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TR2/3/3A TR-3A Moss Headlight assembly
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I assume you have the 3 screw buckets. The making and riveting the screw tab are the only wrinkle I recall. Getting the damned screw in the trim ring and then into the tab is another thing. I finally went with a stainless hex head sheetmetal screw.
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A 3A should not have a screw through the ring. The early unobtanium rings were split and used a screw that ran between the halves; but the later ones that are available had no screw at all and the ring just snaps into place.
My experience has been that the tab has a tendency to bend rather than going into the clip, unless I turn the removal tool around backwards and slide it between the trim ring and the bulb retaining ring, to push the tab through the clip.
Can't help with the rivet, I bought mine from TRF and they came with the tab already installed.
One caution, though, be sure you get the hole for the tab and not the drain hole. The first pair of rings I got had the tab in the wrong place and would not fit. (TRF replaced them promptly with correct ones, though.)
My experience has been that the tab has a tendency to bend rather than going into the clip, unless I turn the removal tool around backwards and slide it between the trim ring and the bulb retaining ring, to push the tab through the clip.
Can't help with the rivet, I bought mine from TRF and they came with the tab already installed.
One caution, though, be sure you get the hole for the tab and not the drain hole. The first pair of rings I got had the tab in the wrong place and would not fit. (TRF replaced them promptly with correct ones, though.)
Thanks all-I just spent a little time and figured out that this bucket must have multiple aplications and the clip that came on the bucket must be removed and replaced (rivit) with one that is in the little plastic bag. So today the car I first drove 44 years ago gets new headlights.
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I wound up with an apron drilled for 3 adjuster buckets. I riveted my old clips to those buckets. I bought the new chrome, including snap on rings. Couldn't get the ring bottoms past the bottom of the retainers. Sent them back and got the screw thru rings. Took spring clips off the buckets and made and riveted tabs to catch the screws. Maybe wrong, but it was the only thing that worked.
Bob
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