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03-02-2022, 08:36 PM | #1 |
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'55 Ford dome light wiring
Does the dome light have a constant hot with the switch on the ground like GM cars, or does the hot wire go through the door jamb switch?
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03-02-2022, 08:53 PM | #2 |
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Re: '55 Ford dome light wiring
My 54 has a constant hot and when the door is opened the butto pops out making a circuit and the lights go on. It's a Victoria with the interior light on the back pillars, don't know if different from a sedan with the light on the roof.
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03-02-2022, 09:10 PM | #3 |
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Re: '55 Ford dome light wiring
I think my '55 (Fairlane Town Sedan 4 door) is likely to be the same, unlikely that Ford would have wired the Victoria differently. Getting ready to put a new wiring harness in mine. Parents bought the car new, dome light probably hasn't worked since the early '60s.
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03-03-2022, 12:28 AM | #4 |
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Re: '55 Ford dome light wiring
On '55 Ford sedans, wagons and hardtops (Fairlane and Customline series) the front doors each have a courtesy light switch at the front of the door-jamb.
The power wire comes from a separate terminal on the headlight switch and lands on the courtesy switch. Another wire comes out of the courtesy switch to the dome light. The courtesy switch contacts are open when the car door is closed and the contacts close (completing the circuit) when the car door is opened. When I rewired my cars, I ran an extra green ground wire and terminated it at one of the mounting screws for the chrome-plated pot metal dome light housing to insure good grounding integrity. P.S., most of the Mainline series cars did not have factory installed courtesy lights or switches. |
03-03-2022, 08:52 AM | #5 |
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Re: '55 Ford dome light wiring
@Daves55Sedan--that's a beautiful '55. I like that two tone. I've seen some with the dark blue on bottom and lighter blue on upper body, don't think I've seen one with the lighter blue on bottom. What's the third character of the serial number indicating the assembly plant? My father worked at the Atlanta plant 1952-82.
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03-03-2022, 01:34 PM | #6 |
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03-03-2022, 01:45 PM | #7 |
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Re: '55 Ford dome light wiring
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I'm not sure it makes a difference as far as the two tone paint scheme. I have long pondered why some body plants painted their car body's using Fomoco's "Styletone" paint scheme and some plants were ordered to go with the "unique two-tone" scheme in 1955. In the midwest, I saw several of both types running around in the '60's & early '70s, but that doesn't mean they didn't come from several distant plants originally. There's probably no one left on earth that could tell you which plants were ordered to use which scheme (or both at different times of the year). BTW, the unique two-tone style didn't necessarily always mean that the light color was on the bottom of the car. Sometimes the dark color was. You'd need to see original '55 Ford sales brochures to see what I mean. Main difference between styletone and unique two tone is that the styletone has the exterior bottom and top of the car as the base color of the car (firewall, undercarriage, inside of doors, trunk, hood). Then the second color woulkd be applied to the middle. The unique two tone cars had the middle of the car as the base color including (firewall, undercarriage, inside of doors, trunk, hood and exterior top), while the bottom and window frames were a different color. Unique two tone paint schemes were only applied to Fairlane models. Last edited by Daves55Sedan; 03-03-2022 at 05:47 PM. |
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03-03-2022, 09:45 PM | #9 |
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Re: '55 Ford dome light wiring
I bought the wiring diagram...it's a head scratcher how the three, dome light two switches are wired...but I'm gonna do it someday. Will take a photo of the diagram soon and submit.
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03-06-2022, 07:54 AM | #10 |
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Re: '55 Ford dome light wiring
The OG ones have one hot wire, the socket body is the ground. The harness I used is a 2-wire design. It took a little while to figure it out. I bought a new 2-wire socket, reused the bracket off the old one, JB welded it to the new socket body.
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