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Old Sep 21, 2008 | 03:18 PM
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I just finished reassembling everything form doing the headlight gear swap. When I reconnected everything and then tried to test the headlights they worked backwards. when i turn the switch on the headlights cycle down and when i turn them off they cycle up.
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Old Sep 21, 2008 | 03:59 PM
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anyone... I've got nothing.
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Old Sep 21, 2008 | 04:13 PM
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ok i figured it out and I feel like a dumbass. Just in case this gets archived I had the linkage installed backwards. I'll take a couple pics of how it should look and how I had it. Hopefully no one else will have this problem now.
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Old Sep 21, 2008 | 04:38 PM
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What happened to me was one headlight would go up while the other went down. It was the funniest thing to see.
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Old Sep 21, 2008 | 05:49 PM
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i had them both on wrong so it was just pissing me off. But i could see how that would be pretty funny. I'm more glad to know that I'm not the only one who has done this. Makes me feel a little less like a moron
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Old Sep 21, 2008 | 06:32 PM
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i had them both on wrong so it was just pissing me off. But i could see how that would be pretty funny. I'm more glad to know that I'm not the only one who has done this. Makes me feel a little less like a moron
Me too!

Seriously though, how many popup headlights have you ever repaired?* None myself before getting my T/A. So my point is that it was a total learning curve for the both of us.

*That's what I told myself at the time to feel like less of a moron.

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Old Sep 21, 2008 | 07:27 PM
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very true. It would have helped to pay a little more attention to how it was assembled when I had started though!
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