alright. im not sure where to put this but i figure its part of the body. well anyway. i have an 85 t/a, well my passenger side headlight wont go down. both go up easy and work great, then the left goes right down and the passenger side one just stays up. sometimes it goes down real fast after it sits for awhile, and sometimes i have to lift the hood and turn the *** a few times and it flys down and hurts my fingers. any ideas?

 

Its a relay that went bad.

To get it down when you are not using it, just turn the little dial near the headlight. Use a key and put it in one of the holes, you can turn it much faster that way

 

alright, thanks alot. i guess that could explain the really light ticking noise that i just now heard. do you happen to know where its located? thanks

 

It's mounted on the inside of the fender next to the coolant recovery tank(between the tank and the light). As a visual check to confirm you're looking at the correct relay, there should be an identical one for the driver side in a similar location, next to the windshield washer tank. I don't know if part numbers ever changed, but on the '85 TA I've examined in the past, the relay number was 10031246.

 

awwww... its winking at you!


why i like camaros reason number 4... no popup headlights to break.
why i like camaros reason number 5... i can flash my highbeams as im coming up on someone i want to pass.

:lala:

 

 

Considering the high beam switch in my 91 is broke I'm not 100% sure (which is why I ask now) but, on my '84 camaro, there was no 'flash to pass' (headlamps off) option. Is that true for the newer ones (90+ w/the newer style dash)?

 

That's right! Firebirds have personality!

And people either freak and hit the brakes, or they curse you, lol. And there was a time out here in the LA area when one might pull a gun from his glove box!

Hey deadbird, so you pull back on your signal lever, and it doesn't click? There's nothing sophisticated about the high beam set-up. It's just a thin metal rod along the steering column that pokes into a white plastic base, which is the actual switch. Perhaps the rod has slipped out. Have you lowered the bottom of the dash cover and checked it out?

And in the steering column itself, the signal lever just pushes against a little plastic thingy that moves the metal rod, lol. How's that for sophistication? Maybe those parts aren't in correct alignment anymore. You'd have to take the column cover off to fix that though.

 

Thanks LA.. I know it's the switch that's broken because everyithing is in place (checked when I had the dash apart to replace gauge bulbs and take out the annoying -ss doorchime). It's mainly just me being to lazy to fix it since it's extremely rare I even need to use my high beams anyways. Plus, both high lamps have holes in them (so I'm guessing they don't work either anyways, lol).

The question I was going for is, I was fairly certain on all years, the high/low switch has no power to it when the headlamp switch is off. So, with the lights off, you can't 'flash-to-pass', you'd have to turn them on, flash, turn them off ?
That's how my old '84 (3 different columns as well) was and the '86 column/electrics I used in my friends truck.

My old '86 Daytona (for some unknown reason) had that feature, even though it couldn't pass itself. You could flash the brights by pulling back on the lever a little (all lights completely off).

 

84 Berlinettas could to it. That's about it.