Thanks for the info Cam. I would rather have slightly confusing instructions than none at all. My 220 was converted long ago and I've hated using that foot switch since I got the sedan, and the conversion is a huge improvement.

I know how it goes with writing. First draft is way too long, second draft can a tad choppy. And you're right of course that catalog tips do not sell parts by themselves.

I did read the whole tip, since the 68 & later model info was incomplete without the early model info. Yeah it could have been better, but I did sort it out eventually and I would not have been able to do so without the tip, so thanks for it. I *never* would have sorted out all that relay terminal IDs by myself. I posted in here for clarifications, but nobody responded before I was able to figure it out by myself.

The grey-wire clarification would have saved me some trouble, but it did not take more than a couple times hearing the relay trigger to try the wires the other way.

About my compromised wiring. It is not all that bad after all. After some extensive probing around, my best guess is that the original owner tried to use the signal stalk switch for something else... The grey from the switch had a modern blue crimp connector on it, and there was some more custom wiring under the dash for a CB Radio. The damage I found was confined to the red high-beam indicator light wire. It looks like it was torched in a major way - burned through all along it's length probably. I burned a radio wire like that once, very messy... That seems to be it for the visible damage.

What I had to work with was two (2) wire bundles wired up in a very odd way. One bundle was the tube containing a GREY, BLACK, and RED wire all three of which were jury-rigged to a dipper switch that had completely different color wires...

The second bundle was the shrunken tube with the YELLOW wire a burned up RED that used to service the indicator light. I restored that bit before the ran came.

Of course I had to lengthen the GREY signal stalk wire.

That's not too bad, really.

My problem was that the instructions tell me to fold up and tuck the red wire, but that's for the pre-67 models and it means the wire that is tucked up by the reverse relay. Not the one from the dipper bundle. Later on it says to hook up the double-red, but since it told me previously to tuck a red, I was a little lost there for a while. The only real problem was for the the black, which was very unclear. It tells me to run a new wire and jumper it, but it also tells me to connect a black to the relay. I figured out that the black was supposed to be a power supply for the relay (duh, right?) and that my dipper black had no power going to it. I ran a new fuse ire to the relay and by process of elimination, the dipper black was he only one without a home. It was tucked back. Maybe it should go somewhere, but neither the relay nor the fusebox is correct.

So my final question is - what to do with that black dipper wire? Leave it tucked or should it be hooked to a ground point or something. Where did it come from in the first place?


Anyway, don't get me wrong about my happiness with the final conversion, it's worthwhile and the instructions were okay. I would have preferred a clearer treatment of the two types of wiring, but I did not mind the color coding, just a little more clarity where there are two wires with the same color but different purposes.

it all worked out and now I know enough to help others who might have the same problem.