69 Super Bee tail light restoral

[69f6bee]

Has anyone had their 69 coronet tail lights restored or restored them on their own ? I'm in process of getting my Super Bee redone and was wondering if anybody has restored these. Pictures would be great. Thanks

 

[Big D A12]

You can do it on your own, but it does take a bit of effort. The chrome bezel is attached to the lense by a wedging process. You have to carefully grind away the separated (wedged) stud on the bezel behind the lense to get it off. If you do not do this, you will breack the lense just prying on the bezel.

I used a Dremel tool with an 1/8" grout removal bit to reach into the lense cavities to get to the anchor point. It is not pretty, but gets the job done without breaking the lense. Be patient, it will jump around. Just have a steady hand and it will remove the wedged over areas.

I found several lenses that were in good shape and did nothing more than clean them up. You can see the marks in the lense from the machine that wedged over the bezel tabs to anchor them.

The chrome bezels on the other hand needed to be sent out. Brace yourself, these are expensive. Usually in the $225 each range to have a chrome shop take care of them.

I used a panel bond to reinstall the bezels to the lense. I placed them face down with some weight on them and placed a reasonable amount on the area where the bezel stud used to be on the back side of the lense. Don't get to carried away with the panel bond, too much will ooze out around the bezel where you do not want it.

Here is a link from the A12 site with more pictures and commentary.

http://a12mopar.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1395748538

Hope this helps.

D

 

[69f6bee]

It helps a bunch and thanks for the link to the A12 site. I have this bookmarked and I also have an extra set of junk tail lights to practice on. Thanks again.