[DeTomaso] Head Lights - Trouble shooting

[Charles McCall]

Actually not quite correct although you couldn't know it. I had my wiring
modified by the factory so that the buckets don't raise with the parking
lights. I thought that looked weird, so I had Enrico change it when it was
at the factory once for other work. 

That makes it an official factory modification! But theoretically you are
correct...

Charles McCall
1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
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-----Mensaje original-----
De: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] En
nombre de Tomas Gunnarsson
Enviado el: lunes, 28 de julio de 2008 23:04
Para: detomaso at realbig.com
Asunto: Re: [DeTomaso] Head Lights - Trouble shooting

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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