Re: Tail light backing for 23 series
Posted by HH56 On 2016/2/22 20:24:42
There is something called a reinforcement, tail light to fender mounting for the 23rd series. No photos of the thing and I have no idea what it is but it might be some kind of plate to go inside the trunk that the studs from housing would pass thru.
I can't help with a photo of your specific model courtesy light but they are all about the same postwar. Here is a smaller version of your lamp as was used on models with multiple lights. The wiring diagram is from the 23rd series schematics.
There should be two short wires coming out of the lamp socket with a small square tab on the ends. The wires in the courtesy lamp loom will be separate from the bunch going to the trunk. For your car with a single over window lamp it will only be two wires ending at the lamp -- again with the small brass tabs. Those connect to the two from lamp with inline connectors -- doesn't matter which is which..
Tracing the wire route backwards from the lamp, there will be two splices above the pillar behind the driver. One in the hot wire going all the way to the floor and exiting a notch at the bottom of the pillar. It will have another small tab and connects under the carpet with an inline connector to the wire coming from the front seat. On your car with no lamps in the seat back it will only supply the cigar lighter. The top wire continues on forward, down the left windshield pillar and exits with the bunch from the trunk. Should connect to the aux circuit breaker on the back of instrument cluster.
The other wire coming from the lamp could be done one of two ways. One would have two splices and wires going down the pillar -- one wire goes to the pillar switch and the other to the switch which is operated by the door. The other way would be a single splice at the top for the pillar switch wire and the second splice occurring in that pillar switch wire but located a few inches into the pillar. That second wire would go down to the door switch. Typically the top wire above headliner will continue forward, go above the windshield and back on the right side to the center pillar and drop down to the switch operated by the passenger side rear door. The pre 55 cars I've looked at have all had that routing but I can't positively say they never continued across the rear window and then forward with the wire to the passenger side door switch.
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I can't help with a photo of your specific model courtesy light but they are all about the same postwar. Here is a smaller version of your lamp as was used on models with multiple lights. The wiring diagram is from the 23rd series schematics.
There should be two short wires coming out of the lamp socket with a small square tab on the ends. The wires in the courtesy lamp loom will be separate from the bunch going to the trunk. For your car with a single over window lamp it will only be two wires ending at the lamp -- again with the small brass tabs. Those connect to the two from lamp with inline connectors -- doesn't matter which is which..
Tracing the wire route backwards from the lamp, there will be two splices above the pillar behind the driver. One in the hot wire going all the way to the floor and exiting a notch at the bottom of the pillar. It will have another small tab and connects under the carpet with an inline connector to the wire coming from the front seat. On your car with no lamps in the seat back it will only supply the cigar lighter. The top wire continues on forward, down the left windshield pillar and exits with the bunch from the trunk. Should connect to the aux circuit breaker on the back of instrument cluster.
The other wire coming from the lamp could be done one of two ways. One would have two splices and wires going down the pillar -- one wire goes to the pillar switch and the other to the switch which is operated by the door. The other way would be a single splice at the top for the pillar switch wire and the second splice occurring in that pillar switch wire but located a few inches into the pillar. That second wire would go down to the door switch. Typically the top wire above headliner will continue forward, go above the windshield and back on the right side to the center pillar and drop down to the switch operated by the passenger side rear door. The pre 55 cars I've looked at have all had that routing but I can't positively say they never continued across the rear window and then forward with the wire to the passenger side door switch.
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