Re: 1986 4000S, Headlight switch

[Orin Eman <orin@wolfenet.com>]

> > Are you running higher-than-stock wattage headlight bulbs?  Stock bulbs
> > should not cause your headlight switch to fry.  The switch normally
> > runs warm, because there is a light bulb inside.

> Beg to differ...  There's a lot of power running through that switch on
> high beams, even stock.  Once the connections develop a little
> resistance to them, and they will eventually, you get lots of heat.  It
> took me three tries to find a switch that wasn't melted when I did my
> dashboard conversion.

I think Pat Martin found that it was the parking light contact that tended
to melt on those rotary headlight switches, taking the other contacts
with it... moral of story is to relay everything driven off that switch.

Orin.