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Ok, so I've been working on this project all day with some frustration. I have an 06 GT and got the front bumper and headlight assemblies removed in just under an hour. Surprisingly easy considering I can't move around too well do to recovering from a kidney transplant last week. Not suppose to be driving, so I don't mind the car being down a little.

Anyways, I've tried every tool I could think of in my garage and can't get the lens to seperate from the housing. I've stuck the headlight in the oven for 10mins at a time at 200 degrees with little progress. I've only managed to get one about unsealed about half way around. The silicone on the rest of the headlight just won't come lose. I'm concerned with leaving the headlights in the oven too long, as at 10mins they are beginning to stick to the oven rack. Thankfully they haven't warped or anything else yet. I've got enough money tied up in this project that it would be foolish to give up now.

Anyone that has done this before and has any suggestions, please let me know. It would be greatly appreciated!

have you tried searching google? that sually helps me alot when working on a mustang project! if your lucky enough people will have picture walkthroughs for you to see, and that sounds like a relatively common project so you might wanna give that a try! you can always take a hammer and knock the lights out and get new ones but I'd wait until you got REALLY frusterated before you tried that approach!

oh trust, i was just short of drop kicking one across the backyard...lol

i quit just short of getting a stick of dynamite and just hoping for the best. gonna try again tomorrow. if i mess one up, i found replacements for about $50 a piece. Go-parts.com

Funny you're having so much difficulties. One of my headlight lenses just fell out all on it's own the other day. I didn't notice till the next day but when I retraced my route I found it in the middle of the road - still intact!

well damn....I'LL TRADE YA!!! I stock the headlight in the oven again this morning and still no luck. It's half hawy unsealed, just won't bust loose. So either I finish the job or begin the task of trying to reseal what has come undone.

Wrong car, otherwise I'd be glad to take you up on that. Mine now won't stay IN!!

If it's half way unstuck, can you get at the silicon enough to work it with a razor blade just to release it then concentrate on taking the silicon off afterwards?