Headlights - what color wire feeds switch?
:confused2:Help. 85 GLHT. I'm sitting d still isn't really fixed, just moved further down the honey-do list (I think it's on page 8 or 9 somewhere).
own with a good book - FSM - to figure this thing out. Lost the headlights/tailights, dome light, radio and I dunno what all else. Car runs but no lights? Recently had to replace alternator that was fried by a shorted battery which also took out the orange 20 gauge fusible link. When that fusible link went it took the ignition and the dash lights but the head lights/tailights still worked. A day after I replaced the alternator and battery and the fusible link, the headlights go out? WTF?:confused:
Had the dash/lights switch out. When I jump around whatever feeds the switch, the lights all work. Pulled the bulkhead connector, found nothing.
Just now I'm studying the FSM's "Fuse Application Chart" page MZ page 1 for L bodies of the "LM/Z Wiring Diagrams" section - OK, I get that. But . . . I'm also looking at MZ page 20 "Head Lamp Switch" and I confess, I can't read the diagram, can't figure where (what color wire) the power is coming in to the switch on?
Re: Headlights - what color wire feeds switch?
There are two power feeds to the headlamp switch. L1 feeds:
- the part of the switch that powers the headlights
- fuse 6 for radio, dome light, cig lighter, etc.
- fuse 7 for the horn, which also goes to the headlamp switch for all the other lighting
Sounds like you lost L1. It's a grey fusible link.
Re: Headlights - what color wire feeds switch?
Thanks Russ -
A SoCalTM friend - Butch Suppe - figured it out today for me while I built/installed baffles in his 2.5 CB pan. The black wire (L1) that comes off of the grey 18 gauge fusible link had pushed out/fallen out of the bulkhead junction block. Apparently I pulled it nearly loose a few days earlier when I replaced the orange fusible link and then it took a few miles to vibrate completely loose.
Now for the burnt out windshield wiper motor . . . and the cal, and the . . . .