ok so i bought this wagon a while ago i hard wired a new fuel pump then relizing the alternator needs replacing. well anyways the other day i tried turning the head lights on while it was running and they dont turn on. would the bad alternator cause this? only thing i can see phsicaly wrong in the driver side corner light is missing. fuses were good.

Missing high and low beams, or just one?

u know i didnt try either high low but nothing lit up on the car.

You check the fusible links and insure they were tight and good?

 

Other than that I would check the lighting relay under the dash. Might be bad. A bad alternator can cause other failures. Overdriving components in excess of their designed voltage will eventually cause that.

 

GD

well i checked fusible links for voltage on both sides and i had good voltage. i was thinking of hard wiring them. i havent got that far yet. living in apartments has really disabled my working on anything time. where and which box is the light relay? thanks

Edited October 25, 200916 yr by WheaT_BeeR_MaN

It's one of the relays under the dash on the driver's side IIRC. You'll see them.

 

Don't hard-wire the fusible links. They are there for a reason - so you don't earn a darwin award by burning yourself to death.

 

GD

u know i didnt try either high low but nothing lit up on the car.

 

I've had just the low beam relay go out on subaru's before, so the high beams still wrorked, but no low beams (even though the low beam filiments were both still good).