Bingo on the relay! Jacob, are you running sealed beam replacement halogens or after market lights with H4 or a similar high output bulb? Your system should be able to handle the replacement halogens. I would look at your bulkhead connector first for corrosion and overheated connectors.
This is right along the same line of putting a 100 amp alternator on our cars, as they get older the wiring system degrades and we task it with heaver demands than they were designed for, something will fail eventually. You were lucky that your car did not self-destruct.
Herb
1954 DeSoto Firedome Estate Wagon 276 HEMI
1956 Plymouth Belvedere 361 4-Sale
1959 Coronet 326 Poly
1961 Belvedere Custom Suburban Wagon 318 Poly
1961 Dodge Dart Pioneer Wagon 318 Poly
1963 Fury 2D/HT 7.0L
1963 Sport Fury Convertible 361
1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst 440
1979 Dodge Aspen R/T Sport Wagon 360
1999 Durango SLT 5.9L
2008 SRT-8 Magnum 6.1L
St. Louis, MO.
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Date: 4/1/2012 5:26:15 AM
Subject: Re: Lights
Your switch has a built in circuit breaker. When the switch has too much of a draw it will shut off the lights for a short time, then they come back on. So either you have a short in the wires, or the new headlights are making too big of a draw on the system. when you turn on the Brights it will turn on all 4 lights. In an old system it can cause to over load a bit with the new high powered bulbs and put a strain on the old circuit breaker.
The best fix for this is to put your headlights on a relay system, you can hide it, nobody will know it's there and it takes all the stress out of the stock system.
If you did not damage your headlight switch with the overload the car will be fine with the new relay system. If not you will have to get a new headlight switch. Easy enough to get
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Jacob Fox
<imfast101@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey guys, on my 64 880, I was driving last night, and all the sudden my lights kindve flickered and went out. Dash lights stayed on, but headlights and taillights did. I would push switch in and pull back out and theyd flicker, then after about a few seconds, I pushed it in and pulled back out and it was fine. Hmm. I had turned my brights on for a little while prior to this, I notice all four lights come on when I turn on brights, is it supposed to? Also, I got some new halogen bulbs installed, does that have something to do with it? Thanks!!
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