Wiring Gremlins

[67RS]

Ok I'm chasing my tail and I'm getting frustrated; I need help.

Here is the deal. I added relays to my headlights. One for high beams and one for low. I used the original power lines to trigger the relays and I came off of the horn relay for the high side to run the lights. No problem. The lights worked fine this way for a year. Last week I bought a painless wiring kit to, finally, hook up my headlight doors and thats where the problem started. Now the doors open and the lights come on but if they are on for more than a few seconds they won't shut off and the doors will not close unless I turn off the key. If I bypass the relays (back to original wire routing) everything works the way it should.

I'm also running a powermaster 100amp (not 1 wire) alternator. I have a jumper wire across the end terminals of the old regulator connector and thought I was getting back voltage there so I added a diode to the jumper. That didn't help.



I also tried putting a diode on the positive side of the headlight trigger circuit at the relay terminal but that didn't help either.

I like the added brightness of the headlights with the relays in place and don't want to go back to the original wiring method if I can avoid it. I just don't understand why the headlight relays are staying energized.

Any ideas?

Thanks guys,
Jason