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indicator lights 3 to 2 wires?

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:48 pm
by Tony_Whenua
changed the old rusty front indicator lights to new ones ... prob is its going from 3 wires to 2.
What do I do?

Re: indicator lights 3 to 2 wires?

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 9:09 pm
by Bartman
The fronts are park lights too aren't they?

Re: indicator lights 3 to 2 wires?

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:04 pm
by Tony_Whenua
Yeah they are

Re: indicator lights 3 to 2 wires?

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:15 pm
by mint16
Taiwanese lights.
The extra wire could be the earth?

Re: indicator lights 3 to 2 wires?

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 5:24 pm
by Tony_Whenua
I tried to follow the wires back but they go into the main cable ... didn't want to inspect to much further but will just get a volt meter and trial something that way.

Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 7:42 pm
by datsunboy
Yep. Third wire will be earth

Re: indicator lights 3 to 2 wires?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:44 pm
by Tony_Whenua
So I did some wire searching etc and found the indicator and park light wires and the third which goes all the way back into the firewall ... Going to just remove this wire completely or will this affect the system/circuit?
Do I need to loop this earth wire with any of the others?

Re: indicator lights 3 to 2 wires?

Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 5:57 pm
by Tony_Whenua
Tony_Whenua wrote:So I did some wire searching etc and found the indicator and park light wires and the third which goes all the way back into the firewall ... Going to just remove this wire completely or will this affect the system/circuit?
Do I need to loop this earth wire with any of the others?
Update: each earth from both sides are linked together and go all the way back to the connection inside the firewall. I'm tempted to remove completely as I see no reason to keep...?
Have found and replaced a melted connection at the firewall too.

Re: indicator lights 3 to 2 wires?

Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 4:11 pm
by Tony_Whenua
main lights wont turn off

Re: indicator lights 3 to 2 wires?

Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:33 pm
by mint16
Earth the earth wire, dont remove it.
Change as little as possible to prevent creating issues.