Wiring hell, stumped-long. Options

[Hammy]

I'm having a lot more trouble with my lights than I thought I would.
First off, PO had the car wired so that the fogs would only turn on with brights. I see no point in that, but that's how it was wired. They had a black wire w/ blue stripe coming out from under the dash wiring harness area plugged into the #3 fuse. I think this black wire with blue stripe was supposed to go onto the fog light switch? There were only 2 wires plugged into the fog light switch when I found it.

I tried to do the fog light rewiring that required cutting a few wires, and piggybacking a few. I failed to get that to work.

So I bought a fog light flash kit and it's well made. I have it all wired up, and the fog lights were working with the ignition just like they're supposed to and would flash when I pulled the stalk back. My headlights would open up, but the headlights would NOT turn on, but parking lights would.

I turned the turn signal lever down to see if the signals would work and I lost my dash lights, and fog lights.

I know this has nothing to do with the fog light flasher kit, I'm not flaming on that. It's got to be the PO's wiring. I'm frusterated as hell. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif)

First off, what's supposed to go into the #3 fuse closest to the seat?

[lapuwali]

QUOTE (Hammy @ Nov 23 2005, 05:21 PM)

I must be stupid or don't understand these Haynes manual wiring diagrams because I'm getting more and more confused... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/sad.gif) Also I don't see that signal/hazard three prong relay on my fuse board. All I see are five prongs... where is it at?

It has four, not three, prongs, my apologies. It's item 47 on the wiring diagrams. The colored diagrams Pelican has on their site are substantially more readable than the B&W diagrams in Haynes. If you have '74, you can actually use the '73 diagram for most things, and the diagram is more readable than the current flow diagram for the '74. The '75 is quite different in several spots, and I can't help as much there.

The stock flasher unit is a metal case, round, and usually taller than the others relays. It MAY have been replaced with an aftermarket flasher that's not round and not metal, but it should still be the only one there with flat blade prongs instead of the round prongs on all of the others, except for the "dead bug" combo relay.

The best thing to do would be to get out a pad and pen and draw out JUST the part of the wiring diagram you need, so you understand how it all goes together. Lack of clutter helps immensely.