seattlejester

Found a set of the stepped versions, but I'm guessing that's not what you wanted. I know I've seen the slanted ones around here, they were too small so I never gave it a second chance.

So when I tried to fix the switch above it disintegrated on me (probably the cause for a few headlight failures). So I hard wired the headlight (RW I believe) and wired it to the ground (black wire). Unfortunately this didn't do anything. So I kept tracing and went through the right hand combination switch. Took it apart and got to the rocker assembly. Three things caught my eye. 1. The contact patch was blackened. 2. The brass rocker wasn't sitting straight. 3. The spring loaded nubbin was sitting at different heights with respect to each rocker. So I grabbed a set of pliers and squeezed the holding points to flatten them out and expand them. Cut little bits of wires and stuffed them into the cap to raise the heights of the nubbin. And used a blade to clean away a bit of the blackened patch. Put it back together, and low and behold, headlights . Now off to do the headlight relay mod. Thank you all! I know I wasn't the clearest with my problem, but I really couldn't and wouldn't have found the wire in question without your assistance.

Sorry I know I'm not being the clearest. But I just checked as the linked thread said, and connecting the battery directly to the fuse supplying the headlight, provides headlights! So I'm on the hunt for the ground wire in question. From what I understand, and what the voltages are telling me, the headlights ground through the turn signal stalk. Specifically this black wire in the middle? Tracing that wire brings me to this switch, which I'm pretty sure is the headlight/highbeam switch. The contact in the middle seems to be about ready to fall off, is this the culprit in question? Or is this switch just in charge of highbeams alone?

Despite all those missing parts, everything is grounded as it should be. Tracing the circuit I come up with this diagram, note I went a little overboard tracing the ground wire. The problem is that I have power, but it drains. The battery has more than enough amperage with the trickle charger, I checked by running the alternator, and the trickle charger charges faster than the alternator at high drill speeds. I found this post, http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/thread643.html which indicates a faulty ground on the combination switch, but I'm not detecting any voltage from what I think are the grounds. Anyone know where the wire in question from the previous post is?

Hello folks, I was hoping to find some help with getting my headlights to turn on. Right now I'm just testing the wiring harness, so there is no motor in the car, however the starter and alternator are wired into the engine bay, and the battery is on a trickle charger at~11-12volts. 11/1971 240z. No dome light No door ajar switches No door buzzer No rear side marker No rear hatch heater No rear speaker No antenna No radio No heater blower or heater controls The PO had installed an aftermarket radio, but I'm pretty sure I sorted all that out. I've checked the headlight and the connecting harness by wiring them directly to the battery so that portion works. When placed on the headlight switch, all the dash lights, side markers, and brake lights turn on as they are supposed to. The voltage at the front of the harness is a very dwindling voltage. Sometimes at 11v sometimes it goes down to 0.15 volts. Even when the high beam is engaged, the voltage from 11 volts or so drops almost down to 0 once the headlights are connected, when this voltage drops to 0, the blue high beam light on the speedo turns off. Voltage at the fuses are 11-12 volts across, but also experience the same draining voltage when anything is wired inline. I've tried and trace the wiring diagram as best as I could. Do these symptoms speak to anyone?