Re: Henry's 37 Limousine

Posted by Cli55er On 2017/2/7 13:56:26

I faintly remember testing the headlamp switch and i thought i picked a terminal on it to power the headlights that would have power in position 3. this way it was like a modern headlight switch...off/running/headlights and 4 would be ignored. but it ended up that position 4 still energizes the headlights and all, i just got lucky. I ended up liking it that way becuase then i didn't have to fight to find position 3, i could just pull the switch all the way out. but i do know the way i have it wired, i do get power to the headlights in 3 or 4, i just prefer 4 for obvious reasons.

I'd just have to get under there with a test lamp and check it out as you suggest and you are probably right as there are many terminals left over that i did not use. maybe one of them has power only in one postion and not both. or maybe 3 and 4 dont energize at the same time like i think they do.

my brain is already hurting though...so i think i'm just going to wire it up the way I drew it out. There really isn't any point to making them work in only one of the headlight switch positions as they are not really for fog and i'm going to want to keep pulling the switch out to 4 instead of hunting for 3. pulling the switch to 4 for headlights is great now and adding a switch for adding additional lighitng appeals to me.

as for knowing if the "fogs" are on...I should beable to tell just by the sheer brightening it provides infront of the car. that should tell me if i left the switch on on accident. or like you said i could buy a switch that has a light on it, but i'm partial to the solid metal toggle switches and the indicator light would be facing the floor anyways.

the turn signal switch i put in doesn't warm me either...and i'm still going to have to get used to remembering i turned it on and then need to turn it off after turning. i have little time behind the wheel so far and i will learn over time.

BIG thank you for helping me process all of this!!