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Hi I am in the process of a prem nosecone conversion and am stumped about the headlight wiring, I have no plugs in my loom to swap it over so it must be altered. My lights only have 2 terminals on them but my donor harness has 3 terminals for the low beam lights ?? Anybody done this yet that could shed some light on it for me ?
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I think the outside lights are both low and high beam. If you are fitting 150W 'aircraft landing' lights inners and high wattage outers, i'd use your existing low and high beam wires to drive relays, and then use the donor harness plugeed into the lights
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The HZ Premier/GTS fronts had a wierd arrangement for the twin headlights. The outer lights were low-beam only and the inners were high beam only! I think the Stato's were the same too.
Therefore, with the headlights on high-beam, you had your two out
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Low beam (outer) are permently on via the pull switch. You have to relocate the low beam wire from the diper switch directly to the pull switch. Then put a relay in the high beam wire and mount near the radiator suport panel etc. so the diper switch now o
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from what you say you have single filiment hz QH head lights and a earley wiring so asueming car is NOT NO A HZ that had factory twin headlights ditch the single filimemt low beam QH lights and get some good twin filimet QH hi/low head lights and you wiri
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Thanx Guys thats really helped, I have found a wiring diag and it all makes sense to me now...Just start from scratch with relays !
Thanx again
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