taillight and gauge cluster lights not working properly
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taillight and gauge cluster lights not working properly
Switched out the headlight switch when headlights stopped working. the headlights now work when the headlight switch plunger is pulled out but i can only get taillights and gauge cluster lights to work when i pull the plunger slighty out and it goes off before the first click. and just before getting to the third click. replace the plunger as well. out of ideas. anyone have any ideas or had this issue before?
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Switched out the headlight switch when headlights stopped working. the headlights now work when the headlight switch plunger is pulled out but i can only get taillights and gauge cluster lights to work when i pull the plunger slighty out and it goes off before the first click. and just before getting to the third click. replace the plunger as well. out of ideas. anyone have any ideas or had this issue before?
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Yea it's a new headlight switch. And fuses are good. I'm stumped the lights obviously work I just cant get them to stay on with the plunger engaged. It has to be a very certain spot in between pulls and one bump driving and it cuts off
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I'd check the plug itself first like I said, check the individual pins for corrosion and proper clamping force, then I'd take it back and swap it out for a different switch. The new one could be faulty, stranger things have happened.
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Dealing with the exact same thing in my girlfriend's 96. Headlights stopped working one afternoon when she got in heh Jeep to head home. Only high beams worked and had to be pulled and held. Running lights and everything else worked. Took the headlight switch apart nothing melted. Just looked 20 years old.
Plugged it back in and rested it under the dash and everything was working till like installed it and the dash. So we decided to just go replace it. Went to AutoZone and got one. Identical except has two grounds? Decided to use the one that's connected to the housing similar to the original one.
Plugged it all back in. Headlights work, high beams stay on and turn off like normal. But no running lights, dash cluster lights, buzzer. Noticed they come on inbetween detents like op mentioned. First running lights and dash only. I unplugged the ground and get same results so I figured the ground had a short/come disconnected? Put the old switch back in and get the same results as the new switch now. So flustered and stressed. Haven't tried returning and getting a new switch yet.
Plugged it back in and rested it under the dash and everything was working till like installed it and the dash. So we decided to just go replace it. Went to AutoZone and got one. Identical except has two grounds? Decided to use the one that's connected to the housing similar to the original one.
Plugged it all back in. Headlights work, high beams stay on and turn off like normal. But no running lights, dash cluster lights, buzzer. Noticed they come on inbetween detents like op mentioned. First running lights and dash only. I unplugged the ground and get same results so I figured the ground had a short/come disconnected? Put the old switch back in and get the same results as the new switch now. So flustered and stressed. Haven't tried returning and getting a new switch yet.
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Dealing with the exact same thing in my girlfriend's 96. Headlights stopped working one afternoon when she got in heh Jeep to head home. Only high beams worked and had to be pulled and held. Running lights and everything else worked. Took the headlight switch apart nothing melted. Just looked 20 years old.
Plugged it back in and rested it under the dash and everything was working till like installed it and the dash. So we decided to just go replace it. Went to AutoZone and got one. Identical except has two grounds? Decided to use the one that's connected to the housing similar to the original one.
Plugged it all back in. Headlights work, high beams stay on and turn off like normal. But no running lights, dash cluster lights, buzzer. Noticed they come on inbetween detents like op mentioned. First running lights and dash only. I unplugged the ground and get same results so I figured the ground had a short/come disconnected? Put the old switch back in and get the same results as the new switch now. So flustered and stressed. Haven't tried returning and getting a new switch yet.
Plugged it back in and rested it under the dash and everything was working till like installed it and the dash. So we decided to just go replace it. Went to AutoZone and got one. Identical except has two grounds? Decided to use the one that's connected to the housing similar to the original one.
Plugged it all back in. Headlights work, high beams stay on and turn off like normal. But no running lights, dash cluster lights, buzzer. Noticed they come on inbetween detents like op mentioned. First running lights and dash only. I unplugged the ground and get same results so I figured the ground had a short/come disconnected? Put the old switch back in and get the same results as the new switch now. So flustered and stressed. Haven't tried returning and getting a new switch yet.
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For anyone with this issue I just noticed that one of the pins on the new headlight switch was bent and was not being inserted along with the rest. After straightening the pin its working
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