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10/25/08 10:11 AM
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My 71 New Yorker's parking lights died yesterday. I have headlights, turn signals, brake lights, flashers, but no running lights, no instrument lights. For good measure I swapped out ALL the 20A fuses for new ones (none of them looked bad but they were pretty old), and took apart the bulkhead connectors and cleaned them up. Fired the car back up, no luck. Any ideas? Should I be hunting for a missing ground? Did my light switch in the dash go bad?

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Re: Help - Electrical guys - no parking lights [Re: Mass_Mopar] #141238
10/25/08 11:26 AM
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Did my light switch in the dash go bad?


Take the connector off the light switch & jump 12V to the parking lights terminal in the connector & see if you're good. That'll tell you if it's the switch or downstream.


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Re: Help - Electrical guys - no parking lights [Re: Mass_Mopar] #141239
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Are you getting a feed from the headlamp switch for the tail lamps and panel lamps? Should be able to check for power at the headlamp switch and also at the fuse for the tail lamps. Usually the panel lamps fuse is fed off the tail lamp feed so if you lose tail lamps you will also lose panel lamps.

Re: Help - Electrical guys - no parking lights [Re: Mass_Mopar] #141240
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Should I be hunting for a missing ground? Did my light switch in the dash go bad?




That's where I'd start. You can follow the socket wire to the ground screw and remove and clean the connection to the body, or you can us a volt meter between the +12 wire in the socket and a ground point on the body if you have +12 there the light switch feed is ok. Then check the socket for +12 across the two pins (+12 and ground) If you get less than +12 it's a ground problem.

Re: Help - Electrical guys - no parking lights [Re: Lefty] #141241
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Should I be hunting for a missing ground? Did my light switch in the dash go bad?




That's where I'd start. You can follow the socket wire to the ground screw and remove and clean the connection to the body, or you can us a volt meter between the +12 wire in the socket and a ground point on the body if you have +12 there the light switch feed is ok. Then check the socket for +12 across the two pins (+12 and ground) If you get less than +12 it's a ground problem.




THIS IS NOT a ground problem, probably. IN order for this to be a ground problem, you'd have to lose the ground path on BOTH the parking lighs and instrument lights, which are completely separate

I'd say a bad switch, or the connector/ connection on the switch. I didn't bother o check the diagram, but if the it could be in the fuse circuit, too.

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10/25/08 04:27 PM
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Sounds like the headlight switch to me too. Get a diagram and jump it out to straight power, (the brown wire in the connector I think) If that works its the switch, if not its farther downstream.


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Re: Help - Electrical guys - no parking lights [Re: Mass_Mopar] #141243
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Thanks guys, swapped a headlight switch in from a 72 Sportsman van, worked and fit perfectly







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