High beam switch and other issue 69 charger
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10/28/18 10:51 PM
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I wired up the forward harness on 69 Charger Daytona today,fresh car,here's my issues. I have low beams just fine but I hit the switch on the floor and the low beam goes out pass side,never a high beam yet on pass side but works great on drivers,Hit the switch and the low beam comes back,but never a high beam on pass side.I havnt bought a dimmer switch with my job it will be late in week before I can get a replacement if I go that route.What would cause this??All 4 lights are new Wagners. Next issue is I have no turn signal indication on the dash or out to the lights,no noise from the flasher or at the rear of car,nor brake lights.Where would you start with that?Don't expect anybody to write a book about it just looking for some advice thanks!!
I do have partk lights and rear taillights
Last edited by pullandrag; 10/28/18 10:53 PM.
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Re: High beam switch and other issue 69 charger
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10/28/18 11:05 PM
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Did you verify the high beam work in the pass side light? Might be burned out. Best I recall the dimmer switch dims both, so if one works it isn't the switch, that splits off in the harness not in the switch..
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Re: High beam switch and other issue 69 charger
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10/29/18 01:32 AM
10/29/18 01:32 AM
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When you switch the dimmer switch from low beam to high beam, there no longer is power to the low beam side of the headlight, that power is switched to the high beam circuit.
If either the high beam or the low beam headlight lights up, the ground is OK, both the high beam and the low beam parts of the same side headlight are grounded through the same ground wire. Each side of the car has its own ground wire. If it is a poor ground, the high beam may not be very bright, buy most of the time it will still light up.
Both the turn signals and the 4 way flashers have their own separate fuses in the fuse box. Be sure those fuses are good. From the fuse, the power goes to the flasher units, then both circuits go to the turn signal switch. From the turn signal switch, each turn/flasher light is powered individually. After the turn switch, both the turn and the flasher use the same power wire for each individual light. There are 3 wires to each individual turn light socket. One wire is for turn/4 way flasher (and rear brake light), one wire is for parking lights, and the 3rd wire is for the ground. Each light has to have a good ground to bare metal. Gene
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Re: High beam switch and other issue 69 charger
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10/31/18 10:43 PM
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A 69 Charger is a 4 headlight system. The center most light on each side is high beam only and should only have power when the high beams are turned on. Those two headlights should only have 2 wires, one for the high beam power, and the other is ground. Often the high beam power is spliced from the high beam power on the other headlight on its side.
The outer headlights are high and low beam. There are 2 filaments in each of those lights. There are 3 wires going to each of those headlights. One wire is high beam power, one is low beam power, and the 3rd wire is ground. I incorrectly stated that when the power was switch from the low beam to the high beam the light would go out, but what I should have said was the low beam power would go out, and the high beam would be powered. If both filaments in the light are good, the light will stay lit, but will switch from the low beam to the high beam. It is possible that either one of the two filaments in a light could be bad and the other still be good. Then that light would function when the good filament was powered, and would go out when the bad filament was powered.
The dimmer switch changes the power from the low beam wire to the high beam wire. Both wires are not normally powered at the same time.
Sorry if I caused you confusion. Gene
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Re: High beam switch and other issue 69 charger
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11/02/18 10:13 PM
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I registered in Nov of '03 so I musta just skated by!
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