Originally Posted by
MikeP
If you hear a click when you move the joystick then the circuit to the motors is OK. I suspect it's a clutch issue in the searchlight. There are two motors and two sets of clutches. The clutches can stick and not allow the motor to turn.
When we bought our 53MY in '04 the light didn't elevate/traverse so I disassembled it, installed new clutches and cleaned the little gearboxes (one for each motor). It worked correctly after that but I have found that if you don't periodically exercise the light left/right and up/down, the clutches tend to begin sticking again and the movement of the light will be very sluggish until you have run it through its travel a few times.
The clutches are not technically difficult to adjust but they are a bit fiddly.