well, the darn thing is out

[pelago]

I second the notion of the runt. May 38 Max Magoo fulfill the part that his predecessor left behind.

Dogs are the most loyal critter that one can be blessed with. They hold the keys to your soul, and protectors of your heart.

We have two dogs that I hold near and dear. My long suffering Misses found the Shepard for me, for a birthday present. The other was a flea market free puppy that was the runt of the litter. Both are great, loyal pups with totally different personalities. The picture of the Shepard was taken on a day last winter where she wasn't feeling good at all. I carried her into the garage, and sat with her until she perked up. By the next morning, she was ready to patrol the perimeter again. That was a great relief to me.

thank yolu for sharing your pooches, am doing my best to cope, dogs are with us for such a short time, i had Moxie Magoo for 9 years and he was abruptley taken from me, and i have been around death for a long time, but this really got to me, hewas such a companion, and he was my best friend. truly he was. am now waiting for a new pup, put a deposit on a lab puppy, they were born on easter sunday the day before magoo was killed. the stark reality is he is gone, he is now back in his yard with all of his toys.

am trying to get back into my jeep, and i will survive this, and will cry when i lose another one, guess that is my nature. Dogs are not pets, nor something you own, they are not property, They are truly mans best friend, God put them here for a reason, and he brought such joy to me, i live alone and he was all i had. and am anxiously waiting for new pup. looking forward to bonding with him and hopefully a new best friend. Have had labs all of my life and cried each time i lost one. When i got back from my first tour in RVN i had a lab named Nuba, she got sick, very sick but she waited til her daddy came home, when she greeted me at the door she was like a puppy again, whining crying, tail going wild licking and kissing the way dogs do, I went to bwd that night, and she got into her usual place and died in her sleep that night, peacefully that was long long ago, but still love her as much as i did anyof them and loved Moxie magoo, and always will
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[pelago]

okay the m38a1.....
sdudying the chematic hard and doing aligator clip wiring tests the headlights work, but when i donfigure thru the dimmer swtictch nothing?? how in the hell does the light get ground 17 powesrt all the lights, and goes to lamp in dash to tell you hi beam, but where in the hell is the ground

rear light in proper configuration

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[LarrBeard]

Head lights get their ground from wire #91.

#16 is power from light switch on dash to dimmer switch.

#17 is High Beam, goes to lamp on dash and headlights.

#18 is Low Beam.

#91 is ground for headlights. It comes out through the grommet on the headlight bucket and grounds to a lug on the back of the headlight bucket. It looks like a loose piece of wire that is not part of the harness and it could have wandered off sometime or another.

There is a picture showing wire # 91 in TM9-8014, Page 206, Figure 104.

My first wife and I had a big white Persian cat (yeah, a cat) that we inherited from a daughter who brought him back from college. (Daughters have brought back a lot worse...). He became my cat - for example he would climb ladders and "help" me clean gutters. After I lost my wife, he was my foot warmer at night. I had to put him down and I realized that a lot of the grief I spent on him had been grief I had penned up from losing my wife. There will never be another Great White Pooh Cat...

[pelago]

Great White Pooh Cat...

i know, there will never be another moxie magoo, and i have to HAVE TO not try to make the new pup him

[LarrBeard]

i have to HAVE TO not try to make the new pup him

Critters tend to have enough of their own personality that:

A. They end up naming themselves, and;

B. They end up being pretty dern well whoever they want to be.

[pelago]

#91 is ground for headlights. It comes out through the grommet on the headlight bucket and grounds to a lug on the back of the headlight bucket. It looks like a loose piece of wire that is not part of the harness and it could have wandered off sometime or another.

it wandered

[pelago]

dont know whether or not this is true, but have been told that grief will manifest itself in different ways, I lost my middle son a few years ago due to a tragic auto accident and he was in fact at fault, lost my wife, and out of my platoon that landed only three of us left alive, when i lost magoo, i sort of really lost it. My daughter and three grandchildren 3000 miles away and oldest son getting a messy divorce and might lose his *** on the sale of the house....... dunno. but am actually getting back to work on the jeep. Think i might name the jeep Magoo

[LarrBeard]

but have been told that grief will manifest itself in different ways, ... but am actually getting back to work on the jeep. Think i might name the jeep Magoo

A. Grief will work on us in many ways. The classic "7-stages of grief" way oversimplify the process. I lost my father when I was 22 and it was almost 20 years later that I finally realized that I was still mad at him for up and dying on us and leaving us in the situation he did. Absolutely nothing rational about it. Just keep an eye open to make sure that whatever you do or decide is not grief making the decision for you.

B. "Magoo" - not a bad name for a Jeep.

C. Did the info help you figure out ground for the lights?

[gmwillys]

Greif does come out in different ways. I lost a son as a infant through his mother's carelessness. If it wasn't for work, and a war going on, it would have been a different story. You will be OK, but there will always be a hole in your heart left from the absence of your companions.
We may not be blood relatives, but we are your family here. Let us know what we can do to help. LarrBeard has your wiring diagrams listed, so that should get you were you need to be.

[pelago]

headlights, marker lights, dimmer switch.
two switches one supposed to be brand new
original switch, Continuity from source pin (battery voltage) to #17 good #81 good
power it up with pigtails, and ground is good, source voltage good. mechanical switch sounds like it is activating, but a meter on either output is no different no matter what positiion the dimmer switch is in there is source voltage on BOTH 17 and 81 17 also goes to indicator bulb on dash. can not work if source voltage always on 81 and 17'

continuity on cable good, double junction for 81, 17, and the market light
lights new. however when i looked at them the wires just came loose, investigation found that although the correct solder to light itself good whoever the twit was that conneced the cable might have crimped it with 2 oz pressure, had to rebuild two brand new lights. pigtail check of both good and both good for numbers on the cable they match hi/low

NEW SWITCH

source boltage to correct pin zero voltage on 17 no matter what is done to switch
voltage on 81 good and the switch turns it off but still no source voltage for hi beam???
not a good day, but at least i got to see the headlights burn


and can return the new switch after i confirm it DON'T WORK

COUPLE HOURS LATER, I REPEATED ALL STEPS... same results

however i manually pigtailed the brake light plug. good brake lights, and then i put a meter on the switch itself and got the meter where i could see the needle Bingo, pressed brakes and got it, now to get the plug on the switch itself, maybe this is something i should have done before putting the body on.. oh well

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