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05-15-2014, 10:16 PM
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Location: Horton AL.
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headlight
what would cause the right to work on bright and dim but the left side doesent work on dim. I have changed the headlight but have the same problem. Do the headlight feed from drivers side to the passenger side?
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05-15-2014, 11:28 PM
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Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma
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Re: headlight
Yes it goes from the drivers side to the passenger. Sounds like a bad connection. Do you have a meter to check for volts at the connector?
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05-16-2014, 10:25 AM
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Location: Smyrna TN
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Re: headlight
If you have some spray contact cleaner, spray the (wiring harness side) plug. With it disconnected of course:-)
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05-16-2014, 11:24 AM
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Re: headlight
I had similar issues, but only had high beam on one side. Wound up playing around wiggling wires and plugs and found the one headlight connector was getting a bad connection. I tried to clean it and bend the contacts inside a little, but it didn't help and I wound up breaking the plug.
Got 2 parts store plugs, spliced them in and problem solved.
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05-16-2014, 05:14 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Rohnert park, CA
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Re: headlight
My truck was doing the same thing. I replaced my high beam foot switch and it fixed the problem
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05-16-2014, 07:24 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
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Re: headlight
I had a similar issue as well, I removed the plug at the back of the headlight and used some sandpaper on the male prongs of the headlight. Pluged it back in and it works fine.
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05-16-2014, 08:39 PM
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Re: headlight
when i first got my truck the only headlights that worked were the high beams. looked over the wire and by the fuse block the low beam wire had a hole burned in it. ran a new wire from the dimmer to a better spot on original wire and they then worked.
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05-16-2014, 09:08 PM
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Re: headlight
My right headligt just stopped working one day. Pulled the headlite, bench tested it and it worked. I cut the old connectors off, soldered and heat shrunk new ones on and that cured the problem.
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05-18-2014, 10:22 PM
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Join Date: May 2014
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Re: headlight
I appreciate all the feedback and I will post what I do that fixes the problem.
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05-19-2014, 08:01 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Tucson, AZ USA
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Re: headlight
Check the headlamp plug ground wires behind the battery box on the radiator bulkhead. They can corrode, get chewed by packrats or just work loose.
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