Headlight/Dimmer Switch Problem? 1988

[billroth]

:eyerole I had to remove the headlight switch pull rod from the headlight/dimmer switch while installing a woodgrain trim kit. When I reinstalled the rod it slide in and snapped as if it locked in. The first time I pull the switch and nothing, found a blown fuze and replaced. I went to turn on the headlights again and the sidelights turn on and both motors (caps) rotate, but both headlights do not swing around nor do they illuminate. They worked before I took the rod out. The rod has three sides to it, so I took out the rod again and rotated it 120 degrees and reinserted it, trying all three possible positions, no improvement. Did I screw up the switch itself? If I did, why do both headlight motors and front sidelights operate. Am I missing a bad fuze or somewhere. I did replace the 15 amp fuse for the switch, is there another fuze for the headlight? :confused

 

[Ken]

From what I can read into this, it sounds as though the parking lights are coming on all the way around, while the headlamp buckets are not rotating into postion. Is this correct?

If that's the case, then it would seem to me that the rod is not fully in place and you're not pulling the switch into the headlamp postion, just the parking lamp postion.

The "snap" you heard may have simply been the first catch; there may be one more.

 

[nyernga]

You say the "caps" on the motors rotate but the buckets don't? Or do the buckets rotate and it's juts that the headlights don't illuminate?

Len

 

[Vettelt193]

I agree with Ken's post:


On a side note, if anyone else is doing this, you can take the knob off of the post easier than the post out of the switch. The knob is just held on by a pressure clip... it will come right off by loosening the pressure on the clip (small screwdriver from the back-side of the switch), then will slide right back on. this is hard to explain, but makes sense if you have one in your hand.

either way, good luck!

 

[I_R_DA_ONE]

I agree with Ken on this one