Miata Mailing List: January 1994, Message #110
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   From: Alan Dahl 
Subject: headlight motor problems
   Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 12:44:45 -0500

I'd been having a problem with my driver's side headlight motor making quite a  
clunk-clunk-clunk sound as the lights were retracted so this weekend I removed  
the headlight retractor motor and disassembled it (BTW: There is a right way  
and a wrong way to do this and I learned both, ask me if you ever need to do  
this myself). It turned out what had happened is that one of the motor brush  
magnets had cracked in two horizontally and a large sliver had fallen down into  
the gearing. I removed the chunk and re-assembled the motor (after several  
false starts) with the remaining 1 1/2 magnets and it works fine now. I suspect  
that this was just a fluke but I was wondering if anyone else had seen this  
problem?

I'm going to see if I can find a source for new brushes (either Mazda or  
somewhere else) but I suspect I'll just have to hope that it'll last and resign  
myself for paying for a new motor when the brushes finally go.

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