Date:         Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:02:11 -0800
Reply-To:     Mark Belanger <belanger@FLUID.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Belanger <belanger@FLUID.COM>
Organization: Fluid, Inc.
Subject:      Re: Headlight Wiring
Comments: To: Mike Ross <mjross81@SWBELL.NET>
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The previous owner must have had an old American truck.  My old Bronco
has one of those and it's mighty satisfying to stomp on that sucker.  If
only I could mount a horn switch like that...  On second thought, I'd
probably put my foot through the floor...  Nevermind.


-MB

Mike Ross wrote:
> Well today I went out to remove the floor mounted headlight dimmer switch
> that the dumb previous owner installed.  It had three wires going to it, a
> white wire, a white wire with a black stripe, and a yellow wire with a black
> stripe.  Now I'm pretty sure that these wires are supposed to run through
> the steering column mounted turn signal / dimmer switch.  I know that the
> headlights work (touching one of the wires to the white wire with a black
> stripe turns on either the high or low beams), but I cannot get them to work
> when hooked through the column mounted dimmer switch.  I know it is not the
> dimmer / turn signal switch because that switch is new.  I can get the
> running lights (everything but the headlights) to turn on by flipping the
> switch on the gauge cluster.  Is there something I am missing?

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Mark Belanger - belanger@fluid.com