Left headlight wont turn on!

[jpnissans13]

ok hey i got a 91 240sx s13 DOCH, 5 speed. recently i noticed that my left head light is not turning on when i turn the lights on, but the weird thing is that it lights up when i turn high beams on it will light up, but then the right side headlight wont work. Please help. checked the fuses.

thanks!

[OutToWinPAHC]

Check the bulbs, and then the sockets for power. You could have one bad low beam element and a bad high beam element.

[jpnissans13]

well i checked the bulbs and they were fine. i searched around i some ppl say its the switch, the one on the steering column.

what do you mean by low and high beam element?

[OutToWinPAHC]

Its an S13 with flip ups I assume. You have one headlamp with 2 elements inside. A high beam and a low beam. On the back of the headlamp there are 3 spade prongs one ground, 1 +12 for high beam element, 1 +12 for low beam element.

I would unplug the bump and check the plug socket. See if you have both high and low beam voltage before you go replace a switch / relay, or more.

[jpnissans13]

ok so today is checked if the socket has power. it does, both high and low beam.

i fixed the high beam problem by simply running a wire from the passengers side lamp, high beam power source, to drivers side high beam inlet or however you wanna call it. tried the same thing for the low beam, but it did not work. My question is are there two bulbs in the same headlight? If so im thinking that the low beam bulb is out.

[jpnissans13]

thanks for the help. just came back from auto zone. got a new headlight. WOKS! all it was the bulb inside was shot and since its a sealed beam i had to replace the whole thing. I still have the issue with the high beams, i mean with my wire method it works, but thats not how its suppose to be. anyways, now high and low beams work perfectly!

[dsastr_clan]

i have never though of that!!! cool beans lol one of my high beams has never worked on my 240 im gonna try to run that wire from the other headlight lol!!! what prone is the high or low beam??

[jpnissans13]

i used a test light to figure that out. i dont remember which one was what.

ill take a look at it today and il post it up here.

[dsastr_clan]

cool!!!! lol i will def wire my high beam today!!! at nite when i get off

[jpnissans13]

ok here.



just run a 18g wire from one headlight to the other one.

GL!