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Amctavish77 · 04-01-2024, 12:08 PM

I have a ‘31 Tudor that I’m having an odd electrical issue on. A couple weeks back, the horn wires were removed from the back of the horn and inadvertently made contact with the headlight bucket resulting in fried horn and headlight wires; only about 6-8” of wiring was lost. But, it resulted in the car not starting either. I seemed to have figured out the starting issue however, I still have an electrical gremlin causing an issues.

When I can get the car to run, if I flip the headlight selector on the steering wheel to the left (lever arm towards driver door) the car will die and not restart. It seems to kill power throughout the entire system. It did it twice yesterday, the first time I was able to get it fired again but not the case the second time.

Could the headlight switch be bad? Or is there something that I am missing all together! The Model A electrical seems relatively easy so I feel like I’m overlooking something!

04-01-2024, 12:08 PM	#1
Amctavish77 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2024 Posts: 10	Model A Electrical Gremlin I have a ‘31 Tudor that I’m having an odd electrical issue on. A couple weeks back, the horn wires were removed from the back of the horn and inadvertently made contact with the headlight bucket resulting in fried horn and headlight wires; only about 6-8” of wiring was lost. But, it resulted in the car not starting either. I seemed to have figured out the starting issue however, I still have an electrical gremlin causing an issues. When I can get the car to run, if I flip the headlight selector on the steering wheel to the left (lever arm towards driver door) the car will die and not restart. It seems to kill power throughout the entire system. It did it twice yesterday, the first time I was able to get it fired again but not the case the second time. Could the headlight switch be bad? Or is there something that I am missing all together! The Model A electrical seems relatively easy so I feel like I’m overlooking something!