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June 29, 2007, 11:29:30 PM

I see you have the website for the parts for the sequential turn signals and so on. ( which my gf at the time my now wife boutght me for my old cougar which was never installed but it will on my new cougar) I have gotten a new headlight system for my expediton and one of my relays $hit the bed. I can not find it anywhere I am wondering if I get you the number or a picture of the relay you might be able to help me out. Or anyonw for that matter.

Chris

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Reply #1 – June 29, 2007, 11:53:00 PM

I might have one kicking around - I've got a couple of OEM Ford relays out of old cop cars (by "old" I mean 98-02) in the bottom drawer of my tool box. Post a pic.

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Reply #2 – June 30, 2007, 12:02:21 AM

I dont think its an OEM relay it came in the wire kit that came with the projector headlights. Advance auto, napa no auto store in my area has it. Ill get a picture and any numbers off it possibly tomorrow.

This is the relay I need

Reply #3 – June 30, 2007, 08:41:49 PM

One of them controls the brights.

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Let me know if you or anyone else who reads this who might know where I can get tihs.

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Reply #4 – June 30, 2007, 11:11:50 PM

What is the terminal layout?

*edit* nevermind, I looked it up. It appears to be a common relay included in lighting kits and puppiesanese vehicles. If you don't mind changing connectors you could easily subsitute a more common 5-terminal relay (which every store would carry). The terminal configuration is as below:

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Reply #5 – July 01, 2007, 04:05:15 PM

Ok thats like asking me to read Chinese im no electrician WHat would I have to do to change it? I would just need to change the plug the relay goes into?? Sorry again i dont know much about electronics in cars .

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Reply #6 – July 01, 2007, 06:54:13 PM

You would change the plug the relay goes into. In order to do so you'd have to rearrange the wires so that they are as shown below. The colour of the wires on your vehicle does not matter - you MUST make sure you swap the wires terminal for terminal as shown in my drawing. The red wire on the "old relay" goes to the position of the red wire on the "new relay", AS SHOWN IN THE DIAGRAM, NOT AS ANY HARNESS YOU MAY GET HAS and so on). In other words, ignore any wire colours on your vehicle or the new relay harness.

As shown in my diagram, "85" must go to "85", "30" must go to "30", etc. The old relay might not have these numbers but the new relay should. If the old one doesn't, go by the position of the wires - the view shown below is of the bottom of the relay, so while holding the relay so that you're looking at the bottom of it with the connector's retaining clip pointing DOWN, the wire that goes into the bottom left terminal would be wire #85, so it would go into the terminal marked "85" on the new relay, and so on.

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Reply #7 – July 02, 2007, 12:32:06 PM

Thank you so much i will give this a try so I just have to buy a regular relay or is there a specific relay I would have to ask for. im sorry to ask so many questions.