Nice car.



Sounds like the wiring or retractor motor is messed up. You can find PDFs of FSMs for every generation online.



Manuals



Here is a the lighting wiring diagram from the 85 FSM.



Wiring diagram



Check the + shaped connector at the retractor motor. When the red wire sees 12V the retractor motor should go up. When the red/yellow wire sees 12V the retractor should go down. If you just want to disable the left side, leave the connector unpluged and use the knob to turn it down manually.



Ron

84 GSLSE

74 RX-4

This is ridiculous. No matter what I do, one headlight always ends up in the opposite position of the other!



I disconnected the fusible link for the retractor and illum fuse in the fuse box, adjust the thing manually down (or up doesnt matter) and as soon as I put the link and fuse back in it goes right to the OPPOSITE position of the other light. My neighbor looked at me like I'm ****** crazy. I'm out there for half an hour just laughing at this thing as I keep turning it and the damn lights are going up and down like they're posessed.



When you turn the adjustment knob to the point where you hear a click, I believe that is some sort of contact point that is either full up or full down. So when I adjust it all the way around twice and back to right past the point of this clicking, it thinks it wants to go back to its original position for some reason. I can't understand why I'd have to disconnect the linkage and reposition it that way but maybe I do??

That's exactly what you need to do. Disconnect the linkage to the motor. Turn the motor 180 degrees, and re-connect.