and might fail on a dark winding road. One night a police officer let me drive home with my hazards on --I guess the screwdriver modification impressed him. Presently I think there is another way, though it is more a "racer" solution than restoration. I just want my headlamp/running light circuit out of these tired old switches... The trick is simply a three wire code, and my experiment is not quite working yet. Any wizards out there?

My 'switch fix' was done pretty much like bloxman's and has 'held' for about 8 years now. Besides, aren't you talking about a ZX? There are a handful of people here who could probably tell you the color codes for a ZX combo switch but we're mainly talking about S30 switches here. Why not just get the correct switch? I don't know about where you are but I pass by plenty of ZX's when I'm at the local junkyards. Toggle switches? I think you might end up having to work that out on your own.

Just a note for people digging into the 280Z headlight/Wiper combination switch-

take care to clean the switch points up on that as the power for the headlamps goes through the headlamp switch TWICE; one for the battery side, and one for the ground side. Usually only the ground leg is switched, so I figure they did it like that for extra safety.

thx

Actually I think they did that for the High/low beam switch. It sends the ground over to the turn signal switch. The combo switch turns on the (+) lead and the grounds (-) go thru the hi/lo switch.

FWIW

Dave