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Oct 24, 2022 | 12:23 PM

marshal135

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Attention 65GGvert

May I trouble you with an electrical question?
Yesterday, I pulled my headlight switch out to the 2nd position for front headlamp activation and nothing? I had park lamps on position 1.
I pushed it back in to full off and pulled it out again wiggling the stalk. They came on?
Is my switch on the way out?
I replaced this switch last year with an open box NOS Delco-Remy replacement.
I have a stock 1965 convertible.
Thank you in advance
Marshal

Oct 24, 2022 | 01:39 PM

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Sure sounds like it, if you can duplicate that. Check the connector and the wires in the connector that plugs on the headlight switch, you may have a wire pushed partially out of the connector or possibly corroded contact. After that, if the headlights still just come on when you wiggle the switch, I'd say the contacts are bad. There are tutorials on the forum here where guys have taken them apart and cleaned the contacts. Before I did any of that I'd try using the floor bright/dim switch a few times. You may have a bad connection there from sitting and just maybe bumped it with your foot while you were wiggling the switch. If the tail lights came on and the headlights didn't that could also be the problem. If neither tail or head lamps work intermittently, then the dimmer is not the issue.

Oct 24, 2022 | 01:39 PM

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Check the connector at the dimmer switch. It may be loose and the pushing and pulling of the light switch was coincidental.

Oct 25, 2022 | 02:20 PM

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A quick check, I have rear red running lights and brake lights so zeroing in on the switch connections first as advised.
Thank you.

Oct 25, 2022 | 03:37 PM

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First, get it to fail again and step on the floor dimmer, if the lights come on that's the problem. Either the dimmer switch or loose or corroded contacts on the dimmer switch.

Oct 25, 2022 | 03:47 PM

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Adam: Go with the old standby. Spray the dimmer and headlight switches with some contact cleaner. Hope it helps. Jerry

Oct 27, 2022 | 10:14 AM

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Thanks Jerry,
I hope to see you out and about this winter.
Marshal

Oct 31, 2022 | 10:22 AM

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Just a follow up, I have not been able to get the headlight switch to replicate the earlier issue of not illuminating the low beam head lamps when pulled out to the second position. I may have been one of earth's anomalies. lol
I'll keep an eye out than try the dimmer if it goes out again.
Thank you to everyone for your help.
Marshal