Repair the ground to that head light!!!!!!!!!!
Check all grounds!!! This is the cause of a lot of electrical problems
I have seen in my 30 years of automotive repair.
If you have a good clean ground system to start with the rest of the
electrical will work and go good for you
I hope this helps
Robert Baird Ft. Worth Texas
1954 Chevrolet 1/2 Ton P/U
Bill Bailey wrote:
>Wayne
>A test light is useful for determining how whether you have voltage or not
>but you really need to have a meter to check problems such as yours. You
>have a voltage drop somewhere in your system that is making the one light
>dimmer. Most likely the source of the voltage drop is either a bad headlight
>bulb plug or a crappy splice somewhere in your wiring. Trace your wiring
>from the bulb back to the dimmer switch and look for bad connections or
>loose/bad plugs.
>
>
>=========================
>Bill Bailey
>Hagerstown, MD
>1957 Chevrolet 1/2 ton
>http://www.oletruck.com
>bill@oletruck.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-oletrucks@autox.team.net
>[mailto:owner-oletrucks@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Wayne
>Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2004 2:42 PM
>To: oletrucks list
>Subject: [oletrucks] Head light mystery
>
>
>One of my head lights is dimmer than the other one. I have switch out lamps
>and still have the same problem. Is there a method one can do to work back
>from the lamp to isolate the fault. I used my testing light and can see no
>difference in signal strength between the two headlights but the dim lamp
>socket appears to be not getting enough juice when the lamp is in. I'm not
>an
>electrician and the wiring is an inherited "rat's nest!". BTW it's 12 volt.
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