[FC] update: headlight switch problems

[Ken Hand]

 ??? Be sure and check the dimmer switch it's self. I have seen them take out dash lights and headlights when you click on them and they hang in between contacts or there is a bad contact.

??? Try hitting the dimmer switch a few times and see what happens.


 


Ken Hand
248-613-8586
www.corvairmechanic.com 

 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Wild8bill at aol.com
To: corvanatics at corvair.org
Sent: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:53 am
Subject: [FC] update: headlight switch problems










Thanks to everyone that replied with possible solutions!
 
I should clarify that I started tracing the dead tail lights from the bulb,  
ending at the headlight switch. Power goes into the switch, but none goes out  
(except for the wire to the headlight dimmer switch). Turn signals work  fine.
 
I was wondering about the switch itself, and if anyone has run across one  
that just plain wore out. I took the switch apart and cleaned all the  
connections, but that didn't help. I'll be spending some quality time with the  
cars 
today, color-sanding the rampside and hopefully fixing the light situation  in 
the convertible (the wife is demanding to drive it because he weather is so  
nice!).
 
Now that I think of it, I probably have an extra switch attached to one of  
the spare dash clusters stored away someplace, I'll dig that out and try the  
swap and see what that does.
 
Bill
'61 rampy
'63 greenbrier
'63 convert



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