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  1. Ellie Niner

    Headlight, driving lights.

    Ahh... I actually haven't checked out any of the blue tinted bulbs for many years, so have only speculated on their actual performance for the last 15 years or so. The tinting is a subtractive process, so it always takes light away... how much it subtracts is down to how deeply the bulb envelope...
  2. Ellie Niner

    strange noise

    I've had a similar sound when driving just like you said, but it was the power steering pump making the moaning or groaning sound. Even with reservoir full and everything else normal, when pushing into sharp turns (especially if you switch directions quickly and are stepping on it a bit), it's...
  3. Ellie Niner

    Headlight, driving lights.

    @SirRobyn0 Glad to hear you're seeing some improvement. After making sure your aim is as dead nuts as you can get it, I think err... almost know you'll see a big improvement after installing relays... incandescent/halogen bulb output drops rapidly with lower voltage, and stock wiring is pretty...
  4. Ellie Niner

    Headlight switch dimmer question

    Sounds sorta like my 1975. The left bedside flaps in the breeze when you're driving, and you could probably rip the driver's door off if you got mad enough, as the front pillar is pretty rotten. One thing I'm glad for is that I no longer live in a place where the roads are salted. Still...
  5. Ellie Niner

    Headlight switch dimmer question

    Yes. I've had driver's door switches get garbaged up on both of my trucks, and in both cases, the dome/courtesy/cargo light would either come on dimmer than normal or not come on at all when the driver's door was opened. Either turning the headlight switch or opening the passenger side door made...
  6. Ellie Niner

    Headlight switch dimmer question

    A morked up turn signal switch can screw with a lot of things. I played around with a worn out turn signal switch on my Lumina, and was able to get both front turn signals and indicators to flash on a left turn (but not right turn), make the dash warning lights and seatbelt chime come on when...
  7. Ellie Niner

    Can’t get these gauges to work…

    I'm kind of drawing a blank here... Try physically moving the needles on the inactive gauges to full scale with the ignition off (they should stay in roughly the same location you put them), then turn the ignition on and see if they return to zero. That should help determine if they're...
  8. Ellie Niner

    Ampmeter connection

    @Raider L It looks like there was a little solder on that connection, but somebody must have said "fʊck it" on the production line and just walked away half way through the process... or did someone else manage to bodge that up between 1974 and 1981? I have seen one or two things on my vehicles...
  9. Ellie Niner

    Headlight, driving lights.

    Excellent information! My only qualifier is that we're not quite there with LED's intended to replace halogen bulbs in forward lighting (headlamps). We've gotten to the point where there are *some* products that are able to make a compliant beam pattern in *some* headlamps, but there isn't a...
  10. Ellie Niner

    Headlight switch dimmer question

    That's the horn relay.
  11. Ellie Niner

    Headlight, driving lights.

    The yellow vs white thing mostly comes down to personal preference. I tend to like the yellow ones when driving in sea poup fog or heavy snow... and there are a few benefits to using yellow light in those conditions... but now that I'm in the desert, where just about everything is some shade of...
  12. Ellie Niner

    Headlight switch dimmer question

    Those tests eliminate the possibility of the rear lighting harness being shorted together (yellow wire for left brake/turn & dark green wire for right brake/turn)... but I'm not 110% sure on the front lighting harness (light blue for left turn & dark blue for right turn), so you might want to...
  13. Ellie Niner

    Headlight, driving lights.

    @SirRobyn0 Yup. I misinterpreted a bit (maybe because I'm the one needing mid beams) I think your planned Hella conversion and relays will give you more light where you want it. Do be careful with the fog lights... like 77 K20 said, you can overdo the foreground illumination so that it screws...
  14. Ellie Niner

    Headlight, driving lights.

    @SirRobyn0 I'm coming up with about the same thing you are... There just isn't anything currently on the market that would be a good at reaching out a bit farther than regular low beams and lighting up the midrange without blinding oncoming traffic... I've played around with automotive lighting...
  15. Ellie Niner

    Ampmeter connection

    @Raider L I'm pretty sure I'm following you, and it sounds like you've got it right! I remember those two fuseholders on my 1975... I recall there being 3amp fuses in there on mine. I had a rough time getting the factory shunted ammeter to read correctly... it tended to only twitch the needle...
  16. Ellie Niner

    Headlight switch dimmer question

    Okay. It sounds like you may have left and right brake or turn signal circuits shorted together somewhere. Here's a couple tests to help narrow it down: does the turn signal flasher still flash the lights when the parking lights are on? Does the hazard flasher work (the actual button on the...
  17. Ellie Niner

    84 K2500 292

    I think 1984 was the last year for the 250 in trucks. The 292 still appears in my 1986 factory service manuals. I'm betting '86 was the last year for it. Either way, welcome aboard!
  18. Ellie Niner

    Headlight, driving lights.

    Okay. The Hella 550 driving light produces a beam pattern good for use with high beams only. I was going to suggest the Hella XL, as they're a good auxiliary low beam, but they're long discontinued, sh¡t damn. I'll have some time later this afternoon to look at more stuff... Aux low beams are...
  19. Ellie Niner

    Ampmeter connection

    The feed from the alternator is the one you remove from the junction block (I'm presuming it's one of the three there) and extend it into the cab to ammeter terminal "A", then run a new wire from ammeter terminal "B" back out to the big lug on your junction block. I'm also assuming that every...
  20. Ellie Niner

    Headlight, driving lights.

    Okay... This is going to be a convoluted reply, but the automotive lighting market has become so fragmented in recent years that it's hard to make it simple, what with all the goofy toy headlights and so many things that used to be made here... now being made in a sweatshop in China...
  21. Ellie Niner

    Ampmeter connection

    Okay, yeah. That'll work just fine... I had a braindead moment when you mentioned junction block- d'oh! Now, I see three larger gauge red wires (one is kind of hiding behind another). Isn't one of those coming from your alternator? The wire coming from the alternator is the one you need to pull...
  22. Ellie Niner

    Ampmeter connection

    ^ Perfect. You'll be good to go with 10ga. Technically, yes, the fuse box is the junction box on your truck, but it's too far away from the battery in our trucks to be used as the point where the alternator connects to the battery. Though it's not 100% accurate, it's easier to visualize if you...
  23. Ellie Niner

    Headlight switch dimmer question

    @squarelyfe Okay. You won't have any dash lights unless you have tail lights first... the dash light circuit is fed off the tail light circuit. Your rear lights should be grounded at a common location in the rear. It should be on the underside of the box on the left side if I'm remembering...
  24. Ellie Niner

    Ampmeter connection

    @Raider L No. 12ga likely won't cut it here. How many amps is your alternator capable of putting out? As the instructions stated in your other thread, size the wire for 10 amps more than your alternator puts out. Unfortunately, this circuit is very critical to the health of your charging system...
  25. Ellie Niner

    Headlight switch dimmer question

    Oof. That's quite a list to tackle. You mention LED for the dome light... do you have LED bulbs installed in other positions? The reason I ask, is that some of them can create issues in lighting circuits that were designed for incandescents, and are hard to troubleshoot... this is especially...

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