Light Switch on a 65 Dodge Coronet

[Endangered Species]

I'm trying to get the head light to work on the race car. What I want to is run a hot wire from our main switch panel
Then run the black and red wire from the head lights to the switch also.

I'm trying to figure out which terminal his hot and which one is ground and which one to power the lights to.

I don't know if anyone has a schematic but the one in my service manual shows

Terminal D - Yellow Wire = Door Switch and Dome Light
Terminal I - Tan Wire = interment feed fuse panel
Terminal H - Light Green = high beam switch
Terminal R - Black Wire = plug ( it says "to body wiring") the wires coming out of it go to the bulk head plug
Terminal B1 - Black w/ Tracer - Battery Feed from fuse box (I'm assuming this is the Hot wire)
Terminal P - Yellow w/ Tracer = tail lights
Terminal B2 - Pink dome light & back up light

I want to break this down to it's simplest form.

Hot in to power the switch, then run the headlights directly off the switch.

If I go from the main switch panel we use to run the car to Terminal B1 that should power the switch.

If I'm looking at the schematic right.

The black wire from the head lights ends up at terminal L on the dimmer switch

The red wire ends up at terminal H on the dimmer switch.

The power to the dimmer switch is from terminal H from the head light switch.

I want to bypass the dimmer switch.

What do I do with the black wire from the headlight, do I just run it to ground? and the Red wire to the H terminal on the switch?

I hope this makes sense.

Thanks

Kevin

 

[moparsteve636]

Why don't you just use a toggle switch? Or are going for the original look?

 

[Endangered Species]

Yha that would be the easy way :laughing9:.

I'm going for the original look.

 

[Shorthorse]

The power input for the headlights is on B1. It is common to the Black wire on the ammeter. It does not go through the fuse panel. Its protection is the fusible link. Terminal H (light green) feeds the dimmer switch when the lights are on. From the dimmer switch the black wire feeds the low beams only and the red wire feeds the high beams (the outside lights have two elements (low & high) and the inside lights are a single element (high). If you are going to run low beams only, use the black wire from the dimmer switch to the headlights. Isolate & tape the red wire. All leads on the dimmer switch are power leads. Don't ground any of them. Grounding is done at the lamps.

http://www.mymopar.com/downloads/1965/65CoronetA.JPG
http://www.mymopar.com/downloads/1965/65CoronetB.JPG

 

[eric383]

X2 shorthorse, the only thing going through the switch is the positive. The negative should be constant(not run through the switch).

 

[Endangered Species]

Hey guys, thanks for all your help.

Stock switch works like a charm.