I thought the point of the brick vacuum headlights was that vacuum held them
closed.
So they default to up in the absence of vacuum, hence the annoying winking
headlight when the car sits for awhile if you've got even a tiny vacuum leak.
Seth
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On 4/22/2006 at 4:21 AM High Tech Coatings wrote:
>On 4/21/06 6:18:18 PM, John T. Blair (jblair1948@cox.net) wrote:
>>Rick (HTC) have you played with this at all? It seems to me, we were
>talking
>>about you wanting to use electric actuactors to close the doors on your B.
> I Have not and don't want to think about electric actuators for the
>doors,
>I think they share too many of the problems with the hydraulics, time,
>amperage and twist.
> for the headlights I have thought about it, I have a set of rx7 actuators
>as well as a set from a mid 80's firebird. Once I get some free time I will
>probably adapt the firebird ones in place of the vacuum actuators, looks
>fairly easy, just have to do some math to get the stroke right, I will eave
>the original hinges and just use the electric actuators in place of the
>vacuum ones, If the electric fail they have a knob you can turn to open
>them. I don't like the idea of air headlights, I put over 100K miles on a
>brick back in the 70's and got real good at getting in and out of the car
>with out air assist. I don't like the idea of driving at night without
>headlights. The air system in a bricklin is not 100% reliable so no air on
>safety items like headlights for me.
>Rick
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