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    Man, TYC headlights are a ***** to open. They didn't use butyl tape, it's like a black adhesive liquid. I melt it with the heat gun and it immediately oozes back together around my flat head and reseals. I broke all the tabs and scratched the hell out of the lens around the seal.

    5 hours of work on ONE headlight, and I probably won't get it open until after another half hour.
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    Quote Originally Posted by laferri2 View Post
    Man, TYC headlights are a ***** to open. They didn't use butyl tape, it's like a black adhesive liquid. I melt it with the heat gun and it immediately oozes back together around my flat head and reseals. I broke all the tabs and scratched the hell out of the lens around the seal.

    5 hours of work on ONE headlight, and I probably won't get it open until after another half hour.
    First of you shouldn't be using a heat gun to seperate lenses from capsules. Sure it works but by the time you get one area melted enough to seperate and move on the area you just worked on like you've already said adheres itself back together. Put them in the oven the whole lense sealant melts uniformly, just my opinion though you can do whatever you want but it takes me about 15 minutes max to peel lenses using my method.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cleangtp View Post
    First of you shouldn't be using a heat gun to seperate lenses from capsules. Sure it works but by the time you get one area melted enough to seperate and move on the area you just worked on like you've already said adheres itself back together. Put them in the oven the whole lense sealant melts uniformly, just my opinion though you can do whatever you want but it takes me about 15 minutes max to peel lenses using my method.
    I can't use my oven; I have a bird and the fumes would likely kill it. My BBQ runs way too hot and would melt it, so I'm kind of stuck.

    On the plus side, the next lens should only take maybe a third of the time; I was attempting to use the heat gun to melt a whole side at once, which wasn't working. I started melting and prying five inch sections and holding until they cooled and it went much faster. I spent two hours on the first lens allowing the glue to melt and reseal and it basically turned into a rock hard gloppy mess.

    I'm not so worried about the broken tabs as I'm going to use butyl tap and run a bead of adhesive sealant along the lens when I'm done, which should make it watertight and well sealed.
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