Headlight Switch?

[Fordsandguns]

And I can't explain anything worth a darn, nor draw anything recognizable, or do pictures.

I don't know where my electrical and mechanical abilities came from, the school of hard knocks I guess ; it sure wasn't from either side of my family tree going back several generations .

I think you did ok explaining it. It's just that if I haven't had that area apart to picture it in my mind then I get lost easy.

 

[J D Recovery]

When you check the switch take a good look at the electrical socket plugged in to it. Its notorious for getting hot and failing along with the switch since the headlight are not run through a relay.

Yup been there done that used a paper clip to get back home one night. Started to carry a second switch then I fixed an end and replaced the burnt plastic connector. But every switch I get from advanced auto has the dome light come on before the click so I would leave it on over night. Now I have one from the local u pull it yard and its fine. I think I will add the relays before I have the same problem again. Thanks to all that reminded me ford forgot to add the relay.

 

[Hyde]

Cool deal glad ya found it

 

[Fordsandguns]

Cool deal glad ya found it

Me too!

 

[87crewdually]

Those add-ons can get ya sometimes. Trailer plugs are another prob area.

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

Those add-ons can get ya sometimes. Trailer plugs are another prob area.

That's what terminal blocks, auxilliary fuse-blocks, solder, and heat-shrink are for.

Everything I have wired/added myself is in far superior condition than the cheapy "harness" that Ford put in.

Where the problem begins is when people splice into the already over-taxed/under-wired factory system, and especially when they do so in a shoddy manner such as scotch-locks, suit-case splicers, cheapie crimpers, big wads of black tape, etc.

That is one of the many reasons why I keep preaching that the trailer plug should always be independent of the factory wiring and the factory headlight switch should in no way affect the trailer markers---not even via a relay, the trailer markers should be controlled by a switch entirely their own; the same goes for any added truck markers, running-board lights, tailgate lights, etc.