How to clear/paint your corner lights! **PICS**

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BlizzardX23

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Remove Corner Lights from truck

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Pre-Heat oven to 250 degrees

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Place empty Corner Lights (NO Bulbs) into over for 15 minutes

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Remove Corner Lights from oven and use a razor to cut the silicone as gently prying the clear lens off the housing (leave oven on at 250 degrees)

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Once you have removed the clear lens, put the housing (without clear lens) back into oven for 15 minutes to heat the silicone holding the orange lens

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Remove Housing from oven and pry the orange lens off the housing (this is very easy!)

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This is everything taken apart

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(I put the housing back into the oven after everything was taken apart to heat up the silicone, around the edge making it easier to remove it all...I had to put it in multiple times because the old silicone gets cold and hard real fast making it hard to peel off..when its warm though, it peels off like tape!)


I do NOT have Re-Install pictures as I have not put them back together yet! All you need to do is put a line of silicone around the housing where the old silicone was...make sure its a solid line with no holes or breaks...this will keep your lens weather proof!
 
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Clean housings with alcohol (WARNING: BE CAREFUL!!!! If you rub too hard to too much, you WILL rub the chrome off...and then you'll have shiny black areas!!!)

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Painting the housings (DONT go wild...spray 1 or 2 coats and let dry for bout 10-15 minutes...then spray more coats and dry time as needed)

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Comparing both

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Both housings on the truck

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Making sure blinkers do NOT emit red light...blinkers are still Orange

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Painting 2nd housing

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Final result at night with red-chrome housing

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You posted in the wrong section though haha.

I feel stupid! lol.. :idiot:

btw..all of that was only 1/2 of my corner light project...my secret project still has more to come! ;)


I'd like to paint my headlight housings as well..the chrome trim facing forward (the parts that do NOT reflect light)
 

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Eh what ever, im assuming this could be done to the 07+ vehicles to so who cares? Looks sweet blizz.
 

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nice. im liking what your doing with the black and red. i plan on doing something like this to mine next time i take it apart.
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and also did you break your from lip sir?
 
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Thanks Sam! :)

And yes I did...I went through a dip in the mountains way too fast expecting just to drag the lip like I always do...but this had a grate in the road to prevent livestock from crossing the road...I guess when the truck sunk down into the dip at speed, the lip corners might have got stuck and ripped off...no biggie though...they are cheap pieces! :)


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hell yea that looks good. i think if you did the heads to match it would look nice. specially if your going to keep the grille red. then you just need some red 26s :Handshake:

but yea i know what you mean about the lip. i broke mine the day i got it and still havent bought a new one but its no biggy. their like 40$
 

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