I can see!!!!!!!!!!!
Dan, did you do a write up on the headlight rewiring? I've seen the MAD electrical article. Anything different you did for yours?
Forget that half-baked idiocy from MAD electrical, which leaves the inadequate factory wiring in place and just splices in relays. My writeup is
here; allpar's is
here.
There's nothing terribly magical or mystical about this upgrade. There are many ways to do it. Some techniques are better than others. Some decisions are not better/worse but simply a matter of opinion and preference. For example, I recommend using one relay to control both low beams and one relay to control both high beams. Some people prefer to have one relay for each filament (left low, left high, right low, right high) for a total of four rather than two relays. Their way reduces the
consequences of a failure (only one lamp goes out if a relay, fuse, or connection fails); my way reduces the
likelihood of a failure (reduced parts count/complexity so reduced number of potential failure points). My philosophy is to do the job in the simplest practical effective way, and toss a spare relay in the glovebox if you're worried about it.
The only reason to buy the parts kit is that it contains all the hard-to-find specially made premium-grade items (e.g. ceramic or phenolic headlamp sockets to accept large-gauge wire) instead of the "consumer grade" junk you can find at the parts store. Relays are widely available, but it can be a pain in the neck to find the ones configured properly for the job (dual #87 terminals, no #87a) in reliably good quality. Likewise, relay brackets and terminal blocks are generally not hard to find, but the ones in the parts kit have tongue-and-groove so they snap-lock together to form tidy relay banks.
