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Turn signal wire harness
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Av68@reagan.com |
11-29-2023 @ 2:38 PM
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Hmm. If I understand your directions, it seems like a good bit of modifications to a wire kit sold for use in my ‘40 coupe. But here’s what I did. Per kit instructions, I spliced each of my front wires coming from the harness (yellow & green) into the existing wire leading to my 2 filament bulbs above the headlights. Should I have wired them direct & abandoned the existing connection on each side? Then I wired my red power wire from the harness into the discharge ( leading to the rear) side of my brake light switch. Then at the rear, I have 1 green wire which splits off with a green wire to each rear light. At each of those green wires that split off, I spliced in my orange & brown. wires. Orange to drivers side & brown to pass side. The license plate wire was left untouched. It’s fed from a black wire coming from the front of the car. But this license plate wire also has two other black wires spiced into it with both of those going to each taillight. So in essence all black wires are connected. I did not touch any of the black wires. What do you think?
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Jdome |
11-29-2023 @ 8:15 PM
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The brake light pigtail wires and parking light pigtails wires should be completely disconnected from the car's existing wire harness. The only (power) wires connected to those 4 filaments should be the appropriate L & R leads from the turn sw. The turn sw provides brake power or blinker power to L and R bulbs, depending on position of turn sw. The typical 7 wire switch does not have provision to switch the front bulbs between park power and blinker power so if you have stock single filament bulbs & sockets the park lights can no longer be used as park lights. There are turn switches with 8 or 9 wires that will do that or you can replace your original single park sockets with dual filament sockets. Wire the first filament of each socket to the original car wire harness and the second filaments to appropriate L / R blinker wire from turn sw.
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Av68@reagan.com |
11-30-2023 @ 4:19 PM
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Jdome; I am Leaving town thru December, so I can’t explore your directions until my return. When I return, I’ll touch base with you on what I did. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
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Av68@reagan.com |
02-11-2024 @ 4:54 PM
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Thank you to all for sharing your knowledge in responding to my turn signal questions. After much delay & life’s distractions, I finally got turn signals, flashers, head lights, license plate light & rear running lights. The only thing missing are front running lights. For now I’m going to take it as a win. I love this Forum!
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