Tonight I stopped and picked up my date, jumped back in my truck started it
up and the headlights wouldn't come on.
Everything else worked including all the dash lights.
I checked the fuse under the hood (visual inspection only) and everything
seems fine.
Anyone know what the problem is?
I've also seen this truck start up and run fine, but nothing electrical
worked, lights, lighter dash lights, turn signals, nothing. I turn it off
and restart it and it's fine. It has done this twice now.
LSBH!!!!
A lot of vehicles, including my 87 DAK, have a circuit breaker built into
the headlight switch. This is because the high beams sometimes draw too much
current themselves, so the circuit breaker pops but everything else works and
all you have to do is switch to low beams until the circuit breaker resets. If
this happens a lot then you probably have some other problem that should be
corrected before it shuts down your whole system. Last summer my high beams
went out like this, didn't have an oppurtunity to use my highs again for about
a month and guess what? I didn't have any high beams. Checked the wiring, all
OK. Checked the bulbs and both highs were burned out. Replaced both and the
first time I turned them on high they burned out instantly. If I had been
paying attention to my gauges I would have seen the voltmeter pegged on the
high end. A $20 mistake, The voltage regulator was bad and the alternator was
probably putting out 30 volts at idle. Why the low beams never burned out, or
a fusible link didn't let go I'll never know.
Jack Collins........Older than Old. Pine Island, Florida ----
Perrysburg, Ohio ----Coldwater, Michigan
87 DAK LE with 225,000+ miles. 98 DAK SLT CC with 4,000+
miles.
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