Gauge lights

[geostang351]

I need some help with getting my gauge lights to work. The stock lights did not work prior to putting in new autometer gauges. I used the same blue wire w/red stripe for my power source but I'm getting no power through these wires. I changed out the light switch with a new one thinking this was my problem but its not. I followed the blue/red wire to the light switch and checked with a meter and nothing. I'd follow the wire further but don't know where to follow it to asitwould chnage wire colors before the switch. Any ideas?

 

[HHStang]

lights and/or gauges not working?

 

[JamesW]

I need some help with getting my gauge lights to work. The stock lights did not work prior to putting in new autometer gauges. I used the same blue wire w/red stripe for my power source but I'm getting no power through these wires. I changed out the light switch with a new one thinking this was my problem but its not. I followed the blue/red wire to the light switch and checked with a meter and nothing. I'd follow the wire further but don't know where to follow it to asitwould chnage wire colors before the switch. Any ideas?

Take a circuit tester and track the circuit backwards. Clip one end to the center conductor of the lamp socket of the instrument panel. Now start probing backwards to find where the circuit breaks.
- Blue/Red into fuse box
- Blue/Red out of fuse box
- Blue/Red into backside of headlight switch socket
- (pull socket off headlight switch) other side of socket.

If you're good to that point, then you should be able to test your headlight switch by clipping one end to the spade of the black/orange wire, and the other end to the spade for the blue/red, then pull/dial the headlamp switch. You should see voltage at that point. If not, (and your regular headlights work), then you've got a bad headlamp switch.

 

[geostang351]

Take a circuit tester and track the circuit backwards. Clip one end to the center conductor of the lamp socket of the instrument panel. Now start probing backwards to find where the circuit breaks.
- Blue/Red into fuse box
- Blue/Red out of fuse box
- Blue/Red into backside of headlight switch socket
- (pull socket off headlight switch) other side of socket.

If you're good to that point, then you should be able to test your headlight switch by clipping one end to the spade of the black/orange wire, and the other end to the spade for the blue/red, then pull/dial the headlamp switch. You should see voltage at that point. If not, (and your regular headlights work), then you've got a bad headlamp switch.

The way I've traced the blue/red is from the gauages to the headlight switch. It is a new switch as the old switch also did not allow for the lights to work. Is the color from the fuse box to the switch blue/red too or is it the black/orange you state above?