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Recently my head lights began to flicker on my '62 Chevy C10 and I got pulled over for it. Any suggestions as to the likeley suspect of the problem?

My 63 chev Belair used to have the same problem. The solution (for me) was to replace the headlight relay witha good quality bosch unit. Fixed it all up and made the lights a heap brighter as well. As a note I have seen some early chevs with no relay at all, if your is like that addiing one realy would be an awesome idea. This would then utilise the old headlight cct only for relay activation voltage.

Andy

Originally posted by gherkin350
My 63 chev Belair used to have the same problem. The solution (for me) was to replace the headlight relay witha good quality bosch unit. Fixed it all up and made the lights a heap brighter as well. As a note I have seen some early chevs with no relay at all, if your is like that addiing one realy would be an awesome idea. This would then utilise the old headlight cct only for relay activation voltage.

Andy

sounds like the body is not grounded. if the ground is having to go through the motor mount to get to the head lights, while you are driving down the rd. the motor moves and breaks the ground and that's why your lights are flickering. ground to the motor, to the chassis, and to the body. the head light relay is in the head light sw., don't think you need 2 of them. its a lot of things it could be. but check the grounds first.

Originally posted by lt1s10
sounds like the body is not grounded. if the ground is having to go through the motor mount to get to the head lights, while you are driving down the rd. the motor moves and breaks the ground and that's why your lights are flickering. ground to the motor, to the chassis, and to the body. the head light relay is in the head light sw., don't think you need 2 of them. its a lot of things it could be. but check the grounds first.

yes had this happen to me on my goat no ground on the inerfenders to the frame

Originally posted by pat mccarthy
yes had this happen to me on my goat no ground on the inerfenders to the frame

i liked to have fell out of my chair pat, we agreed on something for one time.

Originally posted by lt1s10
i liked to have fell out of my chair pat, we agreed on something for one time.

marry christmas

Originally posted by pat mccarthy
marry christmas

stole this from denny, but sense its christmas he want mind.

Hey guys I don't remember there being a relay inside the headlight switch. Perhaps I needed to look a bit harder...anyway wiring up a new relay didn't hurt as it provided new copper and a direct path from the battery. I guess a good check of your earthing situation is a great idea as well. It always seems to be the earth cct that gets neglected. Why can't it be something trickier?

Andy.

Merry KWANZA!

Originally posted by gherkin350
Hey guys I don't remember there being a relay inside the headlight switch. Perhaps I needed to look a bit harder...anyway wiring up a new relay didn't hurt as it provided new copper and a direct path from the battery. I guess a good check of your earthing situation is a great idea as well. It always seems to be the earth cct that gets neglected. Why can't it be something trickier?

Andy.

Merry KWANZA!

Nope, I'm sure it won't hurt a thing, and it might not be the ground, but I.ve fixed a lot of the older cars that way. If he will set still, put it in gear and load and unload the motor while holding the brakes he should see the light brighten and dim. the first one I had like this I think it took about 2 days to find it, because it wouldn't do it sitting still, that was about as (tricked?) as it gets.