Others have answered but kind of hinted around one thing you need to know. You need TWO relays. One for the high beam circuit and one for the low beam circuit. Kind of hard to describe without pictures but I suck at artwork.
Find your headlight fuses (4 fuses for a '68). They are 'fed' by 2 hot wires from the dimmer relay. You need 2 relays because the dimmer was also designed for the original bulbs so you want to get 'around' it as well as your headlught switch. Standard 30 amp automotive relays have terminals labeled 85, 86, 30, and 87 (and possibly 87a -- ignore it if it's there). Pull the hot wire from the fuse box that feeds the two high beam fuses and hook it to terminal 85 run a jumper from terminal 86 to ground (earth). Use another (properly sized) jumper from 87 to the fuse box where you removed the hot wire. Run a new wire from a BIG positive voltage source to terminal 30 (people running really high wattage off road lamps tend to go straight to the battery -- using the hot wire that goes from the battery to your headlight switch then to the fuse box defeats the purpose of this modification). Repeat these steps for the low beams. Now when you turn on your lights the switch is only providing power to a very low draw relay. The lights are being fed through the 30amp contacts on the realy directly from the battery. Gerald On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:52:26 +0000 asad ishaque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I may get shot by the people for not revealing this earlier but Im > running higher than stock wattage bulbs for the heads. Could this be the > source of probs??? > > I am now thinking of having another aftermarket non vw relay working > with the original relay for switching on the headlights. Would that make > life easier??? Can people suggest where I should put that assuming its a > good option. > > > Waiting for input. > > TIA > > Asad > Karachi, Pakistan. _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list vintagvw@lists.sjsu.edu http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
