Headlamp Relay for 1970 bus

[lcfmonkey]

My headlamp relay looks like this. I'm struggling to find a similar one online, most are the black cube ones which also have 5 pins. I think I read somewhere that someone wired up a cube style relay to work as a replacement for my one. Is this possible or did I just dream it?

Cheers
Monkey

 

[sparkywig]

Have you tried fixing yours?
It's usually only sticky contacts, open it up and give it a good clean.

 

[67panel]

I just used a beetle one on my 68, but then the wiring had been butchered. They all work the same way.

 

[lcfmonkey]

Have you tried fixing yours?
It's usually only sticky contacts, open it up and give it a good clean.

Yeah, I opened it up and it looked fine, no corrosion or dirt. I was able to manually switch it over so that it's now set to low beam rather than high so at least I'm not peeing everyone off at night!
I was hoping to use a cheaper one to identify where the problem is.

 

[lcfmonkey]

I just used a beetle one on my 68, but then the wiring had been butchered. They all work the same way.

Forgive the stupid question but how do you know which terminals go where?

 

[sparkywig]

To use a 5 pin relay just add a switched 12V to terminal 30.

Forgive the stupid question but how do you know which terminals go where?

They should have the same numbers on each relay, it's an industry standard.

 

[lcfmonkey]

To use a 5 pin relay just add a switched 12V to terminal 30.

They should have the same numbers on each relay, it's an industry standard.

That makes sense. Last stupid question, if I rig this up using spade connectors what wire should I use?

 

[sparkywig]

A 1.5mm cable should be fine.