Thread: Fixed the infamous eBay spider headlights

Originally Posted by Elrodd384

Yeah the mounting spots cracking on me in the first week and they were aimed all over the place so i took the liberty of doing what they should've done

http://i587.photobucket.com/albums/s...-38-31_303.jpg
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as you can see, the plastic cracked and withered away, and the provided mounting nutplates rusted like crazy

http://i587.photobucket.com/albums/s...0-38-56_46.jpg
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sanded away the cracks and the weak plastic to leave some semi solid mounting spots for my 1/8" aluminum mounting plates

http://i587.photobucket.com/albums/s...-39-57_853.jpg
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some pictures after i fiberglassed in the new mounting plates

http://i587.photobucket.com/albums/s...-06-31_816.jpg
http://i587.photobucket.com/albums/s...-06-38_758.jpg
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a few pics of the holes threaded in, just need to clean em up a bit and paint!
I also took the cutoffs out and filed them down straight, did a dry fit and they almost don't even need aimed! lucky

I'm curious how you reattached the brackets to your vehicle after you did the fix? Also, do you think JB Weld or maybe Epoxy would works as well as fibreglassing?

Originally Posted by txslow6

Why couldn't you remove the factory bracket off your old ones and put them on the spider ones?

For the same reasons that you can use the stock factory brackets on a set of Corvette headlights. They are two completely different products.