1973 headlights on with hide aways down-SOLVED Options

[HalfMoon]

Howdy everyone.
Still working out the gremlins on my v-8 converted 1973.
The PO had the headlight system out and in order to make the car street legal here I have to make them work. The other day I installed everything except wiring up the hide away motors. After a few false starts I managed to get both the headlights working.
Today I wired up the motors and while they work....they work wrong, lol. When I pull the light switch out to make the headlights go on, the hide aways close. I'm color blind (no, really I am) but I'm pretty sure I wired em up correctly using my LE project as a visual aid.
Any ideas on what I did wrong?
Thanks all :-)



Evidently the passenger motor had a problem. I switched it out for another motor I had and it now works correctly.
I wonder if those motors are rebuildable? Hate to toss the bad one if I can make it work again. It won't open.
Glad I had a spare around.
Still working on the wiper problem but pretty sure I have either a bad ignition switch or a bad fuse block. No power at position eight which powers up the wipers amongst several other things.

[luskesq]

Had the same problem with mine and apparently the control arm retaining nut was loose enough to allow the arm to move about 180 degrees off. Positioned it correctly, tightened the nut and that took care of the problem. Another good discussion is found at: http://www.pelicanparts.com/techarticles/9...dlamp_motor.htm.

It also has a brief description of how the relay works, from which you can test the relay (with ohm meter) to confirm it is working properly.

Good luck.