Try bypassing the original wiring by using 14 gauge wire direct from the
battery to the headlamp. If this brightens things up then you
wiring/connector/switch problem.
Good luck
Dave Formstone
1960 Bugeye
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From: David Wood[SMTP:dewood@sentex.net]
Sent: August 30, 1998 20:06 PM
To: McNaughton, W.J.
Cc: 'spridgets@autox.team.net'
Subject: Re: Really Dim Lights
I've cleaned bullet connectors like crazy a couple of weeks ago. You'll
find them in the lines between the headlights to the switch and the high
beam indicator.
at the headlights
where the lines from the lights meet the fused lines at the bulkhead
at a connection point to the light switch under the air inlet duct for
heater
They can be green with corrosion and drop a lot of voltage across them.
McNaughton, W.J. wrote:
>
> My '58 Bugeye's "eyes" with haloge 65/55w bulbs barely glow on the low
> dip and are about what I would expect for illumination on low beam when
> on high.(I've never had an approaching driver flick his high beams at me
> because he thought my lights were too bright.) I believe I read as a
> throwaway side comment sometime that for some European countries the
> headlight systems had a resister of some sort built in to keep the low
> beams down to what was a locally acceptable level. Is there such a
> thing? If so where and/ or what is it?
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> I await in hope of enlightenment.
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