CaMpylobacter Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 people changed it over the years etc. just check where your neg. lead goes. if it's bod, then neg earth abviously, if the pos. goes to body, then positive earth dunno what the shizz was with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidian Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 tru, chur negative then. 2 earths on my car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rxsumo Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 If these are the Blue tinted Halogen bulbs, we found them to vary depending on the type of driving and the shape of the Headlamp. In our old MX5 with round 7inch headlamps the performance was pretty good, except it didnt have the long range punch of a Xenon on full beam. Around town performance was good, and it had better reflector pickup on low beam. In the father inlaws L200 ute with square headlights, they were crap. The lens shape must have very sharp range cutoff, so the high beam performance was dismal....worse than normal 55 watt halogens, and around town it was only barely better than sidelights. With the Escort having the nearly square headlights could be part of the issue. I would suggest that you should get some relays else you might experience the death of you light switch or your High/Low beam switch. We melted the light switch in one of our old Angleboxes...sorta funny watching the knob drooping in the dash as all the guts of the switch were melting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 sorry yeah, im getting confused haha, its a december 70, so its a negative earth, i remember the early escorts with positive earth have it written on a sticker by the strut tops The sticker says they are negative earth. Negative is the way most cars are. Positive tends to be an old way of doing things. I dont think escorts were ever pos earth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted April 26, 2006 Share Posted April 26, 2006 haha Sumo. melting shit sucks aye. If I was you I wouldnt fuck around with relays and shit just yet. just change to an alternator and then decide if you need better again or not. Cant go wrong with alternator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteretep Posted April 26, 2006 Author Share Posted April 26, 2006 http://freespace.virgin.net/tommy.sandh ... ersion.htm says there that you need to convert to negative earth, how do I tell which one it is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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