CohPC

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Had a search and cant find anything related to this so maybe some of the experts on here could help.

Horn and flash full beam stopped working, before paying out on new stalk sprayed with contact cleaner and horn and flash works again , happy days.

But now when i put headlights on and then put full beam on the headlights go out completelty and im left with side lights, turn main beam off headlights come back on (flash main beam works properly - headlights stay on.

wiring short? earth issue? stalk issue? or just never drive at night on an unlit road?
 
Sounds like a bad connection. Either in the wiring connected to the stalk or the brass contacts in the stalk itself. Try removing the spade connections one at a time and clean the male and female connections. Any problem with electrics on series can usually be traced to bad earths, often earth connections that arent readily obvious to the fault.

Col
 
hopefully you can't change too much on the stalk, he says with a naive understanding of what people can do to 40 year old cars
 
Iirc investigating my stalk contacts full beam flash contacts main and dip beam together so it could be the live side of full beam contact that's dodgy.

It's almost always the contacts in the stalk, to say its a primative set up is talking it up.
 
Like REME when they have loads of yellow cable lying about :confused: o_O:oops:
ah the old "it's the wrong colour wire but I'll put the right colour insulating tape on it so people know what it ...oh the pubs open I'll put the tape on tomorrow.... sod it i know what it is no need to bother
 
ah the old "it's the wrong colour wire but I'll put the right colour insulating tape on it so people know what it ...oh the pubs open I'll put the tape on tomorrow.... sod it i know what it is no need to bother

Every single wire rear of the cab in my ambulance is yellow!

Whip yer stalk apart, it's easy enough to figure out what's supposed to happen and what isn't happening.

I'd suggest throwing it away but the new pattern ones are worse
 

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