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Disassembling Old Tail Lights

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What happens here

Josh uses a drill to remove the three bolts holding the passenger-side tail light in place. Upon removal, he reveals the corroded and broken plastic components of the old light. He notes that the wiring connects to a plug deep inside the fender, which he plans to utilize with the new LED lights despite the new lights having a different mounting system (studs instead of screws). He then removes the driver-side tail light, which is also severely damaged and appears to have been glued multiple times.

Goal: The old, damaged tail light assemblies are removed from the Jeep's rear.

Tools and materials

  • Cordless Drill
  • Milwaukee Impact Driver
  • Goof Off

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without jamming some tunes this is a mobile work cart by the way from tighten attachments there'll be a coupon code for tighten attachments shop equipment down there in the video description I'll also post a link to this cart very very handy little cart we're gonna get in here see how nasty we are oh yeah check this out crusty crusty so this stuff is just falling apart it's just old and it just needs refreshing that's what we're doing a little bit of refresh and a little bit of function also this is the passenger side light basically that's part of the tail light that's tail light and that's reverse light this one flashes for the turn signal and we have absolutely no power to the reverse light this is just held in with three little bolts now what we want to do when I pull this out catch all my bolts here and we have deep down in here and the doldrums of the fender is a plug down in here see if I can get that thing all the way up maybe so there's a plug deep down in here and we're gonna cut the wires right here and utilize the original factory plug back here now the new lights are a little bit different these have a screw that goes right into the fender now that's not how the new lights are set up the new lights actually have studs in them that mount up to the fender now the boat holes all mount up all three of them do but the studs we're gonna require a little bit of drilling to open these holes up or some creative nut and bolt work right here now this is the driver's side it is just yucky it's been glued together it looks like two or three times it's just falling apart this is a definite need the LEDs are really gonna set this off and I've already started cleaning off and had a bunch of stickers like surfer dude stickers and stuff on there they

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