Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Gavins first 308GTB question, answered and car is home!

[Doug and Terri Anderson (dnt]

Gavin notes "Headlamp will be dirty contacts through lack of use... he had 
used the lights twice in 7 years!!! lol"

Hello Gavin - those lights and all the monkey motion may need some service 
too.  To get to the motor (usually ok) and the actuating arm - oil-lite 
bushings (made of unobtainium usually NOT ok) you have to remove the 
radiator hot air ducts on top of the fender.  Very carefully.

The actuating arms may, just may, not have any free travel adjustment.  The 
heim joints, or otherwise known as spherical rod-ends, show no thread where 
the joint enters the aluminum arm.  Therefore, when the lamps are raised, 
the little heim joints jamb the actuating arm over center ruining the 
oil-lite bushings and the nylon light box axel bushings the lamp box rotates 
on.

The fix - remove the actuating arm, cut about 1/2 inch off of it, reinstall 
and allow just a tiny bit of jamb rather than the old full force over center 
binding jamb.

Good luck.

DOUG