1981 rangie electric problem!!! No lights at all

Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Location: melbourne

Hi all i have a 1981 2dr range rover and after removing some wires that had nothing to do with or connected to anything i now only have full beam when holding the stick back. This also has duel batteries and a 4.4 p76 engine in it if makes any difference. any help is good as i keep missing out on night drives

Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Location: Newcastle

Ye Olde Rangie wrote:

Hi all i have a 1981 2dr range rover and after removing some wires that had nothing to do with or connected to anything i now only have full beam when holding the stick back. This also has duel batteries and a 4.4 p76 engine in it if makes any difference. any help is good as i keep missing out on night drives

Do you have parking lights?

My guess it's the small light switch.
It supplies power to the brown wire input to the hi/lo switch.

However if you hold the hi/lo switch back (flash) then power to lights comes from the big purple wire which is permanently powered from the battery via a fuse.

Joined: 12 Jun 2005 Location: Yinnar South, Vic

Or one of the shit bullet plugs that you bumped while thumbing around under the dash Very Happy

Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Location: melbourne

No parking lights either and i only removed wires from under the bonnet

Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Location: New Zealand

so its either the main light switch or the feed to it.

Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Location: melbourne

Ive not looked in another rangie but is the light switch on the left on like a pull switch mine is but im not sure its standard or not

Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: St Helena, Melbourne.

Ye Olde Rangie wrote:

Ive not looked in another rangie but is the light switch on the left on like a pull switch mine is but im not sure its standard or not

No its a stubby lever same as the driving light stalk on the rh side, they have a habit of burning out and melting the shitty plastic bit that holds the brass contacts.