so im riding down the road the other night and my headlights cut off for about 2 seconds then cut back on. i have an 88 f150 by the way, would the dimmer switch cause that even though i hadnt used it any that night?

 

Can't say for sure, but a similar thing happened a couple months back on my son's toyota pickup and the headlight switch was goin bad.

 

You have the floor mounted dimmer?
Thats probably the problem.
Mine died half a dozen times in 9 years, thats how it would start, but it could also be the light switch.

 

My dimmer does that too. It doesn't even turn on the high beams anymore, but when the headlights aren't working I stomp the living s**t out of it and they work again.

 

I got in a jam one night at about 1am, no headlights 20miles from home, i kept driving, made it home, no traffic and i drove that road every day for years.
The problem was, i had to be back at work in five hours, had no spare switch, and no place to buy one, i searched the junk in my yard and found one from a dodge dart, oddly enough in a dodge dart, plus a spare in a box of parts in the dart.
Okay two tries, but my switch terminals were different, they were upside down. So i turned my conector plugged in the switch,and lights LIGHTS lights LIGHTS okay works.
So i unscrewed the old switch ,screwed my dodge switch down, and no more problem.
This was the first time i accually looked hard at the old switch, it had corroded at the bottom and arced out on the floor board, and melted itself. Before the dodge switch, i had always replaced them with Wells brand switches, which all failed sometime in snow season.

 

yea its n the floorboard. ill get a new dimmer switch and c what happens. thanks 4 the help