From: Wally Plumley [wplumley@avana.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 12:41 PM
To: 928
Subject: [928] Re: headlights not popping up.

At 11:15 AM 3/21/00 +0000, Andrew Lundy wrote:
>It's on the passanger side of the engine bay(between the motor and the
>silicone resevior).  Attached to the bar that goes across to raise/lower
>the lights.  Some of them have a small cover on them hiding the manual
>crank!!



Perhaps a different description might help get the headlights up -

Look for a round cylinder (about the sixe of a small drink can) mounted 
almost vertically  in front of the radiator/condenser. Pull the rubber boot 
off the upper end, exposing a round notched knob. Turn the knob until the 
headlights come up.

Although, if your headlights won't come up, the first thing to look at is 
the link that drives the lights. Look in front of the radiator and find the 
round bar that runs across the car. Look near the right end (as you face it 
- left side of the car) and find the vertical link that hooks the drive 
motor to the round bar. This link should be retained by two E-clips. If the 
clips come off, the link can fall off. By the way, it is a very good idea 
to check these clips pretty often. If the wrong one falls off, you can 
drive the link thru the condenser or the radiator ($$$! - plus a tow!).

Wally Plumley
928 Specialists



From: Wally Plumley [wplumley@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 11:02 PM
To: walt; 928oc@list.928oc.org
Subject: Re: [928OC] Head lights
At 11:18 AM 11/29/00, walt wrote:

  Need help! 
   
  The head lights in my 1983 come up normally but, only come on 
  about one out of 5 or 6 times.  I have tried resetting the relay 
  and tapping on it.  There must be a switch some place that tells 
  the relay that the lights are up. 
  Can anyone help. 


The "switch" is a rotating copper segment inside the headlamp gearbox. 
The electric motor rotates the gearbox that drives the bellcrank that 
actually moves the headlamp bar. The copper segment rotates with the 
bellcrank. It has cut-out segments that cause the motor to stop at the 
right spot, and others which enable/disable the headlamp illumination.

The signals are sent to/from the electronic relay on green/yellow, 
white/black and brown/red wires.

Possible causes for your problem include:
Poor contact between the wipers and copper segment inside the gearbox.
Poor connection/broken wire on one of the three wires.
Poor connection inside the main fuse panel (terminals N8, N7, N6 or the relay socket).
Bad headlamp relay.

Wally Plumley
928 Specialists