Hi Paul,
Just got off of the instant messenger with my room mate.
Tail lights aren't on, and turning on the switch makes all the lights work
o.k. but the head lights, (passenger's side still on, driver's still out)
are unchanged.
Indicators, flashers ect., all o.k..
Activating the dip switch does nothing. Lights don't dip, drivers headlight
doesn't come on. Doesn't matter if the light switch is on or off: same
result.
Hope this helps?
Scott
>From: <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
>To: "Scott Allen" <scottinarl@hotmail.com>, <mgs@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: How odd
>Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:16:16 -0000
>
>Were the tail lights on? Did the dip-switch affect which lights were on?
>If the answer to the first is no and the second is yes then I would suspect
>a problem in or around the main light switch where the blue (to the
>dip-switch) has come into contact with the brown (always hot) plus the
>driver's side dipped beam has failed for some reason, as when one is on the
>other should be also. The tail lights being on would point to the switch
>more than the wiring, and if the dip-switch makes no difference it
>indicates
>a contact between the blue/red or blue/white (depending on whether the
>dipped or main beam is on) and a brown, somewhere between the dip-switch
>and
>however far forward the browns go - fuse box?
>
>The head lights are not affected by either ignition or fuses which fits in
>with the other steps your room-mate took. The only 'always hot' circuit
>'up
>front' is to the horns which are powered off the bottom fuse so pulling
>this
>would have cut the power to the lights if the problem had been on that
>wire.
>The stray contact must be to a brown as pulling the battery connection was
>the only thing that killed it.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Scott Allen" <scottinarl@hotmail.com>
>To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:46 PM
>Subject: How odd
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > My room mate is tearing up the roads of Northern Virginia in my 74 1/2
>BGT
> > while I'm off in a far off land, and he reports this problem which I'll
> > admit is strange...
> >
> > Yesterday on the way to work he noticed that the passenger side
>headlight
> > was on.
> >
> > The light switch was off.
> >
> > He put the light switch on, (car running) passenger side headlight
>stayed
> > on, driver side did not come on.
> >
> > He turned the car off. Passenger side headlight stayed on.
> >
> > So as not to drain the battery, (he thought) he pulled the fuses. The
> > headlight stayed on.
> >
> > So of course he pulled the ground on the battery and it went out.
> >
> > Like the subject says: how odd.
> >
> > Anyone else have this happen to them?
> >
> > My inclination is to have him start checking out the switch for a short
>and
> > work back to the headight wiring, but I thought I'd draw from the deep
>well
> > of knowledge here before giving him his marching orders.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Scott Allen
> >
> > 74 1/2 BGT
> > 52 TD
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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