Even if they were not broken you should ditch the old sealed beams.
Their brightness deteriorates over time so that any cars that still have these original units fitted will now be
very inferior when compared to the headlights fitted to late model cars.
A simple and cheap upgrade is to fit modern high quality semi-sealed lens/reflectors in combination with high performance halogen globes.
Forget the Ebay plastic cheapies and go for something high quality, but when buying lens assy's
buy them in Australia to be sure the beam pattern will be the right way around - left hand drive lenses are different.
I replaced my old sealed beams with Hella lens/reflector units, (Hella part number 1043) along with Phillips Vision Plus globes.
Even though these globes were the stock 55/60w rating the difference was absolutely stunning!!!
This conversion cost me around $200 about 4 years ago.