86 light switch

OonDeanisS · Apr 8, 2005

ok so i need to put the wires onto the dimmer/headlight switch, and I dont know which order they go in. If anyone has an easy to read wiring diagram even with just the colors of the seven wires that would be great.

i already know this much:

1. two thin brown wires ---> parking lights
2. blk/blu ---> dome light
3. grn/yel ---> fuel door
4. blu/red ---> ? (these two were connected...)
Yel/red ---> ? (...and light up inst. panel and turn signal indicators together)
5. blk/orange ---> 12V power
6. Brn/wht ---> ?
7. black ---> ?

thanks

mirage86 · Apr 8, 2005

When I replaced my headlight switch, the plastic harness that kept the wires in the order they needed to be in crumbled to pieces. I could not locate a good diagram, I stopped by the ford dealer and they had a harness with pigtails. I just matched the wires and connected them and plugged it into my headlight switch. I believe the one he sold me was for a 90's ranger, but if it's a ford vehicle with the pull/push switch I'm pretty sure it's the same thing. I paid 15-20 bucks for it. I ran across a switch from a 76 ford van and it was the same one.
I know it's not the answer you were looking for.

OonDeanisS · Apr 8, 2005

you have an 86? thanks for the info ill try that... by pigtails you mean short wires that are in the correct order?

mirage86 · Apr 8, 2005

OonDeanisS said:
you have an 86? thanks for the info ill try that... by pigtails you mean short wires that are in the correct order?

Yea I've got an 86, and yea that's what I'm callin pigtails. It's been awhile since I've done that but it was not a big deal once I got that harness. Good luck

OonDeanisS · Apr 9, 2005

does the switch itself ever go bad? i tried almost every wire on almost every terminal to see what does what...

Scones · Apr 9, 2005

well my switch won't turn on the dome light unless i turn it so hard it's like i want to brake it lol

OonDeanisS · Apr 9, 2005

ok i went to the Ford dealer... and they said that both the headlight switch and the connector w/ pigtails are out of stock, and to try Levine's. The switch was 81 dollars and the connector w/pigtails was 29.

at Levines, the switch was 29, and they didnt carry the connector. So my problem is still i dont know where to put what wire, because my old connector will still work.

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OonDeanisS · Apr 14, 2005

alrite... i got the harness with pigtails from a junkyard mustang, and it had all the same wires, but no solid black wire.

the red/yel wire was also on a seperate prong than the blu/red wire, whereas mine are connected and went to the same prong. Soooo... i plugged it in and tried them on both free prongs, and neither fixed the problem...

Now the turn signal indicators stay on with the parking/headlights, and they dont work with the lever.

Also, the black wire that my car has and the harness didnt lights up the dash guages that dont work without it, but it also lights up the turn signal indicators...

And... when i click the lever to highbeams, only the passenger one comes on and the lowbeams stay on too.

im about to set this ******* car on fire.

OonDeanisS · Apr 15, 2005

so noone knows where the black ground wire goes onto the headlight switch?

mirage86 · Apr 16, 2005

Myabe this will help. I pulled my switch out and looked at the set up. My switch has two harnesses. One with nine wires and one that plugs in behind it with two wires. I did not have to replace the one with two wires as that it was still intact. The two wire harness has a black wire on the left of the harness and a black/purple wire on the right side. Both go up behind the dash. I discovered that I have to wires mismatched but apparantly they serve the same purpose because I have no problems.

The switch (wire color/stripe)
_____________________________________________
Ora/Bla (top right corner)
Bla/Ora (bigger gauge)(First wire) Yel/Bla(2nd wire) 3rd (blank)
Brn/Whi (1st wire) Solid Brn (2nd wire) Grn/Yel (3rd wire)
1st and 3rd spot blank Red/Yel(2nd wire)
Blu/Red (1st wire) (2nd Blank) Bla/Purp(3rd wire)

_________Front of switch Looking Down at wires____

Here is how mine is connected. If looking at the colors above, I'm starting at the bottom line and going left to right and working to the top. First colors will be the switch wire and seconds colors will be the wire I connected to.

Blu/Red -- Blu/Red
Bla/Pur -- Bla/Blu
Red/Yel -- Red/Yel
Brn/Whi -- Ora/Bla (Mismatched)
Solid Brn -- Not hooked to anything (Clipped)
Grn/Yel -- Grn/Yel
Bla/Ora -- Bla/Ora (Bigger Gauge)
Yel/Bla -- Not hooked to anything (Clipped)
Ora/Bla -- Brn/Whi (mismatched)

Maybe this will help. Sorry if it is oversimplified, just wanted to make sure that I made sense.
Later

OonDeanisS · Apr 16, 2005

when you say you had nine in the bigger harness, you mean 7 prongs, but the black and the brown had 2 each correct?

mirage86 · Apr 16, 2005

The bigger harness on my switch has 9 wires. Each to its own prong. Have you got wires doubled up to prongs on your switch?

OonDeanisS · Apr 17, 2005

i dont have fog lights, and my harness has 9 holes for prongs, but only 7 have wires going to them, as my headlight switch only has 7 prongs, but i have 9 wires.

I got a junkyard headlight switch harness with pigtails that has these eight wires:

1- blue/red
2- Black/blue
3- Red/Yellow
4&5- two Brown wires on one prong
6- Lt. green/yellow
7- Black/Orange (thicker guage)
8- Tan/White

this is looking from the knob side down onto the top of the junkyard switch, from bottom left to right. like this:
.......................
|.... 7 ....... 8 ..|
|.. 4&5 ..... 6 ..|
|........ 3 .........|
|... 1 ........ 2 ..|
|.....................|
|.......knob.......|

Now on my car, there is an extra wire that is all black and has a prong clip on it like all the others (except the red/yel wire which was connected to the blue/red wire and thus left an open prong for the black wire)

The junkyard harness didnt have a black wire.

When i hook up all the others to their own color (taking apart the red/yel and blu/red) and leave the black disconnected, the headlights work, the dome light works, high beams only passenger side comes on with the low beams, and the bright light indicator and turn signal indicators stay on.

If i touch the black wire to the blk/blu wire(dome light power), the indicators come off and the instrument lights come on like they should, but the dome light comes on a little too, and if i turn the dome light on, the instrument lights go off and indicators come on.

sorry its so complicated, but i tried to make it easy to read. thanks for al your help

mirage86 · Apr 17, 2005

Do you have a small harness behind the big one for just two wires? I'm about to leave for a little bit but when I get back, I'll go and check the black wire on mine to see where it is going.

OonDeanisS · Apr 17, 2005

No my switch only has one harness. Thanks a lot for your help.

mirage86 · Apr 17, 2005

Check your PM

OonDeanisS · Apr 17, 2005

anyone else? despite mirage86's efforts, he has a different switch than i do. Does anyone have a headlight switch without the 2 wire harness?

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