It sounds to me as though you have a bad grounding somewhere. I would do
the following:
1. Connect two long wires to either a low amperage battery charger or
the positive and negative terminals of the battery. With these cables
and test light, problems can be traced easily.
2.Connect the positive wire to the center of the offending light then
connect the ground wire to the side. This will tell if the bulb works or
not.
3.Next put the bulb in the holder and repeat by attaching the positive
wire to the pigtail of the holder and the negative to the body of the
light fixture. This will tell if the receptacle is O.K.
4.Next, try powering it with the positive only to the pigtail to see if
the ground to the car works. If all is well, go to the first junction in
the harness and try applying power there.
5. Use the test light to work your way along the wire testing for power
as you go.
|-----Original Message-----
|From: owner-tigers@autox.team.net
|[mailto:owner-tigers@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jim Boynton
|Sent: 09 July 2003 19:48
|To: Tigers
|Subject: headlights
|
|
|Listers,
|
| I've been running the Tiger for a year with the low beam
|right headlight out. I really don't do much night driving with
|the Tiger so it wasn't much of a problem. Yesterday I was over
|to Robert Jaarsma's looking at a couple of junk Alpines he had
|picked up and getting a couple of parts. He gave me a couple
|of the headlights off the Alpine and we tested them and they
|worked fine. Well today I decided to replace the headlight and
|after doing so turned the lights on. Immediately the replaced
|headlight began to smoke inside the sealed beam so I quickly
|shut the lights off. I decided it was simply bad light after
|all. So I replaced it with the second one from Robert and the
|same thing happened. I put the original one back on and it
|didn't smoke but it seem to be "somewhat blacken" inside (is
|that a word??? And was it always like that and I didn't
|notice). Meanwhile the left works fine (high and low). The 2
|from Robert is the correct Sealed Beam 6012 12V same as the
|one being replaced. So does any one have any idea what the
|problem is on the right side?
|
|Jim
|
|