faulty headlight switch in toyota 80 series

coyote80,

If ya need a new stork (read 2nd hand) try http://www.allfourx4.com.au/ at Kotara

Cheers,

Cruiser

Something worth checking is where the wires go out of the stalk into the plastic shroud around the steering column. A few weeks ago my friend bought his Falcon around to me to look at that had exactly the same problem.

Turned that one of the wires had rubbed through just where it exits the stalk & goes into the steering column. Was not real hard to take off the steering column shrould as it was in 2 halves screwed together. Cant imagine it would be much different on your 80 series.

A known problem with older 75 series Troopys is contact failure in the switch. Our Troopy sometimes loses all lights briefly when changing from high beam to low, but I haven't gone inside yet to check. Your 80 series may well have the same switch gear.

The following was posted a while back on the Yahoo Oztroopy forum and might be helpful:

" I am having some problems with the headlights on my 75 series troopy. When I
switch from low to high beam my lights often just go off completely. As I live
a long way from any street lights this can be a bit of a problem. I can usually
get it to work by going back to low beam and then back to high beam again."

the most promising response was this one:

"I had the same problem about 6 years ago. Mine happened right in the middle
of the Nullarbor, lights dropped right out when I switched to high beam. Only
way I got lights was to hold the light switch back on high beam. Needless to say
I pulled over when I found a camp and when I turned the lights right off they
came back on! Pulled the combination switch apart a few days later and found the
small round contact on one of the strips had fallen out. I put it back in with
some solder on the back and it's only just started playing up again after about
6 years so time to have another look at it."


HTH

John

finally got round to putting a second hand light stork and mechanism in.. works well but now my horn has stopped working. is this part of the same part or is it a completely new problem??