Re: IML: annoying '68 headlight switch

["Hailey (Morgan) Moore" <materialgurl@xxxxxxxxx>]

hello

I have had some luck fixing the headlight switches, by taking them
appart by carefully bending the little tabs on the side enough to get
the bottom cover off, and then cleaning everything up inside, and
re-packing with electrical grease. I removed the breaker that is
located inside the switch, as it is the cause of most of the problems
I find. Once the switch is all cleaned up , you usualy can bend the
tabs enough with a small hammer and a punch to make them hold the
bottom on again. If that doesn't work clamp it on, and then use some
good epoxy or something like polyurathane glue to hold it securely
togeather. Then install the switch with a couple of relays for the
high and low beams so it only has to carry the current for the relay.
This worked great on my 67.

Has anyone else tried this?

-Hailey


On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 01:45:27 EST, Jkelly808@xxxxxxx <Jkelly808@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
> I'm familiar with the world-renowned glitchiness of the headlight switch on
> '67s and '68s. I guess I've been living on borrowed time -- with the
> exception of a few times when they went out on me I've been able to get home
> at night by jiggling the switch and saying my prayers. (The brights have
> never worked reliably, despite a new floor switch). 
> But in the past few days the lights go out after a couple of miles and no
> amount of switch-jiggling will get them back on. 
> I've kept my eyes open for a replacement switch and even stopped by Lowell
> Howe's place when I was in California -- no luck. 
> So what do I tell the guy at Wayne's Auto Electric to do -- rig some kind of
> Rube Goldberg under-dash bypass switch? 
> With aloha, 
> Jim Kelly 
> Honolulu 
> '68 LeBaron 
> '71 LeBaron


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