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wlobb

04-22-2025 @ 12:26 PM

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Hi everyone. I am posting this diagram I got from Dennis Carpenter; it makes no sense to me. Am I crazy or is this drawing bad. i have the drawing from Shoebox Central, that seems a lot clearer to me.

Example. Top wire in the drawing marked G/O Green with orange connector. I know this pin is the wire for the brake lights and it is a green wire. when you follow that wire through the harness it's marked G/G. Again, I know this is the brake light wire. I am not too stupid, but this diagram has me baffled. I am attaching the Dennis drawing and the Shoebox drawing. If anyone can explain it to me, I'd be very grateful. I'd like to follow the speedway drawing but I'm not sure the switch is wired exactly the same way. I can trace the wires with my meter, but I'm still confused which wires go where.

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Bill

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mikecnc

04-23-2025 @ 9:08 AM

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I understand your confusion. I have a 53 Club Coupe and replaced my turn signal switch which I purchased from Carpenter's last summer.
A friend who has a 50 coupe and is very familiar with 49-53 flatheads helped with the replacement; we tried to follow the instructions enclosed with the replacement switch and had to resort to trial and error with him under the dash plugging wires into the harness block under the dash and me running around the car to determine which lights were affected. I took awhile to complete the replacement, but we eventually got it right. We were using the wiring diagram for the 52-53 Ford Repair Manual as well as the Carpenter instructions that came with the replacement switch which were not helpful since the wires on the replacement switch did not match the colors of the original factory wires, so try the Speedway diagram which has the factory color wires but be prepared for trial and error or trace the wires with your meter. Good Luck!

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04-23-2025 @ 5:20 PM

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Yeah man! I heard all that! Thank you! With my meter and the Shoebox diagram I got it, but my head was spinning!

Want to laugh? This is no lie, my cousin taught Quantum Physics at Harvard and University of Maryland, he's retired now, a car guy too. I sent him the Carpenter instructions, and he was baffled!

Thank for the reply! All good now!

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