[DeTomaso] Head Lights - Trouble shooting

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

Yes, but were they lit inside the fender? BTW, your car is a bad example as it's wired to raise the buckets with the parking lights. On a US car the bucket signal wire and headlight power is physically crimped together at the switch. If the switch fails, no lights and no buckets. On your car you could theoretically have lights but no buckets with a failing switch.

Tomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles McCall" <charlesmccall at gmail.com>
To: "'Tomas Gunnarsson'" <guson at home.se>; <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Head Lights - Trouble shooting


> No, the "bucket signal" from the headlight switch is one wire with either
> power or no power. With power the buckets go up, with no power the buckets
> go down (caused by relay circuitry powered from a separate wire). If the
> headlight switch signal is missing they wouldn't go up. If it was there all
> the time the buckets would go up before the headlights are turned on. In
> this case they were down until the headlights were turned on as far as I
> understood.
> 
> ***Without knowing how the switch is actually wired, this would coincide
> with our experience, Mike, in a failing switch. You'll recall my headlight
> action in the death throes of my headlight switch - when it failed, the
> headlights went down and wouldn't go up again. 
> 
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