DeTomaso Mailing List: March 2000, Message #217

Forest wrote:

>It has been a few years (13) since I did this...[snip]

>>>I just did mine with Rick Moseley a few months ago but already forget some 
of the details! :>)

>but if I remember correctly you
can just unbolt the plate that the motor and limit switches are mounted on and
unmesh it from the gear on the headlight bar. The whole assembly should lift
out. 

>>>As I recall, we wound up wrestling it in/out from the bottom?

>You may have to remove the radiator mounting bolts and push the radiator
ahead a little bit. 

>>>Also, at least one of the limit switches will need to be fully removed, 
and there's virtually zero clearance between the switch and the side of the 
radiator.  The switch is held in place with a pair of teeny tiny metric bolts 
(requiring a 4mm or 3mm wrench?)  Not having any ignition wrenches handy 
(where did they go???) we wound up using needle-nose pliers. :<(

>I'm 800 miles away from my car so I can't go take a quick
look. Warning!! If the lights are part way up they will fall rapidly when the
gears unmesh.

>>>Kirby Shrader's technique is to use an empty beer can as a prop to hold 
the headlight bucket up. :>)  I think we used a section of bicycle innertube 
wedged between the bottom of the headlight bucket and the fender opening...

Mike