On the Chevy AD front parking light, the housing has a simple hole in it for the socket bracket mounting screw to pass through. The socket bracket itself is threaded. So the screw holds the socket bracket tight to the housing.
In the picture, you see a phillips head screw. The original one was a slotted screw. When I removed it, I fat fingered it and it disappeared. So I replaced it with a same-sized screw I had on hand. With all the rebending of the original socket bracket, I managed to booger up the threads in the socket bracket pretty good. A quick pass with the tap and die set renewed the threads and it was good to go.
With the new two-wire set up, both wires won't fit through the original wire hole (the one with the grommet in the picture). I had to drill a new hole to move the socket bracket (to fit everything in the housing), so I was conveniently left with a second hole for the second wire. I plan on sealing the hole with some sort of sealer.
~ John
A kid raised on Hotwheels, Matchbox and Tonka cannot be reasonably expected to own only one vehicle as an adult.
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