69 Headlight Door Relay Quest.

["jsadowski" <jsadowski@xxxxxxx>]

The relay is above the parking brake assembly & you practically have to stand on your head to change it. I bought a new one & when I was wiggling the connector on the old one, the doors closed. So I thought just cleaning the contacts was all that was needed. After spending nearly 2 hours on a hot day doing this, it worked fine. About a week later, it stopped working again & had to go through the process again & install the new relay.About 7 years later & the doors are still working with no problems.

  Someone that knows how to read the build date should be able to tell you when your car was built One thing I under stand is that the early cars didn't have front headrests available, so if your car has them, it would be a later build car.

John

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Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 4:16 PM

Subject: Re: IML: 69 Headlight Door Relay Quest.

In a message dated 5/22/03 8:59:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, lblais@xxxxxxxxx writes:

My headlight doors have decided to stay up no matter if the lights are on or not.
I am assuming that it is the headlight door relay misbehaving.
There are 2 listings in the parts manual
one for cars built prior to 12/9/68
and one after 12/9/68.
How does one tell which it is?
Where is the relay located physically?
Any help appreciated.

I am having the same problem with my 69.  The manual indicates that the relay should be mounted on the parking brake mechanism, but I do not see one there on my car.  Somebody on the list indicated they thought it was on the passenger side behind the glove box, but my car is in storage and I haven't had time to get it and look further.  This would be a good possibility as I disconnected all relays on driver side and still had up power to headlight doors with key on.  I hope to get to this next week if it ever stops raining here.

John -- Atlanta