Blau headlight harness failure

[kentmclean at mindspring.com]

Marc Swanson wrote:
> After ruling out the bulbs I got a very high reading
> on the point to point resistance from the relay block
> to the end of the headlight connector so I stripped
> open the harness and the wires leading to the positive
> connection junction point which feads all the hot
> terminals on the relay block just fell right off!
...
> Anybody else have a problem like this?

Not like it, but related to headlights and wiring and
Blau...  When I replaced my burned out headlight a few
weeks ago, there was some slight charring around the
connector to the bulb.  I, too, did not fault the Blau
harness I have as I was running 80/100W bulbs.  When I
saw the charring, I replaced the bulbs with 55/60W (or
there abouts) bulbs.

I assumed the charring was due to excess wattage. Now
you have me wondering if it was due to excess resistance
due to corrosion.  If it wasn't such a pain to get to,
I'd check it at lunch.

Kent
'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy"