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Headlight motors.... relay or not?
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:26 pm
by ian65
anyone know if the headlight lift and drop function is controlled by a relay and if so, where it is?
Re: Headlight motors.... relay or not?
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 9:00 am
by 666widebodiedride
Hi Ian have been looking a spare for FB's on the bay for ages and our overpriced freind at a certain breakers is listing this item 201412880132 as the headlamp retra retractor relay hope this is of help.
Martin.
Re: Headlight motors.... relay or not?
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 12:13 pm
by ian65
thanks Martin.... that one's for a FD but I'm presuming the FB will have a similar item somewhere.... I've got a box full of FB relays but it's difficult to identify them once they are off the car.
Re: Headlight motors.... relay or not?
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 3:58 pm
by codge
I'm away abroad at the moment Ian or I'd get under the bonnet. Also I didn't pack my Haynes diagrams......dooooh!
But if you remember the thread about Mello Yello getting it's headlight upgrade when it lived at Santa Pod:-
I'm vaguely remembering that when it went up in power above 60 watt bulbs it had to be relayed. So that makes me think it didn't have a relay (or relays) before.
Also I've had a quick look at wiring diagrams on here (very difficult with slow as snail downloads).It seems to be direct wiring as suspected.
Dave
Re: Headlight motors.... relay or not?
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 4:31 pm
by ian65
was that just the illumination or the motors as well Dave?
Re: Headlight motors.... relay or not?
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:49 pm
by codge
It looks like the motors are directly powered. They have inbuilt limit/control switches but nothing shown external that I can see.
So I would assume direct wiring with no relay.