Hey bubba,
Thanks for the info; I will try it when I get home this evening. It sounds like you have the expertise help out a lot of us old shade tree mech’s. I built my first engine when I was 14, Pontiac 389, back; I think it was around 1970, man that was a long time ago. And I’ve been under and on top of cars ever since. But let me throw another twist into the scenario, when I came out this morning, Waite a minute, let me back up a bit and set the stage a little better for you. the park light was an issue, but when I lost half of my instrument cluster is when I started looking into things and found out the light switch was bad and the harness was not much better so they got replaced, it took care of the cluster problem, but that annoying park light problem was still there, and I might add that I have no interior lights at all either. I know it gets complicated. But as I was saying ,this morning when I headed out to work, for some reason I turned the key just to the on position why, I really don’t know ,the park lights came on like they always do, even though they shouldn’t, but I guess after putting on the seat belt and messing around with the coffee mug ,etc, I happened to reach for the lights, and in doing so somehow I turned the knob a little, you know the dimmer switch , by the way the dimmer switch did not work either the way it’s is suppose to, even with the new switch. Here’s the kicker, the park lights dimmed, Ya I know, weird, with the key on, car not running, light switch off, the park lights are on and they will dim all the way down and back up to maximum with the dimmer switch. That’s right; the dimmer switch is controlling the park lights, not the instrument cluster and interior lights. But when you turn the lights all the way on, the dimmer part that was running the park lights disengages, and the park light stay on like their suppose to, but will not dim anymore with the switch. So I’m thinking that maybe whoever had the car before me, had the dash out and maybe switched the wires somehow on the light switch itself, if that’s possible, I don’t know for sure, and even if the relationship between the two wires and where they tie in, could allow for this problem to happen, or not. I don’t know yet, which wires they are, and where they go. So that’s where the schematic will come in, I hope. I really haven’t been able to find a good schematic that specifically shows the light switch, color codes, and just which wire goes where. So maybe with all the help, I can solve the problem. But I’ll take a look at what you’ve told me to check, and any other Ideas you might have, or anyone else has, tell I get it right. It just bugs the crap out of me when things don’t work the way they are designed to. Thanks for the help,sorry I had to reply back this way, I’m having a problem with the format of this site.
Steve
