Mine works the same way as you initially described also & the wiring diagram
bares this out. I don't know why they started making them that way, but I
heard that it got changed (to keep the parking lights on all of the time),
because of a lot of mistaken motorcycle identity with single headlight
vehicles causing a lot of wrecks.
Regards,
Doug Pewterbaugh
dpewter@msn.com
Denton, TX
49 3104 216 5-window
-----Original Message-----
From: Lewis Osborn <losborn@teleport.com>
To: oletrucks-digest@autox.team.net <oletrucks-digest@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Water Jacket Welding; Parking/Headlights
>From: <jeastman@appliedtheory.com>
>>Trivia Question: When my headlights are on, my parking lights aren't,
>>though my parking lights work fine w/ the parking lights only turned
>on.
>>Is this the way it came out of the factory, or are they suffering from
>the
>>same electrical wizardry that caused the previous owner to use the horn
>>relay as a ignition bus/voltage regulator?
>
>That feature started in the late '60's. On The Forty, I moved the wire
>from the parking lights to the tail light terminal on the head light
>switch. Voila!
>
>Lewis - K7LVO Valley of the Rogue-Medford, OR
>"The Forty" - 40 Chevy PU - One Owner
>http://www.teleport.com/~losborn/1940.html
>
>
>
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