Question one. The three prong headlights are for the bright lights?
And are they located in the middle position. Or the outlets location
Also trying to find out what bulb to use for the rear side marker lights on 68’s
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Yes, the high beams are the inner lamps, however, they are two prong, not three as you had suggested. The three prong are low beam lamps (outer position). Rear side marker lights are # 1895.
The outer bulbs are a combined low and high beam with the three prongs for ground, low and high. The inner have only the high beam connection and ground. On brights all four bulbs are bright. On dim only the two outer are on.
im working the wiring kinks out, just want to confirm with regular lights on all four lights are lit, then when brights go on the outer all four stay on and the outside lights go brighter
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No. When the lights are on low beam, only the outer two are on. When the lights are on high beam, all four ore on. The outer two are two element lamps, three prong, one element is low beam and one is high beam. The inner two are one element lamps, two prong, they are high beam only.
Ok got most of the kinks worked out, bright lights and standard operating correctly with dimmer switch, also turn signal indicators working. Only problem is when i turn the lights on the rear driving lights are dim, and when i turn on the brights they are barely visible, the rear sidemarker lights though stay bright. I'm guessing its a low voltage issue as i have the car battery on a voltage tender and maybe its not providing enough voltage to the rear but i am looking for confirmation on this or if there is something else I should check
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Your rear tail lights could be dim because of the ground. The tail light sockets need to get good ground from the taillight housing. If one socket is not grounded good, it could make another socket dim. Make sure all tail light sockets in good shape and grounded good.
I agree with Harold. Most likely a ground issue. If the lamp is not grounded correctly that will result in a resistance to current flow. If another lamp in the same circuit is grounded correctly the current will take the path of least resistance and flow through the well grounded lamp more than the poorly grounded lamp, resulting in one lamp well illuminated and the other lamp poorly illuminated.
Just to follow up the ground is the connection of the lamp to the housing
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The lamp socket to the housing and the housing to the car. Power runs from the switch through the wire, into the socket, into the lamp, out of the lamp to the ground tab on the socket, from the ground tab to the housing, from the housing to the body, from the body to the ground wire to the engine block, from the block to the neg[-] post of the battery. Sometimes the ground strap from the body to the engine block is missing and the ground finds it's way through the mounts and other fasteners into the frame and to the block and eventually to the battery. Quite a few electrical snags with these cars are grounding problems.
Sometimes bending the ground tab on the light socket will improve the ground to the housing, also helps keep the socket attached to the housing. but there has to be good ground from the housing to the body.
The lamp socket to the housing and the housing to the car. Power runs from the switch through the wire, into the socket, into the lamp, out of the lamp to the ground tab on the socket, from the ground tab to the housing, from the housing to the body, from the body to the ground wire to the engine block, from the block to the neg[-] post of the battery. Sometimes the ground strap from the body to the engine block is missing and the ground finds it's way through the mounts and other fasteners into the frame and to the block and eventually to the battery. Quite a few electrical snags with these cars are grounding problems.
Make sure you have ground from battery to RH fender as well.
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