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i will be doing another one soon as the headlights were blinking on my towtruck last night.
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my headlights flash

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My headlights flash when warm and if I use dimmer my dash goes black. Do I need new switch and upgrade to relays? Lmc sells heavy duty headlight harness for 30 bucks. Any opinions or reviews. New and in need of some expert advice. Thanks all.
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I use the 30 amp bosch spdt relays and they go for about 5 bucks
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upgrade to relay

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will upgrading to relays solve my headlight flashing and dash going black problem? or does my headlight switch need to be replaced? thanks
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it will solve the problem permanently. a new headlight switch may stop the flashing for a while but the crappy wiring remains. this is because of the switch function of a circuit breaker-too much current thru old thin wires overheats the breaker, it stops the flow until it cools off and the lights come back on till it gets hot again....
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thanks iceman

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iceman - thanks for the reply

will change out and upgrade
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Thanks to info here we added relays and H4 Lamps.


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ezernut9mm wrote:a guy over at fordification is making these in kit form for about 25$. i have heard nothing but good about them.
can you make a link to this , I went over there and looked and could not find it.
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LMC sells a kit; not what I would use, but a definite improvement.Bobenhotep was making some top quality ones, but the price of the needed materials was driving the finished price higher than what some were willing to pay.
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loquito wrote:
ezernut9mm wrote:a guy over at fordification is making these in kit form for about 25$. i have heard nothing but good about them.
can you make a link to this , I went over there and looked and could not find it.
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Late model cars and trucks are full of relays a trip to a pick a parts yard could net you a handful of relays for little to nothing!
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Great info!

I need to go back and read some of these older threads.
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I used to make a bolt on plug and play module to do this, but parts alone were thirty some odd dollars. I posted a thread about who my electrofunk suppliers were. I'll go look for it.
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