Rich, my most heartfelt condolences. It can come as a shock to actually do something after years of 'I'll get to that later'. What happened? Nothing left to get in the way? Don't worry, there will be other projects that you mean to get around to.
However, I have to object to your post, as such illumination of the (apparent) ease that melted insulation can be avoided is frustrating to many of us. We may need to follow (damn your eyes sir!). In conclusion. please refrain from such detail in further 'enlightenment'. Jef Fowler ProCras (with honors) 1924 (many (many) Heathkit projects to complete) ------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:32:38 -0700 > From: "Richard C. Wagner"<[email protected]> > Subject: [alfa] Headlight Relays > > Brother Raccoons: > > After years of dedicated procrastination, I screwed up and mounted a set of > headlight relays in my GTV6. I guess I got exhausted and couldn't prevent > myself from doing it any longer. Anyway, the results are just great. > > I couldn't find a good space to mount the two relays in the engine > compartment. And so I decided to mount them in the space behind the > driver's side headlights. There's a fairly large volume there, that's > accessible with the two headlights removed. I mounted the relays on the > sheet-metal plate that forms the front of the inner fender. The other nice > thing about this location is that all of the headlight wiring runs through > this space. And so I was able to make all of my cuts and splices right > there. The only indication that the work has been done is two heavy wires > running from the main power terminal on the driver's side, inner fender, > forward to two inline fuse holders, and then disappearing with the rest of > the wiring through to the front cowl, next to the radiator. > > The first owner of my car (I'm the second) replaced the original, > sealed-beam headlights with Cibie Z-Beams. They pull a total of 110 watts > on low-beam, and 320 watts on high. (The low beam lights have Philips > 100/55 "rally" bulbs in them.) I have a feeling that's more power than the > originals used. The headlight switch used to get pretty warm with the low > beams on. It would get HOT with the highs on. The headlights are > noticeably brighter now, and the headlight switch is now only handling low > current. I spent about an hour or two going over the wiring diagrams to see > what I had to work with and how I would splice into the system, and then > about three hours doing the actual installation. Now I can see and I'm no > longer nervous every time I flip the lights on. > > > Rich Wagner > Montrose, CO, USA > '82 GTV6 -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
