pop-up light malfunction

It's not the A Team it's the "Hey? Team".
Let me know what you find. Mine are in sympathetic Panteraville with yours.

If you hear the headlight door relay "clicking", then the problem will be:

> bad contact inside the headlight door relay

> bad wiring connection to he headlight door relay

> bad wiring connection at one of the two micro switches

> bad contact inside one of the two micro switches

> plastic motor gear is stripped

The motor & relay share a common ground. Since you hear the relay clicking, I am assuming the ground is OK. The problem with the headlight doors is usually the micro switches or a stripped gear.

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Originally posted by george pence:

The problem with the headlight doors is usually the micro switches or a stripped gear.

Missing a screw is tough too, ask me I know.

If you can raise them by hand this should eliminate the plastic gear as a source of your problem. I'm betting micro switches.

Can you see the lights come on while still closed? I'm with Husker. Take out the switch. Open it up. Clean 30 yrs of junk of the contacts. Put it back together and you're good for another 20 years.

See post a few lines down "headlights won't go down."

Mine aren't opening or coming on.
I have to take the switch out and verify that I connected it correctly before I blame any part.
I'm getting no noise from the relays either.
I replaced the switch sometime in the distant past when I put in the Vadar lights.

Sounds like the interior headlight switch.

Is the headlight switch unique to the Pantera or is there another application?

The interior switches in the Pantera are probably the worse quality ever made. They break and stop working just from taking them out and putting them back in. Total garbage.
I went through 3 headlight switches when I was redoing my wiring just from unplugging the wires to the switch and plugging them back in.

I had a switch go bad one night on a road trip in the middle of the desert on my way to California at 2 AM. It just burned up and filled the compartment with smoke. Oh what fun it was driving about 50 miles with no lights other than the moon light.

I finally got to a truck stop and bought a simple 2 prong switch for 5.00. Hooked up the bucket motor wire and the lights wire. Was able to drive the rest of the way with this switch & lights. Got pretty warm, but none the less, it got me the rest of the way there. I still have this switch and keep it in my travel bag of tools and parts just in case.

Get a switch from your local auto parts store. Hook it up and see if they work then.

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Originally posted by PanteraDoug:
Is the headlight switch unique to the Pantera or is there another application?