Wiring for the front lights

rwt101 · Oct 11, 2017

I was wondering if someone can tell me or show a picture of how the front light have wire s run so they clear the fan and pulleys .
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OBwan · Oct 11, 2017

I wired mine to run up the left side with the rest of the wiring, but just past the alternator I spliced in a bullet connector. Makes it easier if necessary to remove the hood. The wire for the left light runs to the connector. The right wire is spliced into the left and it runs up and over the fan in some vacuum hose and is held in place with some zip ties. There should be some holes in the brace at the front end of the fuel tank.

tractorguy2 · Oct 11, 2017

I think they had wire clips on the radiator tank seam to hold the light wires

tractorguy2 · Oct 11, 2017

That's right the wire clips snap on to the front seam of the fuel tank. Not the radiator tank like I stated earlier.

rwt101 · Oct 11, 2017

Thanks that gives me a good place to start.

Tim PloughNman Daley RIP · Oct 12, 2017

Get out your '39-'53 MPC as it has the lighting/wiring sketches. Lighting kits, a dealer optional accessory, never factory installed, contained 7 special clips which secured the single hot wire running from the light switch to the headlights to the hood lip. Then it was Y'd off with one lead going to the left headlight and the other lead secured around the radiator shroud up over to the right headlight. Dennis Carpenter repops all the lighting parts. You do know the original electrical system was 6-volts/positive ground don't you? One of the advantages was only a single hot wire needed to be run with the ground occurring at the lights themselves. If you have a 12 volt source, we don't know as you don't say, then you will need to run 2 wires to lights. Then it will be making the clips work or come up with another method on your own. Never wire headlights/worklights directly to your ignition switch -trouble. Here's a LINK to DC's web site and the parts you may need:

Tim Daley(MI)
LIGHT CLIPS

Richard from SE AZ · Oct 12, 2017

I have the wires on mine running from the switch to the lights with the clips attached to the under inside edge of the hood.

rwt101 · Oct 12, 2017

Mine is 12 volt. I probably will have to get the clips.

rapidfire · Oct 12, 2017

On 6V is there any harm with running the wire though the spark plug tube then over to the lights?

Wiring for the front lights

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