Topic: Help with parking lamp sockets

[martyjac]

Looking to change the parking lamp socket on a '69 Shelby (Cougar) parking lamp. I don't want to damage the housing. Is there a trick to getting the old socket out of the lamp?
Thanks in advance

[68blk500c]

Have used a small, sharp, 90 degree pick to gradually work up the lip of the socket; tedious work.  Others have been replacing sockets for years--what do they say?

[Bob Gaines]

I may be mistaken, but there doesn't appear to any crimp on the socket. It just looks like a tight press fit.

Don is used to doing the 68 style i think. The 69/70 Shelby park light receptacle is held in place by a interference fit. The 69 Shelby park light will come out by supporting the back side with a deep well socket. You carefully tap down the receptacle on the front side with a deep well socket of the same outside diameter  turned upside down so that flat end rests on and supports the open end of the receptacle. I use some WD40 to lubricate the receptacle sides as I am tapping it down through the receptacle hole.

[68blk500c]

Tunnel vision.  How did you guess, Bob?

[Bob Gaines]

Tunnel vision.  How did you guess, Bob?

After over several decades of knowing you I have a guessing advantage .