Re: Adventures with a 1955 Clipper
Posted by HH56 On 2011/6/29 20:06:04
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BH wrote:
WRT to this mysterious green wire, since your car has the optional back-up lights, I wonder if this is some leftover from the conversion to standard trans.
The backing lights run on circuit #33, which involves dark green wires, but the feed comes from the heater blower circuit, which appears to be a harness splice.
That sounds very possible. The original switch is no longer there so there should be an extra 2 wires--unless the regular backup light switch for standard trans was installed and wires run. If that's the case, then still a mystery. If the mystery wire happens to be the dk green with white tracer, then hooking to the battery would do everything you said. The path would be back thru the heater fuse to the buss bar where the normal fuse feed end would be common to several other fuses. Via fuses and splices would then supply all the regular places including the ign switch thru the heater fuse first.
Interesting they would choose to feed the backup lights off the heater circuit instead of somewhere else such as body feed or more typical light places. Wonder what their reasoning was.
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