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What wire is this? 12v red, constant 12v

Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 1:24 pm
by gnoplos
Hi everyone,
Been working on sorting out the headlight issue on my 1969 1600 (someone took it upon themselves to cut every wire related to front lights) and I found a red wire that has constant 12v battery voltage that was cut right around where the right front headlight harness pokes through the fender.

I traced it back the the firewall to this plug here under the dash on the driver side. It then goes to the main harness. Any idea what it might be?
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Re: What wire is this? 12v red, constant 12v

Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 1:55 pm
by gnoplos
Sorry for the dumb post, I checked continuity between all the powers in the fuse box and *surprise* it turned out to be the right headlight. And I then found a similar wire near the left headlight with a blown fuse

Also-shoutout to Curtis who separated the circuits in the wiring schematics, it makes it so much easier to deal with!

Re: What wire is this? 12v red, constant 12v

Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2019 6:19 pm
by Curtis
This will tell you what you need to know.

http://www.kendo-usa.org/datsun/datsun_ ... _69_70.pdf