Electrical Question

Yes the fog light works with dip and side lights are on. and goes off when high beam is on but still works when you use flash...

the flash uses a slightly different circuit - which is why the dip beam stays on when you flash but not with main beam

Well, that's what I thought Boydy, but the dim-dip circuit at the bottom left page 13.20 shows the inhibitor relay cutting power to both dip and main beam?

If that's right (and it's there in black and white) then the fogs should not come on at all if either dip or main is used. But, that's seems stupid, so either Haynes is wrong or Dez has miswired it.

I'd reckon on the culprit being Haynes.

So Dez, this seems to be how it's meant to work. If you don't like it, you could disconnect the fog light inhibitor, which is a relay with blue and brown wires to it. Find it by switching on the lights and fogs, then switching from main to dip you should hear it clicking.

Disconnect the blue wire from it.

Now, your Hazards. This seems a bit odd.

Have got 12 volts at the end of the purple wire connecting to the switch?

If no, check the fuse.

It seems that the Hazard switch is fed 12v twice. First time by purple permanently, secondly by green, which is ignition switched.

Ahh now i understand. Some LR's have a DIM/DIP system - which is different to dip beam. What that is is when the ignition is switched off, if the headlights are on, they are dimmed to save battery power. This would of course also take the fog light with it.
So you in fact have:
Ignition off
-Sidelights only
-Sidelights and DIMdip
Ignition on
-sidelights only
-sidelights and dip
-sidelights dip and fog
-sidelights and main beam

Now is see what you were on about!

As far as i know most UK LR's dont have this dim/dip system, neither of mine have had it.

blurry eck - thats complemecated for a landy. Most of us feel lucky to have two working headlights!

i have a feeling its a requirement in certain countrees, like netherlands etc.

Where is the fog inhibitor relay - we stripped my mates '84 dash out trying to find it, and couldn't. We came to the conclusion that it was just hard wired in on the early ones.

Dunno, main fuse box prolly - that's why I said listen for it clicking!

boguing said:

Dunno, main fuse box prolly - that's why I said listen for it clicking!

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Checked there, done that