Hi guys, I've fixed my problem. Indeed, the white wire was what I wanted. I was quite confused. Neither this, nor the yellow-and-black wire, go to the dimmer switch. Both run between the wand and the fuse box. -Wes
Wesley Pegden wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm putting in relays for the headlights in my '84. I'm experiencing > some strange behavior, and am afraid I have shorted something out (but > maybe not, then again). > > To install the relays, I cut the low and high beam wires (on my '84, > these are yellow-and-black and white-and-black, if I've done this > right), between the headlight (dimmer) switch and the turn signal/high > beam wand to the left of the steering wheel. If I twist these wires > back together, everything works. If I hook them all up to the relays > (which I believe are correctly grounded and powered) then only the high > beams work (but they really work: i.e, they stay on, whereas with both > of these wires cut, the high beams will flash when you pull the wand, > but not stay). If I run just the high beam wires through one of the > relays, but twist the low-beam (yellow-and-black) wires together, > everything works, REGARDLESS of which relay the white-and-black wires > run through (Which is why I suspect the relays are okay). On the other > hand, in any configuration where the yellow-and-black wires go through a > relay, I can't get the low beams to work. > > Other possibly strange behavior: To get the low-beams to work, I need > to twist together both sets of wires, whereas for the high beams, just > twisting together the high-beam (white-and-black) wires is enough. > > Have I perhaps used the wrong wires? There's a white wire coming out > the signal wand... should I have used that instead of the > white-and-black wire? > > Thanks for any help, guys. > > -Wes > |
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