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Okay sportsfans, I just did the bypass test:
1) I cut off the banana plugs, and connected a couple of leads together, using an appropriately sized Posi-Lock:
I also did a resistance check, and the connection was fine.
2) With the key turned to the ON position, I stuck one end of my two-pronged probe onto one of the outer blobs of the starter switch, and touched the other probe to the yellow-w/white (i.e., middle) blob on the headlight switch.
Got lights! (I only did this for a second or two. Very obvious that the headlights went on, what with no sunlight in the garage.)
3) I removed the probes, turned the key off, moved the headlight switch to its other position, and repeated step 2, i.e., each outside starter blob and the headlight-switch bus blob.
Got lights! And it was obvious that I had the switch in the high beam position the first time, and the low position the second time.
So, yeah, that wire run is my problem.
Question for the assembled gurus:
Does the wire exiting from the starter switch do anything else, have any other function, than to provide juice over to the headlight switch?
I ask this because if I cut that output wire, and run my own from the starter switch over the headlight bus input, I don't want to disrupt, disable, anything else that starter output wire was providing juice for.
Thanks.
1) I cut off the banana plugs, and connected a couple of leads together, using an appropriately sized Posi-Lock:
I also did a resistance check, and the connection was fine.
2) With the key turned to the ON position, I stuck one end of my two-pronged probe onto one of the outer blobs of the starter switch, and touched the other probe to the yellow-w/white (i.e., middle) blob on the headlight switch.
Got lights! (I only did this for a second or two. Very obvious that the headlights went on, what with no sunlight in the garage.)
3) I removed the probes, turned the key off, moved the headlight switch to its other position, and repeated step 2, i.e., each outside starter blob and the headlight-switch bus blob.
Got lights! And it was obvious that I had the switch in the high beam position the first time, and the low position the second time.
So, yeah, that wire run is my problem.
Question for the assembled gurus:
Does the wire exiting from the starter switch do anything else, have any other function, than to provide juice over to the headlight switch?
I ask this because if I cut that output wire, and run my own from the starter switch over the headlight bus input, I don't want to disrupt, disable, anything else that starter output wire was providing juice for.
Thanks.