<VV> Intermittent headlights

[Ron]

I've found that the replacement sitches seem to have flaky circuit breakers 
that kick off much too quickly.  These switches are made in Mexico and look 
nice but aren't worth a half a taco.  I finally had to go to a relayed 
system to make the headlights work in my '62.
RonH

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Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 5:35 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Intermittent headlights


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> Sounds like a flaky circuit breaker in the headlight switch itself. The 
> fact it gets better briefly when you turn the lights off is the clue, the 
> breaker cools down.
> Try another headlight switch, I'll bet all will be good with the world 
> again! So to speak...
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> Sent: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 8:26 am
> Subject: <VV> Intermittent headlights
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> Folks,
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>     Last night I was driving our 65 500 coupe and the headlights (and
> presumably the tail lights) suddenly went out.  Pulling the headlight 
> switch in
> and out, and twisting the knob right and left had no effect.  They finally 
> came
> back on after just pushing the switch in and leaving it in the off 
> position for
> maybe 30 seconds or so, and then pulling the switch back out.  Driving 
> back home
> they blinked or flickered a couple of times but stayed on.  I wanted to 
> make
> them go off again so I could begin to track down the problem, but twisting 
> the
> headlight knob or wiggling it back and forth did not make them go off. 
> Also, it
> does not seem like a loose connection, because driving over rough roads 
> did not
> make them go out, and when they went out we were on a smooth road and had 
> not
> hit a bump or pot hole.  My son said he encountered a similar problem a 
> couple
> weeks ago, and again, pushing the switch in a leaving it for a while is 
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> made them come back on.
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> 20    I hate these intermittent kind of problems, ‘cause you can’t fix it 
> until
> it’s broke.  Anyone got an idea of what the problem may be?  We replaced 
> the
> headlight switch a couple months ago, so that shouldn’t be bad (although 
> if I
> can’t find any other problem, I’m not opposed to doing that again).
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>     Thanks for your help.
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>              Travis Payne               65 Monza coupe
>              Raleigh, NC                65 500 coupe
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