headlight switch rewire
 

ok so many moons ago i thought i found something on here that said how to jump your stock head light switch to make your parking lights work while the headlights are on? but for the life of me i cant find it can you all help me please?

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Start by locating the parking light wire on the headlight switch plug ... it should be a purple wire (right next to the light blue wire that goes to the headlight dimmer switch).

Next, find the empty cavity in the headlight switch connector (should be near the brown wire that powers the tail lights).

With the connector unplugged from the switch, extract the purple parking light feed wire by using a small screwdriver or terminal pick to carefully depress the latching tang on it's terminal. Pull the wire (with the terminal attached) out of the connector. Bend the terminal's latching tang back out a little and snap it into the previously identified empty cavity near the brown wire.

Note, if you have a truck with factory installed cab lights, that wire might already be occupying that otherwise empty terminal on the headlight switch connector.

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Thank you very much sir ;)

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If done this way, will the switch still turn on the parking lights when placed in the parking light indent?

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This is a switch that has had it done the purple wire is removed from the right by the blue wire to the empty one that was next to the green most of the switches the blue wire is actually yellow this could possibly have been replaced at one time

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All of you guys are so awesome here thank you for all your help i really love how this community bands together and goes out of their way to help others thank you very much guys this place is my home away from home :metal:

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Yes. This modification connects the parking lights to the tail light circuit (same as the newer GM vehicles). So pulling the knob out to the first notch turns on both the parking & tail lights (same as before). The only difference is the parking lights no longer turn off when the knob is pulled all the way out to the headlight position.


Yes, from what I've seen, GM changed the color code on that wire from light blue over to yellow sometime in the mid 1980's.

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Well, I found another thing that I'm going to do when I can get a chance to work on my truck again. Thanks Ray!

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I had no idea...what a great thread. Bookmarked for future use.

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Here is another link - http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=614234

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Just tried this and now wish I didn't. The purple wire is rather fragile and the connector broke off when I tried to pull the wire out of the plug.

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Been a while since it was re-wired?

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You can get new connectors but Yeah that’s a bummer