tail lights

[John Suter]

Bruce,

Try to connect an independent, temporary ground to
the tail lights in order to rule out a ground problem
early in the diagnosis. My experience has been, 9 out
of 10 times, the ground has been at fault when I
received otherwise confusing results.

John Suter
P.S. your yahoo account below, indicates no longer in
service.


--- fl_bluebird_1983
wrote:

> My tail lights quit working, so I started at the
> breaker behind the
> driver side headlight (breaker#6) I have power
> leaving there. I
> checked at the terminal block above the batterys and
> it is dead
> there, so I opened up the dash to get to the switch
> and I have power
> there. With the switch in the parking lights
> position the dash lights
> up green and the parking (tail)lights come on like
> they should(2 of
> the 4 tail lights). With the switch in the
> headlights position the
> headlights come on but no taillights, but the break
> lights work fine.
> My question how does it get from the switch to the
> terminal block
> above the batterys? Is there a relay or some other
> fuse between the
> switch and the terminal block. Also does anyone have
> a wiring diagram
> for the headlight switch. The switch has 6 wires
> red= hot
> green= hot
> orange= headlights
> blue= guage lights
> black/orange= parking & green dash lights (crimped
> together on same
> lug)
>
> with this setup I'm not sure how you can turn on the
> tail lights
> without using the orange from the headlights,
> because the
> black/orange wires are dead when the switch is in
> the headlight
> position. Otherwise
> the dash would be glowing green anytime the
> headlights were on, but
> that would turn on the tail lights
>
> Thanks
> Bruce Campbell
> Clearwater, FL
> 83'FC 35 SB
> "Blue Skies"
>
>
>
>
>


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