Hi Clay:
This is the reason for the head light upgrade. That is, putting a couple
relays in the headlight system so ALL the current goes to the lights, and
the switch acts like a switch INSTEAD OF A RELAY. The problem is the
headlight switch. It's shitty. Badly engineered and when it gets
hot....well, you know the rest. My '91 Westy has done the same thing on
several occasions. My initial "fix" was to run without the brights so as not
to heat up the switch. You'll find the "fix" at:
http://members.aol.com/Fkc43/mechanic.htm
That's Frank Condelli's site. A bunch of really great information there.

Bob Stevens
'87 Syncro Westy

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----Original Message Follows----
From: Clay Perry <Cmpbiker@AOL.COM>
Reply-To: Cmpbiker@AOL.COM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Out go the lights Yikes!
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 21:01:30 EDT

Vehicle is a 87 Weekender

So a week ago as I was blasting towards Lake Powell for a weeekend of
debauchaery, it was past Midnight, cruising around 75 when I dimmed the
lights and- BAM- no headlights! I pulled back on the dimmer lever and the
high beams came on,. If I held the lever back in "flash" position I had
lights otherwise I was in stealth mode, disconcerting.  I cruised that way
until I could find a side road. I pulled off took a deep breath. I switched
the lights off and on and they came back on, no problem. Is there a circuit
breaker somewhere I don't know about? So far no problems, everything works
fine.

P-Mail me for the "wall-o-mud" story from the rain storm that night.

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