ditch lights switch wiring help

[evan1242]

Basically on your new switch the red wire is just for the little light in the inside of it.

 

[Jayson44]

You could try. But it will probably keep the light on your switch on all the time. If it keeps it on you will have to run the red wire from the old switch to the yellow wire of the new switch. And the from the new switch the red wire would need to go to switched ignition power to turn the light inside the switch on and off.

Blue from the switch would go to white in the harness.
And ground to ground of course.

cool. thanks. can I wire the black on the switch to the black on the harness? or should I ground it on it's own?

basically, can I use the harness for red -> yellow, black -> black, white -> blue and send the red wire from the new switch to ignition?

J.

 

[evan1242]

cool. thanks. can I wire the black on the switch to the black on the harness? or should I ground it on it's own?

basically, can I use the harness for red -> yellow, black -> black, white -> blue and send the red wire from the new switch to ignition?

J.

You got it man! That should do the trick

 

[Jayson44]

You got it man! That should do the trick

thanks!

J.

 

[Jayson44]

thanks for everyone's help on this. got it all wired up last night. the only thing is that the back light stays on all the time and doesn't turn on and off with the headlights. if I wanted to be super picky (not sure I care that much yet) and wanted to figure that out, how would I go about it? everything else works great and it looks pretty much factory which is what I was going for.

J.