Restored Parking Lamp housings with NEW pigtails from Mike @ BE&A!

[roadrunninMark]

Folks, check these out...these are my original housings, one of which had a bad pigtail. Since it is almost impossible to find nice ones for a reasonable price, I had mine redone. Mike contacted me and told me he restores them and can add new pigtails. He had special tools made to correctly press and crimp new pigtails on the housings. They came out great! These are not the junky pigtails from ebay either, these are quality, reproduced pieces. They are 70 Cuda style, which is very similar to our B bodies, just have an extra barb for a ground wire (since the Cuda grille is plastic). I am sure this barb can be removed discreetly if you need it to look as close to B body as necessary. Price is excellent too! Enough talking, contact Mike at BE&A if you need yours done. http://www.beaparts.com/

 

[Russ69Runner]

Those sure look nice.

 

[Mark Frey]

They look great. I wish I would know about this six months ago. I had no marker lights on my car. I bought two of them. The one needed a new pigtail I look all over and could find the right one so I bought one more that one cost me seventy five dollars. All good now, but I spent a lot of money and aggravation to get the bulbs in the sockets.

 

[Russ69Runner]

Mark I paid $400 dollars for the set I got. Going to take them apart and clean them and paint them. The lenses are not that cheap like 79 dollars a pair then add gaskets. My friend pete from texas shows how to restore the inside finish for headlights witch for parking lights are the same.

 

[Basketcase]

I thought Mike closed up shop a few years ago?

 

[roadrunninMark]

Wow Russ, I didn't know they are that expensive now. I got a new set of gaskets from Detroit Muscle. I "misplaced my original lens' and hardware in my garage when I took them apart. It has been driving me crazy trying to find them, put them somewhere but still can't find. I may have to order new ones. Getting the lens' are easy, getting the correct hardware might be a challenge. I need the 4 silver screws for the lens', the 4 bolts and j nuts that hold the housings to the bumpers.. oh well, I'll keep looking.

Basket, Mike is doing resto work now too, his website is still up for parts. I've been talking to him a few times and I am going to try and get my other car up to him around end of summer. I am having enough difficulty with one I figure have an expert do the other for me.

 

[Roadcuda]

I thought Mike closed up shop a few years ago?

Dave I've heard somewhere that the website is still up and he's just selling what inventory he has left over.

 

[Basketcase]

he used to have a great car show at his place

 

[Russ69Runner]

Wow Russ, I didn't know they are that expensive now. I got a new set of gaskets from Detroit Muscle. I "misplaced my original lens' and hardware in my garage when I took them apart. It has been driving me crazy trying to find them, put them somewhere but still can't find. I may have to order new ones. Getting the lens' are easy, getting the correct hardware might be a challenge. I need the 4 silver screws for the lens', the 4 bolts and j nuts that hold the housings to the bumpers.. oh well, I'll keep looking.

Basket, Mike is doing resto work now too, his website is still up for parts. I've been talking to him a few times and I am going to try and get my other car up to him around end of summer. I am having enough difficulty with one I figure have an expert do the other for me.

Hey Mark think that you can find the screws and J nuts easy enough. It's not like trying to find the housings. Good luck on it and hope it all works out for ya.

 

[roadrunninMark]

Hi Russ, just found my lenses today, did more searching and they were in a bin of parts under other parts. Still couldn't find my hardware still but have a contact of someone who might have them new.

 

[ACME A12]

Dave I've heard somewhere that the website is still up and he's just selling what inventory he has left over.

You heard that from me when I was looking for new rocker switch covers for Bambi's instrument panel... That was exactly what he told me when I called him looking to buy new switch covers.

 

[Russ69Runner]

Hi Russ, just found my lenses today, did more searching and they were in a bin of parts under other parts. Still couldn't find my hardware still but have a contact of someone who might have them new.

Check with part's Mix. He has a lot of the nuts and bolts as well a screws for B body's.

 

[Roadcuda]

You heard that from me when I was looking for new rocker switch covers for Bambi's instrument panel... That was exactly what he told me when I called him looking to buy new switch covers.

Thanks Ray, I knew it was from a reliable source. Just couldn't remember who it was!

 

[ACME A12]

Thanks Ray, I knew it was from a reliable source.

Now that made me laugh...

 

[Basketcase]

glad I wasn't drinking anything.......

 

[Roadcuda]

Now that made me laugh...

 

[roadrunninMark]

Got the parking lamps completed finally. I had an issue with the bumper bracket nuts in the frame rail stripping out. Of course I didn't know there was a problem until the bumper was on and I attempted to tighten the bolts. None of the 4 would hold tight. So bumper had to come back off and I installed a heli coil in all 4 holes. Bumper went back on and this time all the bolts held. Then I was able to install the parking lamps. And YES, I found where my original lenses were hiding!

 

[Russ69Runner]

All Right. Don't you just hate it when you say to your self I will put the rite here so I can find them. Ya rite. I have so much stuff ordered that I wright on them what they are. Hope I can get all this stuff back like it is suppose to. When you put the helicoil in did you paint where you made the thread's for them. Oh no. I paint every thing that is bare metal. Drill a hole I paint it. Keep the rust monster away. Russ. Oh those look really good buddy.

 

[Russ69Runner]

My friend Pete from SWRNC has a video on restoring head light bucket's. He shows the paint to buy to get the inside to reflect again. Russ.

 

[roadrunninMark]

Hi Russ,
I didn't paint inside the nuts that I drilled. I did install stainless steel heli coils though. They say they are 50% stronger than non stainless...is it true, who knows. I would expect any paint to get "wiped out" once the bolt or coils went in anyway.

I know the feeling, I label stuff as well but when you forget where you put it, the label doesn't help. Maybe i need to put GPS tracking on everything! Never did find the hardware, but it will show up. I did find the hardware for my side markers and tail lights, but I had to buy all new of that 6 months ago because I couldn't find those either!

Do you have a link on the video, I'll take a look.