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Headlight & Taillight Rewire plus dash lights

 

Michael Alvarez
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This might help someone and I wish I visited old forums before this adventure, but will benefit anyways. I had the displeasure of rewiring my lights mainly due to fire hazard. I removed all ignition and headlight wires a year ago, immediately replaced ignition but left headlights disconnected. After getting carb straightened out(leaking issue) I focused on wiring which finally led me to lights(rear(tail/brake) and front). The worst part of the process was the light contacts(thumbtack type are a horror to replace. After visiting an old forum, Tiny referred to YNZ                                                                         ( https://www

.store.ynzyesterdaysparts.com/electrical-terminals-and-connectors/terminals/wire-end-contact-for-lamp-bulb-sockets.html) for socket type light contacts which will make life ten times easier. The wiring is temporary until I order fabric covered for the vintage look. The lights work well now but a painful process(light sockets only). Pictures are worth a thousand words.I reused the dash light wires but reconnected splice and most importantly soldered all contacts(lugs and light contacts of course. 

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35mike
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@michael-alvarez Michael, Nice Results!! I don't remember ever seeing that thumbtack style connector on any of my cars.

 

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Nor have I.

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Michael Alvarez
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That’s good to know, contacts made the process extremely unpleasant. I had to strip wire, slide heat shrink behind stripped wire, center contact in wire, twist wire around tack, solder stripped wire with tack inserted while trying to keep circumference small enough to fit through insulator after heating shrink over wire/tack mess, what fun. The thumbtack contacts were the worst part of the installation. It will be a pleasure using the barrels instead. I will order far more barrel contacts than needed and simply cut and dispose or save for later versus trying to remove wire and solder from barrel if mistake is made(I have wick and a solder sucker but time consuming and frustrating. 


   
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