What with inspection season coming up, I decided to take a look at my lights today... and they're broken too! As we know, Skylark headlights are lined up something like this; (1)(2)====I====(3)(4) When I turn on the low beams, lights #1 and #4 turn on, as they should. But when I switch over to high beams, #1 #2 #3 turn on, but #4 goes out! Any ideas? Should I just try replacing the bulb? o No: ~Mike '66 Skylark 340-4
Not exactly sure what would cause that. Kinda unrelated. Couple months back, I needed to buy a new head light. Looked at how old mine looked to be, decided to replace them all. It was a night and day difference.
The bulb is bad. The outside sealedbeams have 2 filaments, low and high, thats why they have 3 prongs, and the inside highbeams have 2 prongs. When you turn on the highbeams, the inside high beams light, and only the high beam portion of the outside sealedbeams light. That sealedbeam that goes dark has a blown high beam filament. Replace the sealedbeam on that side.
How much would a new set of bulbs cost? Do they still sell round ones like we have at auto parts stores, or do you have to special order from somewhere? ~Mike '66 Skylark 340-4
Mike, Last I checked you could still get them. Have a look at your favorite parts store. Shouldn't be a problem.
When I got mine, they were scarce on the shelf. However, the parts guys were happy to order them. Oddly enough, I bought my new high beams on ebay. Guy was selling overstock parts, $8 shipped for the pair.
John, what kind of search keywords did you use to find the right sort of lamps on ebay? ~Mike '66 Skylark 340-4
If you just want replacement lamps, you should be able to get halogen ones very cheap at any local auto parts store. If you want a show car with the year-correct T-3 lamps, these can be ordered from several specialty vendors for about $100 per set of four.
Just looked on E-Bay, found these: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...ry=33710&item=7936794373&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW For 10.00, I think you could do better just looking in a parts store. They are out there.
