Headlight switch.
Hello,
I have a 72 Duster out back and can't get the headlights, turn signals or taillights to work.
The car sat for years before it came here. Long story short, this was a project for my brother in law who later lost interest and sold it to me.
We put it together on the cheap so there are parts in it that were junkyard fresh. One of them is the underhood wiring and the instrument cluster.
The headlight switch in the instrument panel has a tang on the housing which looks like it is meant for a ground strap. I see nothing like that inside the dash frame. I used to get a lot of parts from the self serve junkyards so this panel could be from a 73-74 model. I don't have a factory service manual for the 1972 models and the 1971 book that I have shows different wire colors on the bulkhead plug than I have here.
Using a test light, nothing forward of the bulkhead plug gets power. None of the taillight sockets do either. I tried another headlight switch but it too has that tang on the housing and I wasn't sure if it needed to be grounded.
Did the '72 models come with this type of headlight switch and somehow the ground wire got lost on this one?
Hello,
I have a 72 Duster out back and can't get the headlights, turn signals or taillights to work.
The car sat for years before it came here. Long story short, this was a project for my brother in law who later lost interest and sold it to me.
We put it together on the cheap so there are parts in it that were junkyard fresh. One of them is the underhood wiring and the instrument cluster.
The headlight switch in the instrument panel has a tang on the housing which looks like it is meant for a ground strap. I see nothing like that inside the dash frame. I used to get a lot of parts from the self serve junkyards so this panel could be from a 73-74 model. I don't have a factory service manual for the 1972 models and the 1971 book that I have shows different wire colors on the bulkhead plug than I have here.
Using a test light, nothing forward of the bulkhead plug gets power. None of the taillight sockets do either. I tried another headlight switch but it too has that tang on the housing and I wasn't sure if it needed to be grounded.
Did the '72 models come with this type of headlight switch and somehow the ground wire got lost on this one?