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Old 10-07-2013, 08:20 PM   #1
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Default Dome Light Wire Routing

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I am trying to install a new wire for the dome light of my deluxe coupe. I can't find a path to feed the wire around the top corner of the pillar. Page 468 of the Service Bulletins shows what the sketch of the town sedan calls a "wire conduit" at the top of the pillar. The sketch of the coupe also shows this part, but doesn't label it Can anyone help me to find this "conduit" or the correct wire route.

For the strange-findings file: There was no windshield wiper on this car when I bought it. The vacuum wiper was apparently converted to electric at some point. The hole in the intake manifold was plugged with a grease fitting. Behind the upholstery panel on the front header I found three wires connected. Each had a ring-tongue terminal, and the terminals were joined by a wood screw into the header. I think that this was how the dome light wire was tapped to supply the wiper motor.

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Old 10-15-2013, 12:37 AM   #2
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I don't know if this will help, but I have a Standard Fordor, and the "conduit" is not what we think of as modern conduit. I have recently wired mine, I think correctly, and the wire runs up the left stanchion and then runs in the "u" shaped channel of the metal header cover. Page 468 shows a conduit, which on mine, is merely a bent edge of the header cover. It may be different with the T.S. or Coupe, I don't know. I have no upholstery, so was able to remove the 4 or 5 screws of the header cover and push the wire in from the inside of the car. I am running a continuous wire rather than connecting into the header.
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Old 10-18-2013, 08:47 PM   #3
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Have you used an exam mirror to look down from the top. It's just a little hole. I wired mine to the power side of the brake light.
When you removed the old wire, did you think to solder the new wire onto the old wire and pull it through?
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