Dome light install issues
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From: Shelton, WA.
Dome light install issues
This may be an odd question.
That truck I got didn't have a dome light in it when I got it. All's that's left is the little connector thingy and the screws that held the original in place.
I'm wanting to install the dome light/reading light combo out of an '89 Taurus into the truck, and I was wondering how I'd go about doing this.
I've used a test light, and I'm not getting it to light when I connect one to the connector and connect the other contact to the body. Could I be missing a wire, or were these lights a positive wire with a negative chassis ground or vice versa?
If anyone has any input or advice, let me know.
Thanks in advance.
That truck I got didn't have a dome light in it when I got it. All's that's left is the little connector thingy and the screws that held the original in place.
I'm wanting to install the dome light/reading light combo out of an '89 Taurus into the truck, and I was wondering how I'd go about doing this.
I've used a test light, and I'm not getting it to light when I connect one to the connector and connect the other contact to the body. Could I be missing a wire, or were these lights a positive wire with a negative chassis ground or vice versa?
If anyone has any input or advice, let me know.
Thanks in advance.
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Dome light install issues
Those map light/dome lights take way too much fabrication or I'm an idiot cause I couldn't do it.
The mounting system is different.
I would have really liked to have done a swap on mine.
I have the light and all but,couldn't figure how to swap them in without doing damage.
The mounting system is different.
I would have really liked to have done a swap on mine.
I have the light and all but,couldn't figure how to swap them in without doing damage.
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Joined: Nov 2002
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From: Memphis, TN
Dome light install issues
I'm not familiar with the old trucks or the Taurus, but do either of them look like the black plastic ones in this pic? I'd suspect that it would be pretty easy to pick up the dome harness from an '80-96 F-series in a junkyard & put it in, but if you didn't want to fight the little screw terminals, you could use the plug that late Mustangs (for example) use to connect to the same lamp. They have a plastic insulator to keep the mounting screws from making contact, like the trucks' screws do.
