[V8] [urq] Headlight motors, type 44 ... wiring?

Sun Sep 28 19:16:28 PDT 2008

I would like to touch on something Scott mentioned below........

>> The v8 went to a vacuum operated switch, much simpler, but NLA...  Still
>> in search of one of those myself.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Scott J

 Is there a diagrahm of this? I'm getting everything to get my vacume motors working on my V8's Euros & would like to know how to figure it out.

 Thanx
Ron

--- On Sun, 9/28/08, Dave C <dconner at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave C <dconner at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [V8] [urq] Headlight motors, type 44 ... wiring?
> To: qshipq at aol.com, quattro at audifans.com, s-car-list at audifans.com, 200q20v at audifans.com, urq at audifans.com, v8 at audifans.com
> Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 9:58 PM
> Howdy folks,
> 
> I finally got everything buttoned back together today and
> road tested, etc
> so wanted to post the results, and say thank you to all who
> replied.  Bob
> Rosatto and Scott were right on with their description of
> how the switch amd
> motors work, and the wiring, etc.  There is no relay, and
> the switch has
> four positions.  I tapped the power wire into the low beam
> yellow wire close
> to the headlight switch on the steering column.  That's
> connected by a short
> wire over to the dashboard switch.  Having the factory
> wiring harness for
> the motors was an enormous helpl  Now everything's
> working as it should.
> 
> This began as a Euro light install, but I had the motors on
> hand so I just
> had to add them into the mix.  Then I remembered the single
> pass intercooler
> sitting in a box so had to install that too while
> everything was apart.
> Thankfully I remembered the air filter was due while things
> were apart, so
> that got replaced, plus a few other minor things.  Between
> all that and the
> usual distractions of life it took me til now to finish the
> job and get the
> 87 5ktq back on the road.  I don't know whether
> I'll be able to detect a
> difference in performance due to the intercooler, but
> there's no doubt the
> euro lights are a welcome upgrade.
> 
> Thanks to Bob R, Scott, Frank B, Jeff L, Jim P, Dave Head,
> Kneale, and all
> the rest who pitched in to share info and ideas.
> 
> Dave C
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >   On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:49 AM,
> <qshipq at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Dave
> >> I did a couple of these installs years ago.  There
> is no relay box in the
> >> system, it works pretty much how Bob R describes. 
> The black is the signal
> >> wire from the switch to the back of the motor. 
> The yellow is tapped into
> >> the low beam wire (low beam-on gives power to the
> switch black signal wire),
> >> the brown is ground.  IIRC, it wasn't much
> additional work at all.
> >>
> >> The v8 went to a vacuum operated switch, much
> simpler, but NLA...  Still
> >> in search of one of those myself.
> >>
> >> HTH
> >>
> >> Scott J
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Dave C <dconner at gmail.com>
> >> To: quattro at audifans.com; s-car-list at audifans.com;
> 200q20v at audifans.com;
> >> urq at audifans.com; v8 at audifans.com
> >> Sent: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 10:08 pm
> >> Subject: [urq] Headlight motors, type 44 ...
> wiring?
> >>
> >> Howdy all,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm installing eurolights and would like to
> include the motorized
> >>
> >> adjusters.  I have the euro lights, motors, wiring
> harness and switch so it
> >>
> >> all looks pretty straightforward.  The car is an
> 1987 5ktq, but I don't know
> >>
> >> what model year the harness came out of.  The one
> thing I'm hung up on is
> >>
> >> connecting this harness into the stock U.S.
> wiring.  Of course the Bentley
> >>
> >> wiring diagrams don't show this because this
> was a strictly euro feature
> >>
> >> AFAIK.  Maybe headlight motors came to the US on
> other models (maybe the
> >>
> >> V8?) but I don't know.
> >>
> >>
> >> The harness has a three point plug and I need to
> connect these 3 wires into
> >>
> >> the stock wiring somehow.  It has yellow (Y),
> brown (BR) and black
> >>
> >> (BK) wires.  I think BRN = ground, Y = power ...
> BK = I don't know.
> >>
> >>
> >> Could someone tell me the function of the BK wire?
>  What to connect these
> >>
> >> three wires to?
> >>
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >>
> >> Dave C
> >>
> >> Columbus,OH
> >>
> >> 89 100E
> >>
> >> 87 5ktq
> >>
> >> 87 5ks
> >>
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