Vendor FJ40 Red & Green Dash Light Housings (1 Viewer)

[kevos37]

Vehicle Model

1. 40 Series
2. 45 Series

Location

California United States

$35 red several . $45 green only one. Plus shipping.

Cheers
KevO

 

[kevos37]

 

[Mopdog]

I’ll take the green.

 

[kevos37]

Green sold. Only red left. Time to pimp my ride !

 

[kevos37]

Bump, found another green light. It has the bulb and retainer.

 

[Living in the Past]

The retainer is actually an isolator the lamp holder fits in. Housing is the same as the red lights. The green 4WD light gets power when the key is on. When the transfer case is in 4WD it completes the ground circuit.

Probably done way so it the switch fails and falls apart it a wire makes it to ground the light will come and instead of a direct short.
Switch failure is fairly common on these.

 

[Green Bean]

The retainer is actually an isolator the lamp holder fits in. Housing is the same as the red lights. The green 4WD light gets power when the key is on. When the transfer case is in 4WD it completes the ground circuit.

Probably done way so it the switch fails and falls apart it a wire makes it to ground the light will come and instead of a direct short.
Switch failure is fairly common on these.

Very nice increasingly rare collection. GLWS. The black retainer rings are very nice indeed. As LITP sated they do serve as an isolator for the ground activated circuit, but they also help to secure the fixture to the dash from behind. I found that an O-ring on the front between the chrome bezel and the dash helped keep the socket from grounding to the dash. Adding retainer rings to the turn indicators and parking brake indicator lights secured those quite nicely.

 

[Living in the Past]

On any light sockets with only a single wire the dash is being used as a ground.

 

[Green Bean]

On our 1970, the parking brake and the 4WD are both activated through a switched ground. The back of the light fixtures each have 2 wires (12v and ground). The center wire bullet connects to the harness where it receives an ignition switched constant 12v, but the light will not illuminate because there is no ground. The other wire (soldered to the outside of the fixture) bullet connects to the harness and receives a ground only when the switch is activated.

 

[kevos37]

The soldered wire broke off on this unit.