Re: Debi's 1953 Patrician

Posted by Duane Gunn On 2014/9/17 14:01:09

Found the problem with my headlights going out. A circuit breaker on the back of the instrument panel was dead, so I replaced it with a circuit breaker from an instrument panel I had bought earlier. The dimmer switch was also bad and I bought a generic dimmer switch from NAPA. I then went for a spin to fill the gas tank and noticed the headlights were flickering. I forgot I put in Halogen headlights, because I had half a dozen 6V halogen headlights in the garage. I then found the original headlights and put them back in. The headlights no longer flicker. I was thinking of getting a 6V relay so the headlight switch would turn the relay on and the relay would turn on the headlights, so the original switch would not have that much current flowing through it. I do have a new wiring harness, so that was not the problem. I don't think the original headlight switch could handle the current of the halogen headlights.