I've had nearly everything fail in my electrics, including the headlight
switch simply falling apart when depressed. However, the sneakiest fault was
in
those dozens of wonderful "Lucar" connectors--the little rubber-coated
in-line connections. One of my failures was simply that one--or more--of
these
connectors had simply fallen apart and no longer carried electricity. Another
time, they were corroded to the point of no longer functioning. Don't bother
to clean them, as they are, first of all, cheap, and second are so old they
probably will crumble before long.
Save yourself tons of future hassles and get a couple dozen of these
things--don't forget about 4 or 5 double connectors--and replace every single
connector on your car. Use that electrolite lubricant, too.
The headlights have some connectors under the horizontal metal support
immediately behind the grille, and these are very likely where any trouble of
this
sort starts.
Jay Donoghue
72 B-GT
66 Mustang
In a message dated 11/9/2005 10:05:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
sumton@sbcglobal.net writes:
it's night, and i can't drive the car ;-(
in the last few weeks i replaced the ignition coil, dist cap and rotor, and
plug wires. i'm sure that is what caused the headlights to quit working!
either that, or when i unscrewed the fuse box and that thing next to it (can
someone *please* tell me what it is and what it does???) to clean under
them.
anyway, enough sniffling.
the parking lights work, and if i pull on the "flash" lever, the brights
come on.
should i buy a new switch, or go the laborious route of wire
troubleshooting? is there an easy way to test the switch?
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