Re: Ground stud Re: power steering pump replacement

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 May 2005 mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > this is urban legend, i think.  street-legal headlights are limited by
> > law to 55w max, and it doesn't matter what type they are.  legal
> > halogens aren't noticeably different in this respect than the old
> > sealed beams.  where they are different is that the halogen process

Yeah, but 30+ year old headlight switches are often all crapped
out.  About half of the ones I see are semi-melted and show signs
of the push-on connectors overheating. Just fixed the 72 hornet's
switch!

So there's a statistically significant window of opportunity that
the switch dies a day/week/month after installing halogens (or
regulars, or small stuffed chickens, etc), just proximity.

I can distinctly recall some time in the early 1990's, pulling out
of the last tiny town in AZ on I8 West onto the freeway, and the
light switch burning up for the last time just as I'm coming up to
speed on the onramp in the dark. No Fun. Alligator clip from the
toolbox got me home.