OK Install complete.. what a damn time consuming mod! took me a long time.. the first headlight took me forever.. 2nd one was way quicker (learn from the 1st one)
to reiterate some points ive read on this thread that were useful to me:
1 - the oven trick posted above is GOLD.. though i put em in the oven on 175 deg for 15 minutes -- take the headlight out and go go go quickly to seperate the halfs.
2 - the freezer trick posted above is really good too -- only i put just the plastic peice in the freezer to get the silicon off before reassembly.
3 - when reinstalling the chrome peice back in the plastic peice.. i used hot glue gun to make the initial bond, and then silicon2 over it for added protection.
4 - my silicon was crazy.. so left a chunk still in there.. but loaded the GE silicon 2 crap like crazy.. and then when i sealed the lamp back up, put another bead of silicon 2 over the seal.
very happy though
day of hard work! hehehe.. but broke one orange reflector cuz i got overzealous -- hey is there any reason to keep em?? im never putting them back in.. just thinking i shud chuck the one remaining one in the garbage.
wow that was tiring...... and yeah nothing on mine came apart *easily* -- 2000 GX if anyone wanna start counting which type of car has retarded silicon.
thx for the DIYer and the help.