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In your headlight plug there is a red wire that feeds the switch with with power. The blue wire that is there also, is the feed wire for the headlights, and it runs to the dimmer switch on the floor board. The blue wire is not hot until the headlight switch is pulled out all the way. If you have a short in the plug between the red wire and the blue wire, then you would have headlights all the time. Did your headlights stay on when the switch plug was pulled off the headlight switch?

Here is a picture of the switch and how the wires go.