Was wondering if anyone has hard-wired their tail assemblies. After fooling around with mine for a for a couple of hours and finding a number of problems with the bulb receptacles seating and making proper contact, as well as the tail light wiring harness plug not contacting well on all circuits, I thought, why not hard wire the whole thing and be done with it!

It wouldn't be difficult to figure out which wire does what, but I figure that some of you may have already gone to the trouble and that I could benefit from your experience! If not, I'll post up the results of my own investigation and solutions to the problem.

Anyone?

 

Good luck!!!

If you can't figure it out try getting a set of salvage yard lights.Then you might just need to get new circuit boards.

 

I agree with buying the salvage lights. You can even buy ones with broken lenses and swap parts.

My '94 wagon had a bad tail-lamp ground on one side (due to accident damage). There is a black wire that goes to the body but there was poor connection...scraping the paint under the mounting screw fixed it. The symptoms were weird and varying because the lamps were seeking ground through the other lamps.