Thread: '51 Chevy taillight wiring
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07-09-2012 08:19 PM #1
'51 Chevy taillight wiring
I just got the brake light circuit fixed ( installed pressure switch instead of old mech switch ). Rewired the front parking lights/ turn signals and they are working fine, but I got a tail/ stop light out now. I thought it would be a good idea to rewire the tails anyway. So I got the diagrams out. Now the fun part comes, because the turn signals are dealer installed using a self canceling Guide 6004 switch. So the main diagram to the car does not include the turn switch, and all the taillight wiring goes thru the switch in 1 way or another.. I have the diagram to the turn signal system but it only covers that system and shows 1 wire going to the tails, when I know there are 2 as per the other diagram and my eyes tell me so.. What makes it worse is ALL the tracers are the same for brake/ stop and they all run down the drivers frame rail
What filaments are supposed to do what? I'v got turn signals on the left and right, parking lights on front and the right rear, stop lights on the right rear.. I can pass inspection with 1 brake light, but I want it right, at least for this year.. For next year, I think I'll rewire it all, and just buy a few miles of various colors and make it up myself. It's only got like 3 fuses, tho I'd probably add an easilly accessable fuse for every circuit with a rewire.. Orig look cloth coated poly harness is $500 for the main harness and $50-100 for the add on harnesses. In my case, I would need the main harness ( $500 ), powerglide harness ( reverse light, and NSS wiring, $100 ), taillight harness ( $50 ) and I think the Horn harness is a seperate $50 harness too. I'm not that stuck on original looking wires.. Car is on the road, I'm just working the bugs outYou don't know what you've got til it's gone
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