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Old Jun 21, 2004 | 04:44 PM
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Unhappy Headlight Fuses?

My retractable headlight motor is killing my battery, need to find fuses ASAP. Where are they? Pictures would help, but words are fine.
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Old Jun 21, 2004 | 04:49 PM
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Old Jun 21, 2004 | 04:56 PM
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i'll go a little more in depth:
i put up my headlights, and when i went to put them down, only one went down. My thought was that i blew a fuse, i got a diagram and there was a thing with 4 fuses for the whole lighting system. Its been a day and my battery is dead, also before it died, i could here clicking from the stuck headlight.
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Old Jun 21, 2004 | 05:04 PM
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clicking might be he retract headlight fuse. for an immediate fix for the power drain, get the headlights up and pull the RETRACTOR Fusible link above. Then have fun determining whats keeping the motor from brining the light down/up. goodluck
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Old Jun 22, 2004 | 05:28 AM
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Fuses don't click...

The headlight motors are protected by the 30A RETRACTOR fuse, which is the one closest to the outside of the engine bay. It sounds like you've got a stuck headlight. Anytime the headlight isn't fully up or fully down the motor is energised. So if it's stuck part way and you leave it, it'll flatten the battery.

Pull the fuse and use the manual **** at the bottom of the motor to move the headlight, watching to see if it's catching on anything.
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Old Jun 22, 2004 | 11:18 AM
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Fuses don't click...
true.. meant to say relay actually... nm though, looks like the best is covered
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