Hi guys,

I've fixed my problem.  Indeed, the white wire was what I wanted.  I was
quite confused.  Neither this, nor the yellow-and-black wire, go to the
dimmer switch.  Both run between the wand and the fuse box.

-Wes

Wesley Pegden wrote:

> Hi guys,
> I'm putting in relays for the headlights in my '84.  I'm experiencing
> some strange behavior, and am afraid I  have shorted something out (but
> maybe not, then again).
>
> To install the relays, I cut the low and high beam wires (on my '84,
> these are yellow-and-black and white-and-black, if I've done this
> right), between the headlight (dimmer) switch and the turn signal/high
> beam wand to the left of the steering wheel.  If I twist these wires
> back together, everything works.  If I hook them all up to the relays
> (which I believe are correctly grounded and powered) then only the high
> beams work (but they really work: i.e, they stay on, whereas with both
> of these wires cut, the high beams will flash when you pull the wand,
> but not stay).  If I run just the high beam wires through one of the
> relays, but twist the low-beam (yellow-and-black) wires together,
> everything works, REGARDLESS of which relay the white-and-black wires
> run through (Which is why I suspect the relays are okay).  On the other
> hand, in any configuration where the yellow-and-black wires go through a
> relay, I can't get the low beams to work.
>
> Other possibly strange  behavior:  To get the low-beams to work, I need
> to twist together both sets of wires, whereas for the high beams, just
> twisting together the high-beam (white-and-black) wires is enough.
>
> Have I perhaps used the wrong wires?  There's a white wire coming out
> the signal wand... should I have used that instead of the
> white-and-black wire?
>
> Thanks for any help, guys.
>
> -Wes
>