Rusted screws in tail light housing

zip7111

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Aug 10, 2020
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Hello,
First post here. I went to change a brake light bulb today and noticed the screws are so rusted inside the tail light housing you can’t get them out. I was surprised they are so bad as this is a semi sealed unit. How would I go about getting these screws out? If I can get them out where would I get replacement screws as they seem like a specialty item. Thanks for any help.
 

Mooseman

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Blckshdw

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The pics at the bottom of the first post in that thread, are what the attachment links are/were. When you get the rusty ones out, use those to find screws of similar size. They're going into plastic, so they don't have to be exact matches on thread pitch.
 
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Mooseman

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It was a very old thread and when the site went through one of its upgrades, the pics were still attached but not in line with the text. I'll try and fix it.

Edit: Fixed
 

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