i imagine that i can get to the bottom of this pretty quickly, but those of you with more experience might be able to point me in the right direction...

driving home at night. i turn off the ignition, then push the light switch in. the lights turn off and move down. and then the passenger's side light goes up. and down. and up. and down. and it won't stop. it's surprisingly anthropomorphic -- kinda cute, really.

anyhow, i pulled a wire from the headlight to get it to stop. any clue on where to look first?

thanks, n

Weak relay ?? Contacts bad on motor for headlight ??


B

my first thought was a relay, too. the wiring is very solid, very pro. i don't really want to f-ck w/ the motor... thanks

Hmmmmm....try the "TV Repairman" technique. While it's winking, lightly tap on the relay and see if it stops, if that doesn't do it, pull the relay, if that doesn't do it, call a priest

are you kidding? i called a priest well before i came to you guys.

these cars are voodoo

Had the same problem on my old 73. It was a bad relay. Just pop (remove screws) the cover off and swap the relays between motors. If it follows the relay then you know what your problem is.

- Garold

Mine did the same thing last night. Your right it is kind of cute. Disconnect battery before you touch anything around those lights. Ask me how I know?

Mine was also the relay....

just for the sake of redundant information... it was a bad relay for me too

so, if i understand you all correctly -- and i may not -- you're saying that it may be a relay?


thanks gentlemen... n

i'm not sure. but my guess is it might be the relay!


here's another good one for you guys:

1) whenever you use the blinker (either left or right)
the headlight on that side moves up/down at the blinker interval.

Q: what is wired wrong??


let's see how good you really are
Andy

The blinker is wired to the winker

that would be really cool!

Just to chime in, although this issue is normally a relay (echo echo echo), I recently had to replace one of the diodes on the wiring harness that connected the motor positioning sensor to the relay.

It took a while to find out what to replace, but once i knew it was easy and fixed my problem--which was that the light would come up, but never go down without me turning the popup-crank enough to get the motor to kick in and put it down the rest of the way.