Hey people my name is joe and i am new to the club i have just bought a 1975 datsun 120y and am in the process of rwc and have come across a problem with the front parkers/headlights to the point that i pull the headlight swich to parkers and the low beam comes on aswell unless the swich on the steering colum is swiched to high beam then it is just the parkers. i have however replaced the headlight swich twice any help would be great thankyou all and good job on the forum...

There is NOTHING wrong with your headlight switch. ALL right drive Datsun 1200 & 120Y's were made like that.
If you can find an owners manual, it will describe the operation.

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There you go, you can read mine. Don't bother reading the center column as it deals with left drive models.

Its easy enough to unsolder the wires on top of the switch to fix it like normal. Ive done it many times at the request of customers and my own 1200s

awesome thanx heaps guys i was really getting ticked off with it lol this is my first datsun my last ride was a suzuki 800 hatch

Clearly you have moved upmarket.

hell yeah lol there is one thing that i am doing to it tho and thats the SR20det convertion but keepin it pretty stock on the outside make it a sleeper.

They still make the 1400 bakkies in S A with the lights that way

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Neat tip there Phunk, any chance you can recall [which terminals] or have a pic of this mod.

thanks in advance.