[V8] Re: Headlight switch

[Kneale Brownson]

Your problem well may be that the connector in the wiring harness to that
switch is contaminated at the point where you saw the meltdown on the
switch.  You cleaned up the contact stud there on the switch, but did you
do something to clean out the melted plastic that's inside the female
connector?  I got ours working again by finding some abraisive to run into
that connector (maybe rolled up emory cloth???) and then spraying an
electronics cleaner in there.  However, the lows sometimes still would go
out but come back on if I tapped on the top of the plastic surround.  The
real fix is to put in a new female connector to that stud.

At 08:10 PM 2/18/2004 -0500, Kent McLean wrote:
><george.fallot at verizon.net> wrote:
>> I finally got around to trying to fix my no low beam trouble on my 90
>V8.
>> I took apart the switch but didn't find anything wrong with it. I
>cleaned it up
>> anyway and put it back together. The only thing I found  was that the
>top
>> right pin on the connector had been "over" heated. I cleaned that up
>also.
>> However, I still had no low beams. I checked the fuses again and they
>were
>> ok. I did notice that they had no power . Is this because the 12 volts
>comes
>> from the switch? Anybody have any advice?
>
>The 12v should go through the fuse to the switch
>to the lights. The 12v and enough amps to light the
>lights goes through the switch, which is what kills it.
>When you get them working, relay the dang lights
>-- then the switch is used to trip the relay, which
>is what delivers the big current to the lights, thereby
>sparing the headlight switch.
>http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/headlight-simple.htm
>
>HTH,
>Kent
>
>
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