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Hey everyone thanks for any help you can give. I have a 66 coronet and am trying to track down a headlight delay relay. I’m using a Ron frances wiring kit. Will a 70 coronet relay work? Or are they too different. I can’t seem to find a 66 one.
In 2013, I finally gave in to a friend that kept bugging me to modify my car to use relays to trigger the headlights.
The car is a 1970 Charger with electric headlight doors.
I don't recall the exact wiring changes but he intercepted the wiring paths and added one relay each for low beams and...
Headlight switches have an internal self resetting breaker. This may be the issue.
There are switch rebuilder guys on eBay.
The bulkhead check is good advice.
I would get the high current path off the bulkhead and switch. @Crackedback has a fantastic plug and play relaykit that will increase...
Headlightrelaykits that are essentially plug and play.
There is a substantial increase in voltage at the headlight, increasing light output performance. Light output degrades exponentially with voltage input reductions. These kits also take headlight amp loads off the fragile bulkhead...
You may be right. I have improved my skills with soldering over the past few years.
In 2013, a car club member tried to help me put relays in my Charger. His efforts resulted in some really weird problems with the headlight doors and dimmer switch. It may have had to do with grounding of the...
...to back up the firewall connections
Upgrade to powermaster stock-looking one-wire alternator (to charge at idle)
Crackbacks headlightrelaykit
Been reading @Nacho-RT74 posts and he is pretty convincing that most high draw loads should come from the alternator side and not the battery side...
Roadlamps are the foglights on E body cars. They are not part of a standard HL relaykit. The OEM harness runs the markers/turns on your car.
My kit is standalone from the OEM harness and does not touch the bulkhead. No cutting or splicing anywhere. The OEM low beam headlight plug is used...
If this is the case, what is the fix? Is it the headlight switch leaking power? Does that mean I'd need to replace that switch?
I don't know if my headlight switch is hot to the touch. You wrote "...now keeps my headlights flickering on and off..." Did you mean that now it keeps the headlights...
I have "Crackedback" headlightrelay upgrade kit already installed, by the way. I did not notice any change in the lights or electrical from how it performed before the installation. Not saying it doesn't work, the brightness and behavior of my particular lights seem to be the same yo me.
I haven't done a mileage test yet. The last few days, I've been working on installing a headlightrelaykit made by FBBO member Crackedback. I had a few snags along the way but with some help, it all works as intended.
I did put in a clutch pedal UP-stop bumper.
It is an upper control arm...
Headlightrelaykits that are essentially plug and play.
There is a substantial increase in voltage at the headlight, increasing light output performance. Light output degrades exponentially with voltage input reductions. These kits also take headlight amp loads off the fragile bulkhead...
It was in the last place that I looked.
That phrase cracks me up. Of course it was. Once you find it, you quit looking.
I think I fixed it.
I wired in a Bosch relay and gave it another test.
I put terminal ends on it that allowed me to connect to the factory wiring without cutting the stock...
I suggested that the car is hunting for a ground and it is using the new harness to find one. It's not a ground issue with my system from what you wrote. This is a classic ground hunting situation similar to a marker light staying on when the switch is off.
This is the first and only 70...
...to make a couple of mods (ideas from other threads) to make the stock wiring more robust one of which is installing one of Rob's headlightrelaykits. I was planning to rebuild the stock alternator and while looking for rebuild kits I ran across the kit that the OP mentioned (except the 80...
Most LED light are not good. Bright doesn't mean much if it's sprayed all over the place.
I have customers that have a relaykit and GE nighthawks, some say they are better than a current vehicle headlight set up. Fancy or newer, doesn't guarantee better results. It's surprising how much...