Changing the parkers on an R33

[Airzone]

Hi,

One of my parkers has died. I had a quick look to see how difficult it would be and it looks like a bitch of a job. There doesn't seem to be anything regarding how to change parkers on the forum...

Has anyone done this before? It's a S1 GTS-T. The side in question is the same side as the turbo...

[nismoman18]

too easy mate just squeeze ur hand in and twist the fitting anti clockwise about 90 degrees, its hard ull get cuts on ur hand if urve got an airbox. u could take it to an auto electrician but be wastin ur money man

[Airzone]

No way an auto-electrician is going to change my light bulbs :-)

If necessary, I'll try to remove the air box..

[Talej]

Just wondering... do you turn it anti clockwise for the other side as well or clockwise?? I can get the one of the passenger side changed but not the other one...

[rb25]

my left parker is a biatch to get out.... twist it hard!

[nismoman18]

i think my right one is hard cos the water bottle is in the way, i actually take my headlights off to do anything with the lightbulbs hey

[Talej]

that seems like a lot of effort just to change light bulbs

[(B1) MR_fanny]

righty tighty.....lefty loosey....haha. i agree, takin the whole headlight off to change a parker is abit extreem, then again i have small girly hands:D

[Guest RedLineGTR]

hehee...it is a bitch but you can do it. and i have big hands

[nismoman18]

yeah u can do it, but im constantly tinkering with them so i always find it easier to just unbolt the and fiddle here and there. like i had the indicators goin in the parker bulb case for a while, but it was fast flickering (small bulbs) and you couldnt see it, so i changed it back. ive got cut wires here and there hehe

[hippy]

yeah just gotta use a bit of force .. then find blue parkers and put them on .. rice to the max

[eryc]

i find a pair of long nose pliers help if you got big hands

they are big with almost right angle tips on them

[nismoman18]

blue parkers are illegal though man, you can get sum hyper white ones however, that give a blue tinge but are more white so u dont get pulled over by the cops

[Airzone]

Well, I changed it for the princely sum of $1.50... Undid the power cable and gave it a small twist with the needle nose pliers. Then it just unscrewed :-) Same thing in reverse to put it back. I don't think they'd ever been changed before 'cause there was that much crap and dust in there... It's amazing the things that never have been changed before... My spare tyre is the original japanese one (although it -should- have been replaced), and it's still got it's dye on the tread.. Never been used :-)

[HappyPuppy]

Ok, this might be a dumb question but how do you change the parker bulbs in that are in the actual headlights? (not the ones on the corners).

I tried twisting the grey plug under the main circular cap on the back of the headlight but it wouldn't move and I really don't want to get the pliers onto it unless I know that I'm twisting the right thing the right way!

Oh, and yes I know you can't pass a roadworthy with these parker bulbs in.

[(B1) MR_fanny]

unless u got a special headlamp or someone has modified it....there isnt any parker lights in the actual headlights for a 33.

post a pic up!!

[HKSgtst]

get some mates with small hands, much easier to get em out and in.

[Sumo]

Normal bulbs usually have a small wire clip that holds the bulb in, its not that hard to do.

Sumo

[HappyPuppy]

Ok, after sticking my head under the car today I managed to disconect the -'ve wire that was running to the extra parking lights in all 4 of my headlights.

Couldn't actually pull the bulbs out as the assembly for them (which is located on the bottom of the headlights) is a kinda rubber plug sealed with something that feels like silicon...so it may actually be a custom job.

Tomorrow morning I'll reconnect one side and post pics :-)

[HappyPuppy]

Attached is a pic with all the parkers on...probably should've taken the pic at night :-)

If you want to see different pics of the lights on/off etc. go here http://www.geocities.com/necroboy2/