72 courtesy lights and mystery wire
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Burning Brakes
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72 courtesy lights and mystery wire
I was looking into why my courtesy lights are not working. I found a broken bulb so that was easy I thought. I cleaned it up and I have the driver side working. Problem is now it is on all the time. So I did some tracking of wires. Under the console the cigarette light wire is plugged into the yellow wire labeled PKG SW conn on the wire diagram. I know the cigarette light wire is hot but what is the yellow wire for and could this be my issue?
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Are all of your courtesy lights staying on or just the drivers side? Hard to tell from your post.
My experience with the courtesy lights on my 70 has always been the original door switches. The part that moves is usually the part that fails.
If my courtesy lights stay on all of the time, I simply twist or jiggle the plunger on the drivers side door a bit, then test it buy pushing it in. A twist or two is usually all that is needed to reposition the wire that is grounded and keeping the lights on.
My experience with the courtesy lights on my 70 has always been the original door switches. The part that moves is usually the part that fails.
If my courtesy lights stay on all of the time, I simply twist or jiggle the plunger on the drivers side door a bit, then test it buy pushing it in. A twist or two is usually all that is needed to reposition the wire that is grounded and keeping the lights on.
Last edited by Revi; 04-05-2017 at 11:05 AM.
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Burning Brakes
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Are all of your courtesy lights staying on or just the drivers side? Hard to tell from your post.
My experience with the courtesy lights on my 70 has always been the original door switches. The part that moves is usually the part that fails.
If my courtesy lights stay on all of the time, I simply twist or jiggle the plunger on the drivers side door a bit, then test it buy pushing it in. A twist or two is usually all that is needed to reposition the wire that is grounded and keeping the lights on.
My experience with the courtesy lights on my 70 has always been the original door switches. The part that moves is usually the part that fails.
If my courtesy lights stay on all of the time, I simply twist or jiggle the plunger on the drivers side door a bit, then test it buy pushing it in. A twist or two is usually all that is needed to reposition the wire that is grounded and keeping the lights on.
Looks like it was the plunger. But I still can't find what the yellow wire is for. Even through it is on the diagram. I can't find anything about it.
Joey
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Burning Brakes
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Burning Brakes
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I think I figured the yellow wire out. It is for the seatbelt warning light. But my car is a very early one and my seatbelt light is a timer switch in the dash. They changed this for the Dec and later cars. My car is a Aug of 71 so I would not have the later switch in the seat.
Joey
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