electrical questions...

[hammermachine]

I've never been good at electrical things. My K5 head lights flick on and off. They are also brownish. I bought a heavy duty wire harness from LMC and am attempting to replace the existing wiring and headlights. Unfortunatly the f*$king instructions are mostly in chinese. I think I need more wires and a on/off switch to hook into. Anythoughts?

 

[savagek5diesel]

check/clean all the grounds and connections, i know that there were a couple of ground wires on the passenger side lights that were causing some problems for me.

 

[fireplug]

Try cleaning all the connections at the lamp. Check the wiring, both power and grounds, for cracks bare wires etc. What do you mean by more wires, and a switch?

 

[hammermachine]

Electrical issues...

Thanks, I'll try to clean the contacts and check the wiring. The deadhead who sold me the K5 went mudding and the entire engine bay was/is still dirty. All four headlights are brown and dim out to nothing. I replaced one of the bulbs (thinking that was the problem) but they all still do it.

 

[diesel4me]

floor mounted dimmer switch???

If you have a floor mounted dimmer switch--its possible its wires and the switch itself is rusted to death..I've had to replace both the plug,switch,and a foot of wiring to get my headlights working again..parts stores sell a repair plug harness for them..

The headlight switch has a thermal curcuit breaker built into it--if the load is too heavy,it heats up,and the breaker clicks on and off..a short in the headlight wires can do this--so can splicing in a bunch of aftermarket off road lamps with no relay!...and the 3 prong plugs at the bulbs often turn to gangrene, and cause high resistance--you can buy new plugs cheep at parts stores--just snip and splice one wire at a time,so you wont mess up which one is high beam and low beam,and ground!..

 

[hammermachine]

No it's turn signal mounted one. It must be something else.

 

[hammermachine]

Thanks Guys

Thanks for the help, One can co contact cleaner and presto working headlights. Low and Highbeams. Thanks for the help.