to remove the radiator mount to get my head in there but a few good pix would be worth a thousand AIM pages LoL...

Thanks in advance!

-Drew

[Rich P.]

Re: HELP! Reinstalling buckets and motors on 64 Headlights

Hope these help,

Rich

[John H.]

Re: HELP! Reinstalling buckets and motors on 64 Headlights

That all said, does the motor not get supported by any other brackets? What is the orientation of the motor (ie which side is which)? Does anyone have some good pix?

I'm going to remove the radiator mount to get my head in there but a few good pix would be worth a thousand AIM pages LoL...

Thanks in advance!

-Drew

Drew -

See the attached photo - shows the support brackets to the header bar, ground wires, etc.

[Scott S.]

Re: HELP! Reinstalling buckets and motors on 64 Headlights

Drew -

See the attached photo - shows the support brackets to the header bar, ground wires, etc.

John,

The headlight motor support brackets (UPC 12-A3, Item 39, 3794287 Retainer) look cad or zinc plated in your picture. The NOS examples I have seen are painted black, and so are the examples sold by the vendors, but they may be copying service replacement characteristics.

Do you know what finish these brackets originally had on the production line?

[James W.]

Re: HELP! Reinstalling buckets and motors on 64 Headlights

John,

The headlight motor support brackets (UPC 12-A3, Item 39, 3794287 Retainer) look cad or zinc plated in your picture. The NOS examples I have seen are painted black, and so are the examples sold by the vendors, but they may be copying service replacement characteristics.

Do you know what finish these brackets originally had on the production line?

Andrew and Scott,

Here's a picture taken at the 2008 NCRS National Convention of a low mileage Duntov/Bowtie 1965 showing the headlight motors and mounting brackets. Everyone I've ever seen has been black in color.

Hope this helps.


Happy Holidays,

James West

[Scott S.]

Re: HELP! Reinstalling buckets and motors on 64 Headlights

Andrew and Scott,

Here's a picture taken at the 2008 NCRS National Convention of a low mileage Duntov/Bowtie 1965 showing the headlight motors and mounting brackets. Everyone I've ever seen has been black in color.

Hope this helps.


Happy Holidays,

James West

James, thank you very much for the great picture.

Happy holidays and merry Christmas to all,

Scott

[William L.]

Re: HELP! Reinstalling buckets and motors on 64 Headlights

Andrew and Scott,

Here's a picture taken at the 2008 NCRS National Convention of a low mileage Duntov/Bowtie 1965 showing the headlight motors and mounting brackets. Everyone I've ever seen has been black in color.

Hope this helps.


Happy Holidays,

James West

Great picture James.
I have never seen the ink stamps on the motors before. They appear to be
64 at the top of the circle and 4-65. I would assume that the 4-65 is the date don't know about the 64? Does anybody know for sure??

[John H.]

Re: HELP! Reinstalling buckets and motors on 64 Headlights

Do you know what finish these brackets originally had on the production line?

Scott -

They were dip-primed semi-gloss black.