Date:         Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:55:38 -0700
Reply-To:     gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: headlight question"david are you there?"
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 Tim and Jordan

If this was a 1970 ford van I would agree about it
being the main switch but on a vanagon it is more
likely to be the relay, the high low beam switch or
perhaps a bad connection that gets hot somwhere.  The
switch in the dash is low current?
Am I right about this one david?
           gary
Date:    Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:09:14 EDT
From:    JordanVw@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: headlight question

In a message dated 6/1/02 12:01:05 AM Eastern Daylight
Time,
bmegas@ISLAND.NET writes:


> We bought an 86 Westy last October and of couse it
is great. A few
months
> ago while driving home at night with the bright
headlights on for a
long
> time, all of a sudden the bright lights turned
themselves off.
Flicked the
> high beam/low beam lever and the low beams came on.
Flicking the
lever again
> to get the high beams back on produced no high beams
and no blue high
beam
> indicator light. However, a few minutes later,
everything returned to
> normal. This happened on three different occassions,
and since then I
just
> haven't really been out much at night long enough to
see if the
problem
> remains. When I looked at the wiring diagram, I got
hopelessly
confused.
> Anybody had the same problem?
>
>

bad headlight switch

ive got spares for $15


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