Instrument panel lights

[Caseyrhe 650]

Got all the ext lights, turn signals and brake lights working. Courtesy lights at kick panels and in sail panels working, but lights in deluxe door panels are not. Instrument panel lights, clock light, and console ash tray light do not work. Any advice on where to start looking?

[Midlife 814]

Door panel lights are on the same circuit as sail panel lights; they need a ground via a ring connector at kick panel area.

Your other lights are all dash lamp circuit lights, so a bad fuse, bad headlight switch, or headlight rheostat might be the issue there.

[Mach1 Driver 560]

this schematic may help:

[Caseyrhe 650]

9 hours ago, Midlife said:

Door panel lights are on the same circuit as sail panel lights; they need a ground via a ring connector at kick panel area.

Your other lights are all dash lamp circuit lights, so a bad fuse, bad headlight switch, or headlight rheostat might be the issue there.

That’s what I can’t understand, ground wire is attached under kick panel, so maybe the bulbs in doors. New headlight switch. number 3 fuse has no power with test light on either side, even with key on or headlight switch on. 

[Midlife 814]

Sounds like a broken wire from headlight switch to fuse box (check back side of fuse clip, as that's where many wires break), or a faulty headlight switch. 

[Mach1 Driver 560]

the dash light problem is somewhere to the left of the 4A fuse #5 in the schematic. Connect your test light to I on the light switch. The wire is blue with red stripe. Turn the light switch on and adjust the knob to the right (CW). The test light should come on. If it does then Midlife is probably correct and the wire/terminal has broken at the fuse.

For the door light, check at the bulb for power with your test light. The wires from the A pillar to the door have to flex and after 50 years may be broken.

[Caseyrhe 650]

2 bulbs fixed the door lights and a cut wire. 

All is good, thanks guys