Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 13:37:20 -0500
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Subject: Re: headlights (all) - poof! - continued...
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Finally found the culprit.
There were two blue wires, one from each of the relays tied to the
high-beam switch that were tied together in a female connector, but
that connector had partially melted and pulled off of the back of the
fuse panel. It looked like it was connected, but it was displaced
from the actual connection and jammed into an empty space between the
other wires.
All four of the "high" powered wires from the relays went to
somewhere on the back of the fuse panel. Couldn't tell where the
yellow wires went.
The blue wires had fallen off of a single male connector, far left
(left is left) on the fuse block, top of the center group.
Lights work.
BTW, the high beams are 100W and the low beams are Bosch 9004 80/100W.
And in the process of removing the kluge wire that got me home the
other night, I destroyed two more of the white nylon headlight
adjusters. On hold again until the adjuster set that I just ordered
from Bus Depot arrives.
Thanks to everyone that advised.
At 12:00 AM -0400 4/5/11, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:54:03 -0500
>From: Grungy <grungy@GRUNGY.COM>
>Subject: Re: headlights (all) - poof! - continued...
>
>Found three more relays tucked up above the fuse box.
>
>All three are Bosch 0 332 209 150, which appears to be a generic,
>inexpensive relay.
>
>Two of them are held together by a single piece of peel-and-stick
>velcro tape that held the pair of them up in the dash. They both
>click when I pull on the high-beam lever. That says to me that they
>are getting power from the high-beam switch when it is pulled, but
>for some reason it is not distributed.
>
>All three are wired like this:
>
>30 BE
>85 WE
>86 BK
>87 YW
>87a - nothing
>
>Can't tell where the other end of the wires go - that will take some digging.
>
>My suspicion is that the third relay, the one that doesn't click with
>the high-beam lever, is somehow related to either the auxiliary
>battery or the AC-inverter.
>
>There may be a fuse, off of the fuse block, somewhere between these
>relays and the switches and headlights. Haven't found it yet.
>
>The ignition switch electronics check out with a VOM.
>There is continuity between 30 and X when I turn the switch.
>
>Still don't know what size/type bulbs are in the headlights.
>I know there are 55w units in the backup lights - found those last year.
--
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