Dim Headlights

Pasta Power · #1 (**permalink**) 03-05-2018, 01:47 PM

Studebaker53, Thank you so much! for replying that was my problem all along, I've lived with it for many years. I changed the wires on my headlight plug and there working correctly now. Now onto my next gremlin the wiper motor, I have to do some research but when I needed to use them last year they were all but useless, barley going back and forth, and the park does not work just have to turn them on and off to get them in the down position.

Thank you again.
Mike

indianamoon · #2 (**permalink**) 03-05-2018, 02:10 PM

When I got my car, pretty much nothing electrical worked as it should. Turned out to be the battery cable ground to the frame in the rear, and the front ground from the frame to the engine. Some dipstick somewhere (not me) bolted on the cables without cleaning off the paint and applying electrical joint compound.

studebaker53 · #3 (**permalink**) 03-05-2018, 06:29 PM

Pasta Power,
The bad parking of the wipers...just get used to them not a big deal. If the wipers are slow, the cables MUST be in a conduit tubing and not kinked at all. The wipers could be slow because the lubricant in the tubing and cable is drying up or had none to begin with. It is a bastard of a job unless you pull the dash but sounds like a lube job should help. Also that wiper motor draws a lot of current so a good ground on that too.

HI Cobra · #4 (**permalink**) 03-05-2018, 07:15 PM

On my CR and my Kirkham I just time turning off the power to stop them when
down. That I can live with, no problem, and have needed to use the wipers maybe 2 or 3 times since I have had them, and that was in Hawaii with the CR
where the weather can change very quickly. Been lucky in Texas so far.