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Have you wired them correctly? With the globe's base facing you, earth is on the left, low is up in the middle and high is on the right. If you've swapped the earth and high pins you would get normal high beams but the 2 working lows would earth via the 4 main filaments. Shorting the extra lows would provide a 3 filament earth path per high beam filament so brighter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sitec
I also think , possibly, on all four globes, you have got the earth wires transposed with either a dip or main wire. The electricity is entering a filament but instead of passing to earths after that it is having to pass through another filament.
To avoid wrecking your wiring. I would, with all due respect suggest
Remove all of the lamps from their sockets. Use 3 short pieces of wires with Male crimps on one end and females on the other to permit you to extend the lamp wires out of the plug and swap the around on the lamp. Connect up only one of the lamps, like this, that is doing both Dip and Main.
now Simply try out all the permutations of connections and you will find the right ones.
You can't do any harm unless you short the wires .
If your worried about the earth wire at the lights, arrange a voltmeter to measure between the battery earth terminal and the earth wire on the lights.
With the headlights on, there should be no voltage reading between those two points and if there is a voltage shown, move one of the meter probes to the next joint in the current path until you find where the fault is.
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Thanks guys.. :) JayboRover also suggested a wire on a globe wrong... Having thought about it, I should have checked each light plug and not just relied on wire colours.. Each light came with a pre wired globe socket.... and stupidly I assumed they were right... Two of the 7" lights went back as they were faulty!!!! So there's a fair chance the wires are incorrect too!!!!
Not an earthing issue on the 101 :p
Bumper looks awesome!
sounds good mate, 4dipped beam is legal in UK, dunno about your side of the earth lol
Well, with a long journey looming, this weekend is being spent checking things over, and sound proofing. First job was to remove the vacuum pump and re seal the rear cover as over the last few months its deposited its oil all over the front of the engine. That fixed and it was time for a refit and test. All good!!
And onto the soundproofing.. I've tested several materials for flammability, and alarmingly all the cheep $70 rolls of under bonnet soundproofing catch fire quite quickly!!! Even some multi layer silver backed 20mm thick stuff we have at work will burn with relative ease. The material I've ended up using is 6mmm thick mud flap rubber. Its durable, seems to have great soundproofing qualities and surprisingly wouldn't light when I held a lighter against it!!!! It just powderised. Here's a pic of the blanket I've shaped and fitted between the engine and us!!!! With the cover in place and the token blanket on top, its actually reasonably quiet on the road. At 100kph you can chat with the person in the left seat, so Im happy with it!!!
Tomorrow it'll be prop greasing, transfer case and diff oil changes, all other levels checked etc. load the camping gear etc and fuel up!! I have to do it all tomorrow, as Im headed to the top of SA Tue/Wed delivering a tractor!!
looks good mate! you cant talk at 100kph in a standard 101 so youve done well ;)
looks proper mate! quite envious haha
I went to a house insulation seller and bought a sheet of fibreglass material for $40. It is like a board about 1.5" thick - it is not fluffy like roof insulation. I lined the inside of the engine cover and the gearbox cover. I just glued it on and then glued aluminium sarking material to the insulation and used aluminium tape to seal the edges.
Works great.
Garry