Need Tab that holds headlight bulb in place.

I am trying to find a place to get the lil aluminum tab that holds the headlight in place. The previous owner never told me that he had broken that little piece off.

Thanks in advance

 

that tab that holds the alluminum rod is plastic. youre going to need a new headlight unless you can find a way to hold that bulb in there.

 

i broke mine, but glued it back on.

as Erik said, macgyver it or buy a new one.

 

junk yard,salvage yard,pick n pull. gooood luck.

 

I don't know if the plastic broke or the aluminum piece broke

 

I'll put my money that the plastic broke. I bought a used one that came like that already so be careful buying used on ebay.

 

This is another disappointment in Toyota engineering. That plastic retaining hook is too easily broken. I tried gluing it back on with plastic cement, JB Weld, etc. Neither fix lasted very long. And I refuse to buy another headlight housing fixture just because some little poorly-engineered plastic tab broke. So, I came up with this inexpensive fix...

A screw.

Yep - a simple little 3/8" pan-head screw, driven into a hole drilled in the plastic headlight housing, right beside the spot where the plastic latch wire retaining hook broke off. Since the housing has a square hole right behind the plastic retaining hook, the drilled hole for the screw has to be off-set towards the pressure side of the latch wire (not the catch side of the latch wire). The head of the screw acts as the new retaining hook for the latch wire. Works great. Make sure you drill the correct size hole so that the screw doesn't split the plastic.

Melsman