To further complicate this .... when I started the engine this morning and
getting unerway, still on the BLM dirt road, I turned the headlights on
"just to check" and they worked fine.
Later in the day, I had the satellite radio on and saw another Van (about
'76 Westy), flashed my lights using the stalk and heard a buzzing or
crackling in the radio as long as the stalk was pulled. Did it twice and
thought to turn on the headlights and sure enough, the symptom had returned.

I have the headlights ground at the steel "firewall" just behind them up
front. I haven't changed the switch ground but may look into that.

When I installed the aux batter this time I ran a wire from the + to #3 on
the fuse block up front to run all the dash "stuff" from the aux batteries.
I took this tip from Mark Drillock some time back and AFAIK it is working
fine. Other than that, I haven't changed anything I can think of that would
contribute to the current anomaly?

From the parking lot at Bryce NP at Ruby's Inn.

Bob .... headed for Kodachrome Basin SP before it gets dark ... uncertain
cell connection but plenty of BLM land to camp on over there.
An aside: I left my campsite in a hurry this morning after hearing
semi-automatic firearm crackling not too far away. About 10 shots in very
quick succession.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:18 AM, <kayakjr@comcast.net> wrote:

> Bob,
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> I had just about the same thing.  My cure was the ground under the dash at
> the circular gounding connector.  The head light grounds went 2 into 1, and
> even though they looked fine, when I cut the terminal off, you could see
> corrosion. Crimped a female spade connenctor on each, put them back on -
> viola! light.  This happened with no warning BTW.
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