73 headlight issues, Lights pop up, won't turn on Options

[pastormacman]

So I searched and read through this thread:

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...eadlight++relay

But it didn't quite cover what I was looking for. But I did notice a couple of people asking if the car was a '73. Mine is a '73. But I didn't see anyone say why that mattered. Is there something specific about the '73 model that has headlight issues?

Anyway, here's my issue: With the battery connected and the ignition switch on, when I pull out the headlight switch, both lights flip up but neither lights up.

A little history: This is the same car that you all have been helping me get started in this thread:

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...eadlight++relay

Part of the problem this community helped me figure out was that my ignition switch was broken. So I replaced it with a new one. So I have a new, working ignition switch.

I thought that maybe the high beam/low beam relay had gone bad, so I bought a new one from Automobile Atlanta. Like you can see in the pic, it has five posts, and the description says that it fits 70-76 914. However, when I removed the old one from the car, it only had four posts and four wires connected. So I connected the wires to the corresponding posts on the new relay and left the fifth post empty.




After installing the relay, I still had the same problem: The lights flip up, but won't turn on.

Another monkey wrench: my turn signal stalk is broken. The internal mechanism flops around all over the place and the turn signal swings loosely. I know that the turn signal stalk is also the high beam/low beam switch so I'm wondering if that could cause the lights to not turn on.

What are your thoughts?

[pastormacman]

Ok, so things just got interesting...

I jumped the two terminals like what was described in that photo.



And as I looked at the pic, I realized the wires were not correctly attached. Yellow was going into 56b and white with blue was going into 56a. So I put them the way the diagram said.

I connected the battery, turned on the ignition, and pulled the headlight switch. Both lights lifted up but neither turned on. However, when I pulled the high beam lever, this time both headlights lit up. I checked the fuses and with the high beams on, both fuse terminals 1 and 2 gave me a test light. But with high beams off, I get no test light on fuse terminals 1 thru 4, on either side of the post.

So no power from switch/relay to low beams. But I do get power from switch/relay to high beams.

I hope that means I don't need a new switch.