I am trying to wire a 95 headlight switch into a 69 Firebird, so I need to identify what the wires on the 95 switch are for.

I tried testing the switch last night with a battery and a test light.

I assume the 10-12 gauge red wire is the main power wire, but it could be the same gauge white wire. With either the red or the white wire connected to the positive battery terminal and the test light connected to negative, none of the other wires were hot when the switch was in the park lamp on setting or the headlamp setting. Is this a bad switch?

What are the small blakc, orange, tan, and brown wires for? When the switch was turned to the headlamp on if the red wire was connected to positive the white wire was hot, but none of the other wires had power....

HELP! I'm trying to wrap up this dash swap!

Drew

 

All I have in front of me is a schematic for a camaro headlight switch but it looks like it is fairly similar to the switch you have. It looks like red is input from the battery and white is output to the headlights. For parking lights it looks like it gets 12 volts from the orange wire and then the brown wire runs to the parking light relay to turn them on. On the camaro black is the ground for the headlight switch illumination, so try grounding the black wire and hooking the tan wire to 12 volts and see if the switch lights up. Hope this helps.