Hi All
After our 2010 Trip To The Tip, the IPF spot lights where looking a bit worst for wear.
Not very surprising after all the corrugations we encountered and the vibration of the Sovereign bull bar prior to the mount upgrade done recently.
This also resulted in the demise of a couple of UHF antenna whips.
The lights performed faultlessly and where essential for the many night time km we travelled.
It seems the clear covers on the IPF lights have chaffed the dark outer ring.
While the clamping arm with its folded clear rubber has rubbed the main body of the light housing through to the metal.
On removal from the bar it was clear that the light bodies would need a clean up.
This also lead me to think what the internals would be like, and this is what I found.
You are looking at the backing plate that the swivel mount is riveted to, its adjacent to the drain hole so one would expect moister to have been around this area.
As you can see this is the rear of the reflector housing showing its spring clips that hold it in place, within the dark outer ring.
Once the two screws are removed from the dark outer ring all is revealed.
Allowing you to remove the spring clips carefully with pliers to release the glass reflector housing.
Using a mini precision screw driver, the tabs inside the internal plug can be released from the plug to allow the wires to pass through the light body, with its rubber grommet. I then also removed the top rubber plug to prepare for the clean up.
After our 2010 Trip To The Tip, the IPF spot lights where looking a bit worst for wear.
Not very surprising after all the corrugations we encountered and the vibration of the Sovereign bull bar prior to the mount upgrade done recently.
This also resulted in the demise of a couple of UHF antenna whips.
The lights performed faultlessly and where essential for the many night time km we travelled.
It seems the clear covers on the IPF lights have chaffed the dark outer ring.
While the clamping arm with its folded clear rubber has rubbed the main body of the light housing through to the metal.
On removal from the bar it was clear that the light bodies would need a clean up.
This also lead me to think what the internals would be like, and this is what I found.
You are looking at the backing plate that the swivel mount is riveted to, its adjacent to the drain hole so one would expect moister to have been around this area.
As you can see this is the rear of the reflector housing showing its spring clips that hold it in place, within the dark outer ring.
Once the two screws are removed from the dark outer ring all is revealed.
Allowing you to remove the spring clips carefully with pliers to release the glass reflector housing.
Using a mini precision screw driver, the tabs inside the internal plug can be released from the plug to allow the wires to pass through the light body, with its rubber grommet. I then also removed the top rubber plug to prepare for the clean up.
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