I recently noticed that one of my headlights has quite a bit of moisture in it. So, obviously I'll need to bake it to crack it open. However, after searching and looking at numerous threads I couldn't find the temprature and length of time I need to leave it in my oven. I only found pictures of step-by-step processes. If anyone could help me with this, I'd appreciate it.

 

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=282131


I found that within 3 sec of typing bake in the search, try it sometime it works wonders

 

what year is your car from 92-95,

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by tuck’d98 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what year is your car from 92-95,</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yes.

 

I belive its different, the seals are diff, ill look

 

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I think so too, I remember reading something about that.

 

I painted my headlights black on my 92-95.... as for the baking process... i believe i put it at 250 degrees for 5-8 minutes.... the hardest part is prying it open because it becomes very fragile to cracking on the housing after it comes out the oven....

 

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Was it easy to pry apart after it was in there? Or did you have to pry pretty hard? What kind of sealant did you use to re-seal it?

 

i cant find that thread about the eg headlights, i did mine (96-98) and i resealed with the stuff called goop in a redish tube, worked great

 

Great. Well, I'll start 200 degrees @ 5 minutes, and try from there. Thanks guys!

 

When the headlights come out of the oven [depending on oven type and length inside], you can check around the housing and the glass for the sealant.... if it's mushy, then most likely you'd be able to pry it open with a flathead.... as for if I had to pry it hard...well, let's just say, hard isn't the answer here even if you feel a little more strength will do... most likely, it'll just crack the housing... that's what happened to mine... so just slowing pry along the perimeter of the entire housing to loosen it and then go for more of a gap until you're able to just split the sealant. As for reassembly, I just threw it back in the oven for the same amount of time [note: they're still seperated], melting the sealant and then pressing them back together.... I didn't use any other sealant.... but others have.... mine, hasn't had any condensation or buildup...

 

its not too difficult, the higher the temp less time, just not too much higher than 300-350

 

I ran a thin bead of silicon around the entire housing, then pushed them back together. NEVER had an issue, in like 4 years.

 

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So, which is it?

 

start with the lower temperature and if it doesn't come apart easily, then its no big deal. just put them back in the oven and raise the temperature.

 

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So, which is it?</TD></TR></TABLE>

it really doesn't matter, I just stated that it should be no higher than 300-350

If you do a low temp like 200 do it longer like 5-10 min.

Usually I do about 300 for 5

 

i would have to say not long itll prolly melt the plastic<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JDM-EJ1 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I recently noticed that one of my headlights has quite a bit of moisture in it. So, obviously I'll need to bake it to crack it open. However, after searching and looking at numerous threads I couldn't find the temprature and length of time I need to leave it in my oven. I only found pictures of step-by-step processes. If anyone could help me with this, I'd appreciate it. </TD></TR></TABLE>

 

And another thing, I'm using the JDM headlights.. So, it's completely plastic. As opposed to the USDM headlights with the glass cover.

 

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It's all good. I used to work at a plasitcs company, most plastics melt in the 400-500* range so I don't think you have to worry.