'76 Headlight Door Issue
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'76 Headlight Door Issue
I'm in the process of painting my '76 and I pulled the headlight switch on to open the headlight doors to prep around doors. Although the headlights opened and went on, when I shut them off only one (left) closed. The right side will not shut. Any ideas? Can I manually close it to finish my paint work? I never had issues with this for 25 years.
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First upload the file on this link. http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c3-t...tics-free.html
Or here is a direct link: http://willcoxcorvette.com/repairand...lp.php?hID=280
You can reach under the headlamp and push the linkage to lower the headlamp.
I wonder if you didn't knock the hose off the relay. The actuator relay is controlled by a black hose that runs off a T in the center. This is the hose that supplies vacuum to the relay. Look on top the relay and see if the hose is still on the relay.
Make sure you didn't knock off the hoses from the relay and then check the hoses from the actuator to the relay.
Willcox
Or here is a direct link: http://willcoxcorvette.com/repairand...lp.php?hID=280
You can reach under the headlamp and push the linkage to lower the headlamp.
I wonder if you didn't knock the hose off the relay. The actuator relay is controlled by a black hose that runs off a T in the center. This is the hose that supplies vacuum to the relay. Look on top the relay and see if the hose is still on the relay.
Make sure you didn't knock off the hoses from the relay and then check the hoses from the actuator to the relay.
Willcox
Last edited by Willcox Corvette; Jul 13, 2009 at 09:58 PM.
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From: Jeffersonville Indiana 812-288-7103
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If you check the hoses and they are on the headlamp actuator and the relay, switch the small hose and the larger three hoses to the other relay and see if that makes the opposite side come up. If it comes up you have a relay problem. If it fails then you have an actuator problem. Basically what you are doing is switching the relay. Since you have a good one from the one side opening, you can use it as a tester!
Willcox
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