Front turn signals

Nice day out today... back into the garage for a brief bit. This time, it's the front turn signals that are comin' out.

Driver's side turn signal mount.

Same mount, but shot from inside the wheelwell. The mount is held on by a pair of posts coming out of the mount, through the large rubber piece, seen here (which is one piece with the surrounding rubber on the outside of the mount).

Once the nuts are removed from those posts, the rubber part needs a bit of encouragement to release its fifty-two-year old grip on the fender.

Three wires snake down through the rubber mount from the main headlight area.

Said three wires are the set coming up from the left, into the plastic container in the center. I figure I'll end up replacing these type connectors with newer gear in the end.

After the sleeve holding the wires is pulled out from the headlight area, the entire piece comes free.

But of course, there's trouble. During the removal of the passenger side turn signal mount, trouble! The two posts that ran through the rubber mount, through the holes in the fender and were held down with hex nuts - both of them snapped clean off during removal - practically flush with the recepticles on the turn signal mount. I fear that I won't be getting the remnants out anytime soon, without ruining the piece as a whole. I'll be chatting Frank and Edward up on this - they have a tap set, and maybe a tap that is small enough to work here. Otherwise, I may be in the market for a replacement piece at some point. Grr.