[DeTomaso] headlights work but buckets to not raise up

Peter Kovacs peter-kovacs at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jul 7 16:45:49 EDT 2009


When my blower motor went bad, it blew the fuse. if I recall correctly, the fuse that worked the heater blower also raised the headlight buckets. Check to see if your heater blower works.
 
Peter Kovacs
Property Equity & Mortgage Mgmt
209 345-6708 
209 523-4919 fx




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From: Forest Majors <oldveloce at comcast.net>
To: MikeLDrew at aol.com; JDeRyke at aol.com; LEVITT1946 at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Sunday, July 5, 2009 2:07:49 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] headlights work but buckets to not raise up

Bob, do yourself a favor and bring your car over to Connecticut for our tech
session on Saturday the 11th. Jon Haas is doing a tech session on his
electrical components for the Pantera and I am going to grill a few
hamburgers. I have installed or modified a lot of Pantera owners cars, as a
favor and at no cost, using all of the various solutions - Rick's relay kit,
Timma's modified fuse box and even a do it yourself thing sold by Corley -
Rick and Bob's solutions are good solid solutions but Jon has the best - and
I have no vested interests. My only interest is in the continuation of these
cars. So come across the sound and we can show you examples of all of the
above then you can make your own decision.

Forest Majors - Grilling in Hadlyme Connecticut on Saturday

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of MikeLDrew at aol.com
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 1:06 AM
To: JDeRyke at aol.com; LEVITT1946 at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] headlights work but buckets to not raise up

In a message dated 7/3/09 4:35:50 PM, LEVITT1946 at aol.com writes:

> I would like to do some nightime driving except my buckets do not raise
> up. I can see that the headlights are on but buckets do not move at all.

Bob--your headlights worked before, did they not?  What (if anything) have 
you changed?  If your lights worked properly before and suddenly stopped, 
the chances are most likely that either one of your limit switches has 
failed, or (*much* more likely) you toasted your headlight switch by running

high-powered headlamps without properly isolating the switch using relays to

actually power the lamps.

On your cross-country drive, were you driving at night using the high 
beams?  If you have whippy-dippy halogen lights installed, that's a good
way to 
sizzle the switch.  Assuming your switch is bad, simply replacing it will 
restore proper function to the lights--for awhile.  But you're just waiting

to burn up another switch.  

The smart call is always to rewire the headlight circuit to incorporate 
relays for the lamp power, both low and high beam.  You can either do it 
yourself following any of a number of wiring schematics that are out there 
(including mine), or you can do it the easy way with a plug-and-play wiring
kit by 
Rick Moseley, Rich Boschert, or Bob Timma.

When you order your new switch, be sure to specify whether you want a 
1971/Euro style (with a symbol of a headlight) or a '72-74 USA-style (with
the 
word LIGHTS).  Wilkinson seems to have the best prices on switches these 
days, as he's tooled up to produce a jillion of them recently.

And finally, JDeRyke at aol.com writes:


> And unless you are lucky, once they're up, switching on
> the ignition will instantly lower the lights...
> 

...unless you manually raise the lights, then turn on the headlight switch 
*before* you turn on the ignition switch.

Mike (been there, done that, raised 'em by hand twice, learned my lesson 
the second time!) :>)




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