Re: no headlights!!! starts with or without NSS!!
[Re: scratchnfotraction]
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03/10/17 12:35 AM
03/10/17 12:35 AM
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poorboy
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The headlight circuit is pretty basic. Power from the switch goes to the dimmer. and from the dimmer it goes either to the high beam or the low beam wires on the headlight, and from the light it goes to ground.
Pull the switch off the floor, with the light switch turned on, check for power to the center wire on the 3 wire plug. One of the other wires should also be powered. Manually click the dimmer switch, and the other wire should power up, and the one that was powered will loose the power. If you have power coming in, and none going out, the switch is defective. Can can also connect a jumper wire from the hot to either of the other plugs and get lights (be careful not to ground the wires). It is "normal" for the dimmer switch to fail by not making the connection through it.
If you have power through the switch, you need to check for power at the lights, on both high and low beam. I have seen total failure of both headlights, and bad grounds not allowing the lights to light up.
For you info, the replacement headlight switches are among the poorest quality new switches currently on the market! Do not assume a new switch is good, at all! We had to put 3 brand new out of the package headlight switches in my son's car before we got one where everything worked. Gene
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Re: no headlights!!! starts with or without NSS!!
[Re: scratchnfotraction]
#2267291
03/11/17 11:11 AM
03/11/17 11:11 AM
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Joined: May 2003
Posts: 15,487 Florida
scratchnfotraction
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all done.
1) dimmer plug lead wrapped into harness but has a 2nd plug that was not connected in the main harness.
I don't see why I could not see it. wife said I was stressing over it too much. it should have been a snake and bit me a few times.
2) got a tail light wire backwards on the ebay chassis harness where they added a trailer plug.
3) 2 bulbs?
gave a newer SERVICE & CUSTOMS shop in town the work. had it done 2 hrs ready for pick up. 165$ they restore/repair older cars and trucks.
redid the rear of the chassis harness and wired my stepside tail lights up with factory plugs for bed removal, wired up the tag light.
they took the 2 stock tail light sub harnesses for a wide box, converted by cut/shorten/connected with stock plug connectors to my stepside mounted tail lights for easy bed removal and a tidy wire harness down frame/across back.
Last edited by scratchnfotraction; 03/11/17 11:14 AM.
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