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Had a nice day with the 66, had dinner and walked to the car fired it up and tried to pop up the headlights. And they did fine. But the switch stayed in the up position. Tried to push it back and the button pushed into the housing of the headlight switch and sparks fell down on my legs. It wasn't too big luckily. I opened the hood quickly and pulled the connectors from the motors to save my just rebuild motors from chewing up. After that I drove home (a 5 minute drive) and quickly removed the headlight switch. The inner work of the headlight switch was all porous, turned into bits of plastic.
Guess I just have to order a new one. Are the repro's any good, have heard some complaints about them.
Last edited by Twan Sloot; 04-19-2018 at 06:01 PM.
Glad it didn't start a fire. I do not know anything about the repros but had a similar incident last week. When I connected the battery pack to the car I moved the switch to retract the light and heard a sizzling noise so I pulled the battery pack. When I took the switch apart, the plastic piece that held the contacts was cracked and one contact was closed shut. When I moved the switch I basically closed both contacts at the same time.
Yeah, pretty happy I didn't have to grab the fire extinguisher. I was kinda amazed that there was no fuse to stop the headlight switch from shooting fireworks
Last edited by Twan Sloot; 04-19-2018 at 06:14 PM.
I got to stop reading this stuff, it may start keeping me up at night! ANYTHING can go wrong with very bad results. I do have a FE in the car just in case.
I didn't like the looks of the repro headlight switch's outer housing....the lettering and a few other things were slightly off.
So I put the repro guts into the original housing and its been fine for a couple of years now...
I didn't like the looks of the repro headlight switch's outer housing....the lettering and a few other things were slightly off.
So I put the repro guts into the original housing and its been fine for a couple of years now...
Thanks, guess I will go with that solution as well. my metal housing is fine
Last edited by Twan Sloot; 04-19-2018 at 07:05 PM.
There's a 30 amp circuit breaker, auto resets, on the driver side kick panel that protects that switch. It feeds the red wire to the center contact for the headlight rollover switch.
You may be surprised there's no fuse to the cigarette lighter either. 12 volts hot all the time unfused
04-19-2018, 04:58 PM
Had a lightshow under the dash.
I got to stop reading this stuff, it may start keeping me up at night! ANYTHING can go wrong with very bad results. I do have a FE in the car just in case.
