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Old 10-05-2017, 08:31 PM
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So my headlights haven’t been working and I’ve been trying to find out why, all the lights are in working condition but none of them light, I’m new with corvettes and I was looking for a fuse but looks like their isn’t one. But I was pulling off a connector to the lights and when I touched my screw driver to the terminals the lights turned on does anyone know why. The side marker lights work and I have a 77
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So my headlights haven’t been working and I’ve been trying to find out why, all the lights are in working condition but none of them light, I’m new with corvettes and I was looking for a fuse but looks like their isn’t one. But I was pulling off a connector to the lights and when I touched my screw driver to the terminals the lights turned on does anyone know why. The side marker lights work and I have a 77

Where did you touch "the connector"? Are you referring to the plug on the rear of the headlight bulbs? If so you might have a disconnected or broken ground wire. A picture or two would help.
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Sorry it’s a bad picture but the screw driver is hitting the the right terminal and the bottom of it was in this position _ it hit the middle and right side
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Where did you touch "the connector"? Are you referring to the plug on the rear of the headlight bulbs? If so you might have a disconnected or broken ground wire. A picture or two would help.
yeah the connector on the back of the bulb (the outside light bulb)
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Pull the connector off the lamp, clean the lamp terminals and then clean the terminals in the connector.

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You may be providing a ground . Like Willcox says clean them all up. Take a meter or test light and hook it to ground and see if yu have 12 volts positive. If so hook it to positive and check for negative voltage

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