 Earl Glanchott forming here at Township Chevrolet for another how-to video for tech talk So today we're gonna cover headlights and taillights Something that's pretty simple fix on some cars not all cars, but some Doesn't matter your make model. They're all really similar I guess and how you kind of approach it first things you need to do is if you've got a Bulb out either a signal light or brake light or a park light headlight what I have you You want to make sure you you got the bulb you need so Things aren't just generic as far as bulbs go a lot of the manufacturers now have their own kind of kind of type of bulb Or bulb and that fits into their connector for instance on the new half-ton chev's and GMC's you could have Three or four different headlight arrangements for that one make and model a truck so you could be a High-intensity bulb you could be regular halogen bulb. You could be an LED bulb So you'd want to call your parts place Give us a call here at the parts part of township and we will get you We'll get you the bulb that you need before you get started Some of these bulb replacements are in depth enough that you're quite a bit of time to get to the bulb So you don't last thing you want to do is have that all ripped apart Not have the bulb that you need and then have to go and get the bulb or if you're if that's your only vehicle Put it back together again, so you can go get your ball So first things first find out what Bob you need call your parts place Get the part get the bulb in your hand before you get started So what I'll do is I'll show you around the back of this headlight assembly This one here you can actually do the headlight bulb without Removing the headlight assembly. So we'll go ahead and take a look at that Okay, so this is the back of the headlight assembly on this unit You'll notice you've got your wiring harness running down here That's what feeds all the power going into the unit and then you've got this cover here. So this cover it'll actually You're gonna want to turn this cover off and this is got a seal on the back side of it That seals it seals keeps the weather out So you're gonna go ahead and take that off and you'll see right behind there There's your bulb. So there's a couple ways you can do it. You can try to take your bulb out now And then take the whole wiring harness and bulb out in one piece or you can disconnect your wiring harness And in this case, it's pretty simple. You just got to lift up on this tab here and then push the bulb back the connector sorry and Then that there's not too too much room But there is enough room to work and that'll get the wiring harness out of your way So there's the wire harness when you set that off to the side and you'll notice there's three tabs on the back of this light And the three tabs are locked in so what you need to do is you just turn the bulb one direction In this case It's it's towards the driver's side of the truck and you go ahead and you're gonna pull that bulb straight out Sometimes you can see the damage on the bulb on this one here. You can start to see some darkening on the glass there Where you know, this bulb is seen better days So some information for the bulb is on the back of the bulb sometime you'll have the maker You'll have how many watts it is and then in this case you'll have a 90-12 bulb is actually what the bulb is and it's a 12 volt bulb 55 watt So you definitely want to replace the bulb with the same Wattage of bulb that you took out on some cases you can upgrade a little bit you just don't want to put too much of a load on the on the system on that circuit and actually some Some vehicles if let's say you're taking this bulb out and you're gonna put an LED bulb can actually set a Code or can he even set something up on the DIC on the instrument cluster telling you that there's an issue with your ball Because it's looking for a certain amount of resistance In the bulb to know that the bulb is working So when you put the LED light in which doesn't have that much resistance It'll actually tell you your bulbs it when it's actually working So that's why it's kind of important to replace the ball with what the manufacturer calls for So another thing to keep in mind is on a halogen bulb You don't want to touch And on the HIDs as well You don't want to touch the glass the oil from your fingers if it gets on that glass can actually cause the bulb to prematurely fail So the LEDs and the COBs, which is another form of LED Those those don't matter as far as your fingers go as much as these ones here So you want to make sure when you take it out of the box open it up It'll be sitting the old and obviously doesn't matter it's a bad bulb anyway But if you look when you take open the box up you'll want that so you can just reach in and pull it out like this So I'm just gonna go ahead and throw this ball back in just so we can kind of keep this simple for you So you're gonna want to put it in the same orientation. You're gonna want to Turn that bulb with the connector facing up You're gonna want to put some inward pressure towards it You're gonna want to turn that and that locks that into place You would definitely want to make sure that the bulb looks like it's sitting in there properly and all of those tabs are underneath If you get the bulb in there crooked it can actually heat Can melt the housing that it's sitting in so you don't want to do that You're gonna want to take this connector and put it back in the housing here and Line it up with the locking tab and then just lock it into place You'll actually physically hear a click there when it's when it's in where it needs to be You can actually see that the locking tab is done and you're gonna want to make sure you reinstall this This cover here and you're gonna want to turn that all the way it Until you feel it stop and then now you know that unit's all sealed up and you're ready to go now I chose this side here for us to use as an example Just because it's obviously an easy one to get at and we're just kind of Every car is gonna be different how you're gonna get to that bulb I chose this one because it's easy to see now if you come over here and take a look The the airbox is in the way on this vehicle So in order to get at that unit you would have to remove Obviously a few things here take this out of the way and then you could gain access to the backside of that headlight So just for simplistic sake we use the other one there, but just something to keep in mind You may have to remove You know some parts to get at what you need some you have to remove the grill some vehicles You have to remove the bumper Everyone's different, but the gist of when you get in to the actual headlight assembly itself However, you get there the gist of replacing the bulbs are almost always the same Another common style that you see other than the kind of turn in bulb like we just did there Some I have like a hinged wire and Usually when you're dealing with that style the actual bulb itself is The bulb itself is granted through the headlight assembly Phil will throw one of those picture one of those up there for you guys to have a look at so you're gonna want to push down on the wire Pull it away from the bulb to unhook it And it'll hinge out of the way and then you can go ahead and lift that bulb out And sometimes like I say they're granted right to the assembly So it'll just be like a one terminal bulb and if it's not it'll be a two terminal And then you put the new bulb in same thing don't get your fingers in the glass slide it into place Push down on that wire, and you're gonna hinge it and hook it back over and that'll be that'll be that so those are kind of the real Two main ones you get into some of the HID ones with the with the ballast is and stuff built into the back of the bulb They have a little locking a turn lock that you would actually You turn it and it'll unlock the bulb similar to what we have on what we just showed you there Only difference is you're not turning the whole bulb bulb stays stationary with the with the transformer But you turn the lock that holds it into place and as far as the LED bulbs go they go in the same same way as the regular bulbs do so Maybe we'll do now we'll go to the back of this truck And we'll kind of give you guys a quick run into how to replace a park light signal light reverse light Assembly back there, so just let's have a look Okay, so now we're at the back of the truck here We're gonna go ahead and replace the tail light or a reverse light or a signal light or a brake light either one It's gonna be all the same way most of the half tons Right from the 80s up till now or the same way so it's gonna cover a lot of the trucks It doesn't matter if it's Chev dodge Ford. They're almost all the same And it's very similar process process for the cars And vans to the only difference is obviously sometimes how you get to it where this is exposed here Some of this stuff may be in the trunk underneath some of the covering or the matting And instead of these have screws in them torque screws Some will have just a plastic fastener or a Christmas tree plug They'll call them that they will push in to hold that into place So what I'll do is I'm gonna go ahead and remove this tail light and what we're gonna do is going to remove the 250 mil Torque sockets that hold it into place So once you do that you can see the tail lights obviously loose There's a couple of clips here that hold it into the body on the front side So you're gonna want to go ahead and just give that a pull and Know that will come out. You'll need some force to do it. You don't want to bend them You want to pull that straight out on this? If you bend it obviously you crack or break the glass so you want to do that When you flip this over in the backside, you'll see there's your three bulbs. Sometimes there'll be a main connector that the That will hook all the bulbs together to be kind of a separate little harness But in this case it's three separate ones So just for the ease of working what we're gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead and remove all these bulbs By twisting them out and obviously there's a lot of dirt and stuff in here because Inside the box all the dirt from the tire gets up there. So I'm gonna go ahead and remove the three bulbs Now this truck doesn't have a tail light out or anything, but I just we're just doing this for the purpose of the video So all the bulbs obviously look good The number for these bulbs will be on it as well. They're a little hard to read on the glass but Like this one here's a 744 bulb. This is a 912 bulb You can't get the numbers off them, but they're hard to read when you replace the bulb These ones aren't so fussy as far as the oil goes in your skin But obviously keep it as clean as you can if you've got some gloves on great use them If you don't just make sure your hands aren't full of oil and grease It'll just help the life of the bulb and you want to just make sure the terminals in here look really good too So sometimes especially with all the all the water and the slush and the salt coming off the tire Especially with the half tons because I can I can physically see the tire in through these holes here So there's obviously going to catch some debris from the road through there So you want to make sure those are good obviously there's seals there to kind of seal it against the tail light if You've got any moisture in your tail light. I've seen them come in here look like a fishbowl There'll be lots of water in here obviously water in the hot bulb don't mix you're gonna have a lot of blowing so if Blown bulb so if you want to if you if you've got water in here obviously these seals could be an issue maybe someone has previously replaced the bulb and they haven't Put the gasket back on or got stuck to the light and it fell off or what have you see you want to take a look at that and make sure that's okay It could be the actual housing itself could be cracked or split this one's good everything's good and dry so once you Once you get your new bulb You're gonna go ahead and make like I say make sure the terminals and stuff were clean Make sure there's no corrosion in there everything looks fine here You're gonna go ahead and put that light in and before you go ahead and obviously put this all back together You know same as the front to be good to try and make sure everything's working so I'm just gonna go up front here the key you'll have to be on to check the signal light bulb and The park lights are on there There's your brake light The reverse light you don't have to start the car to have that reverse lights working So now we know we're good to go ahead and Put this all back together again You're gonna want to make sure you put the light back in obviously the same direction make sure the lights go the same way This one kind of wants to lay like it wants to go in so it shouldn't be a big deal I usually start with the closest one that way you got Just gives you a bit more room to work. You're gonna push Each bulb in same as the headlights we did before you're gonna push it into place Put some downward force on to make sure that seals good and seated And lock it in and then this little marker light here These are the clips. I was talking about that that hole into these holes here So that's what you're pulling again So obviously when you get dirt and so that it makes it even harder for this to kind of kind of come out So you're gonna have to use some force Same as when you go to put the lights back in again You may have to use a little bit of force to make that go so I'm gonna go ahead and give that a little a little bunt I'm gonna slide in too bad and you're gonna go ahead and you're gonna start these screws in again Now you got to remember these are tight tightening into plastic so you don't want to over tighten these I'm using this gun here. I use it a lot if you've got one of these at home So nice these can get away on you and you can strip the screws or strip the head of the screws So you just want to make sure you put a little bit of Tension on it, but nothing too too major like I said the only difference between doing some of the cars Sometimes the cars and the vans will actually have a hatch. You don't have to remove the tail light You can just remove the hatch and reach your hand in and twist the bulbs out They essentially sit in there the same way And some of the other trucks and vans instead of having those screws they'll just be like a push plug So you'll see it's almost you'll have a flat plastic I get filled to throw a picture of a push plug up but you just take like a Flat screwdriver or a pair of needle nose or side cutters and you get in there and just pull the center section out When that center comes out It allows the inside to collapse so then you can take that plug out of there and then you can remove this out so Other than that pretty much That's that's replacing the ball for the most part. Just make sure your hands are clean When you're taking it apart just take no so we're you know what you're removing and what you're taking apart So when you put it back together, you just do the reverse or it's not too bit Not too big a deal Make sure you've got your bulb that you need in the right bulb before you get started because if you're into a bit Of work we get a remove an air box or a bumper or a grill or something like that Then you want to make sure you get everything need to start the job and finish the job and obviously test it if you replace the bulb and The it doesn't work when you've got a circuit problem Which could be something more serious could be something simple as a fuse which we discussed in the last video So if you want to know how to do that just jump back to the last video and you can find how to replace a fuse You can check your fuses for your for your lights You might have a bad wiring issue somewhere or a bad switch that turns the light on so that's a whole other thing altogether So it's just kind of a quick rundown how to replace bulbs any questions or comments Just drop them down below and if you guys have any ideas on some future videos to do with how to just let us know And we look forward to seeing you. 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