NO!! Your OTHER left!!!

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  1. Jsarnold

    Jsarnold Senior Member

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    Anyone run into this before?

    Yesterday when installing the headlight buckets we found the "LH" and "RH" markings on the buckets and went about installing LH on driver's side and RH on passenger side only to discover that the only way the bulbs would fit was rotated 90 degrees from vertical. :huh: So, for the first drive around the neighborhood that's how they were.

    Didn't try it but bright/dim would have been straight/cross-eyed. :biglaugh:

    Got looking at it this morning and found everything assembled correctly with the "LH" bucket on the passenger side and "RH" on the driver's side. :hmmm: What's up with THAT???
     
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    You've got the fenders on backwards! :rofl2:
     
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    yup that's what it is

    X-2
     
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    In all honesty, I never noticed the stampings... seems unlikely they are marked looking from the front of the car. Are they the original ones?
     
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    rayzorsharp I "AM" a Maverick!

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    I have came across the same thing before. :yup:
     
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    I ran into this last month after I restored a L.H. bucket for the L.H. fender. I'm guessing the it is the R.H. side of the car when you're facing the car although the drivers fender is on the left side. At least when it is time for me to do the R.H. fender the headlight bucket will already restored.
     
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    :biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh:Hadn't considered that. :biglaugh:
     
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    When we hit the problem, my buddy asks, "Is it possible they mean LH/RH when facing the front?" "Not possible", I said.

    Maybe the auto industry needs to use "port" and "starboard". :yup:
     
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  9. justin has a 74

    justin has a 74 Maverick bandit official

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    Mabe its the left when your looking on the car or left as in drivers side?
     
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    considering made in canada don't surprise me lol backwoods backwards lol btw I'm canadian blood so no flaming from you bc guys
     
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    Standard in the trade is left and right from sitting in drivers seat. Anything other than that is wrong. Even in Canada EH!!! :yup:

    Never noticed Lh Rh on my buckets?? :huh:
     
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    Iv'e seen that also,but some are marked correctly too! Maybe those off ones were a Monday production after a rough weekend!:biglaugh:
     
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    Can you post a pic showing where the markings are so us lazy folk don't have to go look at some? :D
     
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    I would but they're installed.

    Maybe the mis-stamped ones are collectable like coins with errors. :rofl2:
     
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    Notice the window where the tension spring hooks onto the bucket...

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