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91camaro_rs · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:44 am Post subject: im having a headlight issue....

ok so been workin on my halo project, got it all hooked up with H4 halos are wired to parking lights and all is good except one thing....when the low beams are on the high beams are barely on, just enought to make the filament orange and it looks like they are turn signals, i cant find out why they wont go off.... also the hi beams were flickering on my way home, but i replaced the relay that i have my headlights wired too so that should be okay now, i just cant get the high beams to turn off when they are supposed to... any ideas?

Dewey316 · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:54 am Post subject:

I would check your wiring again. It sounds like you have something getting power when it shouldn't. I would start by checking to make sure you have the right pins connected to the right wires when you converted to the H4 pin's from the factory.

91camaro_rs · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:18 am Post subject:

i already checked the pins and they are all were they should be in order to have the hi/lows work at the right time, cause to change to H4 all you have to do is switch the tan wire with the green wire

aaron_sK · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:36 am Post subject:

91camaro_rs · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:44 am Post subject:

headlights are already on a relay, and i changed out the relay i had, and put a brand new one in... and im only using one, but my wiring looks really similar to that... so somehow the high beams have a tiny bit of power when they are not supposed to

aaron_sK · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:53 am Post subject:

You need two relays. One low and one high. How do you have it wired with only one?

91camaro_rs · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:24 am Post subject:

no idea but it works, i guess ill check all my wiring and then try a second relay. . . when i had the halos in the first time like a year and a half ago this didnt happen...

ill take some pics tomorrow to put up so i can show what i got goin on

chevymad · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:15 am Post subject:

Sounds like a bad ground/cross feed problem to me.

Al Hasse · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:25 am Post subject:

aaron_sK · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:37 am Post subject:

Al Hasse · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:43 am Post subject:

Hey now, when did I write that? Laughing

aaron_sK · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:56 am Post subject:

You wrote it via GIF background trickery. Razz

Al Hasse · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:06 am Post subject:

Guess that's what I get for not reading the entire article "borrowed" from other sources Embarassed

91camaro_rs · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:30 am Post subject:

ok im just gettin confused now, im gonna go take some pics and we'll go from there

ok so my low beams look like this looking from the FRONT of the car ( high beams look the same just without the tan wire...

left= black wire
top = tan wires
right= green wires ....or just look at this pic lol

driver side low beam lookin from front of car, black wire is there but the shadow from the flash makes it look invisible

high beam:

Passenger side low beam from rear of car

the relay:

wires that i spliced that go to the relay

and this is what the high beams are doing when they are supposed to be off

hopefully this helps clear stuff up

91camaro_rs · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:37 pm Post subject:

i just went and made sure all the connections were good and they were and the hi beams still come on

Al Hasse · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:44 pm Post subject:

From your pictures, I think you need to switch the green and black wires. The diagram I posted shows the back of the light, not the front of the connector. Switch the green and black and you should be OK, that's how mine are wired. I repinned all 3 wires, not just the brown and green ones.

Not that it matters now, but the inner pair should have the wires switched also, then if you could jump the unused connector to the green wire, you'll be amazed at how bright your high beams are. Or just get a hi/lo headlight socket from NAPA or Auto Zone and switch the black and green wire from how they are now, then connect the green one also to the 3rd spot.

aaron_sK · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:33 pm Post subject:

Looks like they're running the relay for the highs only. No no no...

When I rewired the Monterey I ran new 14ga wire from relays to the lights, and powered the relays with 18ga fusible links off the battery distribution bar.

The lights were original FoMoCo sealed beams (had the old-school Ford stamp on them and everything). They are incredibly bright now. Way better than any other vehicle I have ever owned. Personally I think that the wiring has way more of an impact than the bulbs or lights.

Al Hasse · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:39 pm Post subject:

chevymad · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:47 pm Post subject:

Can't tell, but you can do it with one relay. Some relays have both a normally closed and normally opened circuit. So if you hook dims to one, and brights to the other it will switch back and forth. So it is possible.. but not likely lol.

Al Hasse · Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:17 pm Post subject: