{"id":5243,"date":"2019-11-11T20:36:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T01:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/?p=5243"},"modified":"2019-11-11T20:37:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T01:37:02","slug":"jeep-xj-headlight-wiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/jeep-xj-headlight-wiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeep XJ Headlight wiring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the days get shorter and I drive more in the dark, I have been noticing that my LED headlights have been flickering a bit lately.&nbsp; Today they suddenly went out completely!<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"457\" height=\"609\" src=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wiring.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5244\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wiring.jpg 457w, http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/wiring-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily, the high beams still worked. I just got to annoy people on coming and in front of me as I made my way home.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The light switch and dimmer switch seemed to be making the correct clicking sounds so I decided to try the connections starting with the ones I could get to easily.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first one I checked was the one where the grill harness meets the engine bay harness.&nbsp; As I touched it the headlights came on so I hit the right one first try.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pulling it apart, I could see lots of corrosion on the pins.&nbsp; I used a brass brush and Deoxit cleaner <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2WM5WiY\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2WM5WiY<\/a> to clean them up.&nbsp; I then plugged and unplugged the connector a few times to clean the sockets.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lights seem brighter again like they were when I first installed them.&nbsp; Hopefully, they will stay on in the dark now.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the days get shorter and I drive more in the dark, I have been noticing that my LED headlights have been flickering a bit lately.&nbsp; Today they suddenly went out completely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5245,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions\/5245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}