My headlight adjusters were worn out ('67 dart), plastic crumbled, no adjustment. I got some new ones off ebay. The adjusters are fine, but the springs that came with them are crapola. I was reinstalling the headlight bowl and I stretched the new spring during installation and it never came back - not spring steel!! I reused my old '67 springs, rusty but still very resilient. Shiny new "springs" in the trash.

FYI,

Brian

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Good catch! It's a good thing for all of us to do a "quality analysis inspection" of today's aftermarket parts.

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"Louise", a 1976 Dart Custom project, (now sadly reverted to being just an "organ donor" to our other project Darts.)

Yeah, but the companies don't pay us for doing a job they should be doing. Actually they "effectivly"charge us

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Charrlie_S
65 Valiant 100 2dr post 170 turbo
66 Valiant Signet 225 nitrous
64 Valiant Signet
64 Valiant 4dr 170

I went through the pains of trying to find small coil springs for my old '56 Plymouth. I researched as many spring manufacturers I could find in the US. Only a couple would even sell to hobbyists, and then only their standard products, since they had fear of a custom size being used on a car. I was told that since the government has so many rules that the parts would require federal certification, even if not part of a mandated safety system.

I finally ordered stainless steel spring wire and experimented making my own. I found a youtube video that showed how it was done, but the automated tools they used were obviously not for the amateur. It took a lot of tries, but I finally made a simple tool to do the wrapping. I don't know how easy it would be to make the heavier springs like those used on headlights. The wire diameter of my springs was about half that you would need, but it might be something you could do if you build a sturdier wrapping tool.

I've bought various small springs from McMaster Carr....................

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Ed
64 Valiant 225 / 904 / 42:1 manual steering / 9" drum brakes

Yes, McMaster is awesome. I needed a return spring for a door in my house, it wouldn't stay open like I wanted. I didn't want to change the angle of the hinges, and it was a funny setup and none of the standard door return spring systems would fit. I ordered some very thin wire springs that I could put on my door hinges, just a few pounds of strength, and my door slowly stays where I want it and you can barely notice that the hinges are spring loaded.

b

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