Date:         Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:26:01 -0600
Reply-To:     Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: No Lo/Hi Beams
Comments: To: aatransaxle <daryl@aatransaxle.com>
In-Reply-To:  <BA897115F5354B4AAB0F0E5A503A8DEF@daryl01>
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Just got home .... too much rain down in that area ... and up here in SLC!
;-)

This is really weird AFAIC ....
Second day in a row the "no headlights ... but have the aux Hella 550's"
when the headlight switch is turned on. The high beam blue dash light is on
when the switch is turned on, but no lights except those Hella's. AND ....
the next (I'm winded ... PO just brought my new Glori/John Wessels drive
shaft and I carried it up the stairs) .... anyway, next morning the lights
work fine. So, I'm not going to use the high beam switch for "flashing
volks" until I can check things out. When this did its own "fix" 2 days ago,
it was me flashing another van with my radio on, that made the radio
buzz/static noise and as soon as I checked the lights immediately after
that, the problem had returned?!

The hella's are wired into the high-beam system so they normally come on
with the high beams. This is the complicating weird part, but maybe makes
the diagnosis easier?

I think a good move will be to make the Hella's independent and use a
separate dash switch for them (I have that in place now) and wire/fuse them
directly to the battery with their dedicated relay.

And yes, grounds for all those lights up front are at the steel firewall up
front.

bob

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:32 AM, aatransaxle <daryl@aatransaxle.com> wrote:

> Just saw this enail ..Without a test light in my hot little hands, don't
> know if I can shed any light.
> Ground wires above the fuse box typivslly, but if your re grounded up
> front, then not  likely
> If the high's work, then the X relay is working and feeding power to the
> light circuit...
> The Headlight swx itself may be the logical culprit..Kinda all depends on
> how the Aux lights were wired..
> Usually it's the headlight switch though.
> Daryl of AA Transaxle
>
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