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Best friends ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,569 Joined: 4-February 03 From: Flagstaff, AZ Member No.: 231 Region Association: Southwest Region ![]() ![]() |
This is a 73, 2.0L. After changing the electrical part of my ignition switch, I think I must have shorted something because I've got a strange high/low beam behavior.
When I turn on the headlights they are on highbeam. I try to switch them using the stick, but nothing happens - no click or anything. I suspect that I blew the highbeam relay. So, which relay is which? I searched and found a topic that says the highbeam relay is the silver square one on the top of the fusebox. Is this correct? If so, would this part at Pelican be the replacement? 141-951-253-B-M5206 I can find lots of resources that identify which fuse goes with what, but I can't find anything for the relays on the top of the fusebox. I have 3 round ones in a row, then the square one, and an empty round one above that. What do they go to? Here's a rough diagram, looking from the top of the fusebox as if sitting in the driver's seat: O - Empty round relay O O O [] - Square, silver relay | | | --------------------------------- 3 Round relays So what do these go to? The picture in my Haynes manual doesn't have the empty round socket and it thinks one of the 3 round relay spots is used by a buzzer, so I doubt that it applies at all. |
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Not another one! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Benefactors Posts: 4,526 Joined: 1-March 04 From: San Mateo, CA Member No.: 1,743 ![]() ![]() |
The high/low beam relay is the cubical one on the left. Easy to tell since the high beams are white wires, and the low beams are yellow wires.
Figuring out what the others do is a matter of following the published wiring diagrams. Black wires are power switched by the ignition, as are red/white wires. Red wires are battery (unswitched) power. Browns are grounds. Knowing that, look for the two wires not in the above collection, and that will be the "switch" and the "switched" wires that connect to the dash switch or the thing being switched. These two will tell you (with a diagram) what that relay does. Colored wiring diagrams can be found on Pelican's site. You can generally use the '73 diagram for all of the later cars in most respects (there are some differences, but not too many). The '70-'72 cars are somewhat different, but there are dedicated diagrams for those cars on PP already. |
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