Headlight doors come up. Replace vacuum headlight door actuator, or do electric conversion?

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Even after replacing everything, I was discouraged to see my cat with eyes wide open after sitting all week. So here is a fix that will keep the eyelids closed even without vacuum, yet let them operate normally when vacuum is present.

Need headlight doors open

I run my 70 with the 2 headlight door springs working against brackets attached to those same grill bolts! Now the headlights stay closed indefinitely with no vacuum, but still have some spring assist to help the vacuum actuator open them. If the actuator were ever to fail and the headlight covers wouldn’t open, I can just move the springs back to the factory brackets closer to the radiator, and the headlight doors will again open with no vacuum. It was designed that way originally as a fail-…