Headlight switch

[Phil]

Due to the fact the headlight switch seems to be made of chocolate, has anyone come up with another system for using side lights, head lights and main beam?

Two seperate switches possibly?

 

 

FreeRange7

 

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[Bricol]

What are you doing to them?

 

My side/dip switch, main beam switch, and main beam flash switch are the originals from build in 2001 and 35000 miles ago. The two toggles have gone up the trouser leg a couple of times, I'm not sure how, but . . .They've always worked. Car lives outside too, so not exactly in a dry, humidity free environment. Okay, the hazard switch needs the occasionaly rapid cycling to make the indicators work, but other than that they seem as reliable as anything else.

 

I use the same tye of switches on the Dutton trials car, liberated from ancient BMC vehicles in scrapyards around the country, and they are really abused on events - covered in mud and water, snow, hail, dust. And as it is placed on the trailer backwards due to the ballast, they get really blasted with high speed water on a rainy motorway. Car then lives outside with a bikini top that trues to ape a half hood, but lets lots more water in - only thing to get jittery is a push/pull switch of indeterminate make for the wipers.

 

Bri

[Jason Plato]

I split them out to toggles

 

30amp if I recall

 

here is my Duratec R .... C7 TOP

Taffia joint AO with Al

 

[Phil]

Thanks

If I split them and use two toggle switches how do they wire up please, seem to remember that ther are several connections on the back and a couple of spades?

 

FreeRange7

 

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[alan7]

Phil

 

The light switch has 3 connections

Brown/Blue from the ignition switch & feeds the flasher switch

Red feeds the side lights, rear lights & panel lights

Slate feeds the main lighting relay

 

The 3 position switch works as follows

1 = off

2 = turns side lights on (Red) + panel lights (Red/White)

3 = Keeps the side light on + activates the lighting relay (via the Slate wire) to give power to the dip switch via a Blue wire.

Replace with an Off - on1 - on 1+2 toggle switch

 

The dip switch actiates either the diped lights (Blue/Red) via a 15A fuse No. 9

OR the main beam headlights (Blue/White) via a 15A fuse No. 8 - this wire also provides power to the rear fog light via a 5A fuse No.5

Replace dip switch with an on-on toggle switch

 

The flasher switch is fed from the ignition switch (Brown Blue) & activates the main beam headlights via the Blue/White wire.

 

Colours are from an 1998 K series EU2 so the colours may vary from yours, sounds complicated but it's not.If you blatmail me I'll send you a wiring diagram.

 

 

How do you get the dead flies off your teeth....... 😬 R5AAH

 

Edited by - alan7 on 25 Jan 2011 00:15:30

[Phil]

Hi Alen, thanks for that, will take the switch apart and have a look at the wiring.

1990 super sprint dd

 

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