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Re: [Roadsters] Update: Instrument lighting

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Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Update: Instrument lighting
From: "SlowBoy" <slowboy@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:15:50 -0700
Pins 4 & 6 on the toggle switches are the ones close to each other sticking
out of the middle of the back of the switch. Pins 2 & 7 are the ones on
opposite sides of the switch closer to the dash. They are numbered and you
will see the numbers in pairs: 1 & 2, 3 & 4, 5 & 6, 7 & 8.

 

On this chart are the open and short measurements I took when I had my
switches disconnected from the harness.

 

http://www.311s.org/PDFs/1966%20Datsun%20Panel%20Switches%20and%20Wiper%20Mo
tor.pdf

 

Robb, if you haven't already done it, don't forget to bookmark the 311's
website.

 

http://311s.org/

http://www.311s.org/pmwiki-311/pmwiki.php

http://311s.org/phpBB3/index.php

 

 

Jim

SlowBoy

 

Peoria

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: datsun-roadsters-bounces@autox.team.net
[mailto:datsun-roadsters-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Pat Horne
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:57 AM
To: speeddemonrs
Cc: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Update: Instrument lighting

 

Robb,

 

Try swapping the GL and RY wires on the headlight switch. I couldn't 

find a diagram of the switch operation,

so this is based on the fact that the 67.5 and later cars turn off the 

parking lights when the headlights are on.

 

If you try the headlights, you should find that they don't work in the 

headlight position either, but do in the parking light

position. If  the headlights work correctly, check the tail lights to 

see if they stay on in both positions and get back with me.

 

Please also let me know which pins are connected to which in each 

position of the headlight switch.

 

Peace,

Pat

 

Thusly spake speeddemonrs, On 1/14/2009 1:50 AM:

> UPDATE:

> 

> Tore into the wiring harness to find two re/blue wire bound in the tape -

> hooked them up to the rheostat and SHAZAM! I now have dash lights!! BUT,
now

> the issue is that the dash lights come on when the switch is in the
parking

> light position and turn back off when the driving lights are on. Which is

> strange, since the parking lights do not turn off when the headlights are

> turned on. So I still have some sort of gremlin in there, but I am excited

> that I am getting much closer then I was at the beginning of the day.

> 

> I also took a look at the reverse lights at the back of the car - I have
two

> back there, and from the looks of what I can see on the web, there should

> only be one, towards the drivers side. When I look underneath at the

> brackets, it all seems to be stock. It doesn't look like a second light
was

> necessarily added to the mix, and the wiring harness doesn't looked
chopped

> to fit it in either. Hmmmm? 

> 

> Robb Shannon

> '66 1600 - Surprise, AZ

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