Frank, I had a similar problem with the '63. It turned out to be
corrosion in the highbeam switch on the floor- no headlights at all one
day. Check it out but it sounds like your might be a bit more involved.
Dan Walters
'63 Sprite
'74 Midget
Brick NJ
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From owner-spridgets at autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-spridgets@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Frank Clarici
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 8:24 PM
To: Spridgets
Subject: Laws of Lucas
Can someone explain this problem before I rip out all my lights?
I went to switch on the headlights tonight, no dice. But my turn signals
lit up! On my Speedwell nose the turn signals are completely seperate
from the parking/headlights. Not even on the same circuit.
So parking lights come on fine but high or low beams light the front
turn signals only, no parking, no head lights.
(just the front, the rear end is fine)
So I trace the problem to bonnet wiring, the plug to the bonnet is fine
and tests correctly so it's not something under the dash or before the
bonnet.
But what I want to know is who stopped over and switched all my bonnet
lamp wires? They worked the other night and I didn't touch them. Tonight
it's headache city. Somehow I am feeding power to the ground wires of
the bonnet lamps. And it has to be inside a lamp cause I already
unpluged each wire. As soon as I plug in the ground wire, everything is
hot.
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