1963 Volvo P1800 Light Switch Wiring

teacherman99 · Mar 12th, 2020, 19:25

Good afternoon,

I am new to this group. I purchased a '63 1800 back in 2011. I pretty much took the entire car apart. I sat at a paint and body shop for just over 7 years. I got the car back 2 summers ago and started putting it back together. I now just purchased a universal wiring harness from Painless and am planning on installing it next week. I have some questions on the main light switch and the wiper switch. Both are the Lucas original switches. Can someone help me out with where the wires connect to on the switches themselves. The light switch has a total of 5 wires: Red-Green, Red-White, Blue, Red, and Brown.

Is the switch on the left the light switch?
Is the switch on the right the wiper switch?
Or do I have them mixed up?

The wires that go to the wiper switch are: Green, Yellow, Black, LightGreen-Black, and another green I believe.

Does someone have a picture of their switches wired?

Thank you

https://sites.google.com/view/jonathansp1800/home

teacherman99 · Mar 13th, 2020, 15:30

In reading a different post I learned that in order to upload pictures they need to be smaller. I am going to try and upload some.

migrator · Mar 14th, 2020, 09:43

The pictures do show some good work on your P1800.

Sorry I cannot help directly as I have never worked on that series of Volvo.

However there is always this link

http://www.volvoclubthailand.com/cgi...87902009/23#23

which has a number of P1800 service type manuals (Section 23 - a good way down the list).

Good luck and keep up the good work.

c1800 · Mar 20th, 2020, 14:27

I have one of these, extremely easy to follow and very helpful on many occasions. I suppose that if your going to a new harness, then it may not be helpful in the future.

https://colorwiringdiagrams.com/prod...001-thru-07000

There’s also these online.

http://volvo1800pictures.com/documen...olour_V1.0.pdf

teacherman99 · Mar 28th, 2020, 02:08

Thank you for the link Migrator. I will look for them there.

teacherman99 · Mar 28th, 2020, 02:09

Thank you c1800, I actually purchased one of the color coded diagrams, just so I could have it handy while i'm working on it.

Mar 12th, 2020, 19:25	#1
teacherman99 P1800Man Last Online: Mar 28th, 2020 02:11 Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: McAllen/Texas	1963 Volvo P1800 Light Switch Wiring Good afternoon, I am new to this group. I purchased a '63 1800 back in 2011. I pretty much took the entire car apart. I sat at a paint and body shop for just over 7 years. I got the car back 2 summers ago and started putting it back together. I now just purchased a universal wiring harness from Painless and am planning on installing it next week. I have some questions on the main light switch and the wiper switch. Both are the Lucas original switches. Can someone help me out with where the wires connect to on the switches themselves. The light switch has a total of 5 wires: Red-Green, Red-White, Blue, Red, and Brown. Is the switch on the left the light switch? Is the switch on the right the wiper switch? Or do I have them mixed up? The wires that go to the wiper switch are: Green, Yellow, Black, LightGreen-Black, and another green I believe. Does someone have a picture of their switches wired? Thank you https://sites.google.com/view/jonathansp1800/home Last edited by teacherman99; Mar 12th, 2020 at 19:27. Reason: to add url of pictures

Mar 14th, 2020, 09:43	#3
migrator Aye - him again Last Online: Today 08:40 Join Date: May 2001 Location: HAWICK	The pictures do show some good work on your P1800. Sorry I cannot help directly as I have never worked on that series of Volvo. However there is always this link http://www.volvoclubthailand.com/cgi...87902009/23#23 which has a number of P1800 service type manuals (Section 23 - a good way down the list). Good luck and keep up the good work. __________________ (Ouch - that's another knuckle ...) VOC 11817

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Mar 20th, 2020, 14:27	#4
c1800 Master Member Last Online: Apr 14th, 2024 16:22 Join Date: Oct 2013 Location: Alberta	I have one of these, extremely easy to follow and very helpful on many occasions. I suppose that if your going to a new harness, then it may not be helpful in the future. https://colorwiringdiagrams.com/prod...001-thru-07000 There’s also these online. http://volvo1800pictures.com/documen...olour_V1.0.pdf

Mar 28th, 2020, 02:08	#5
teacherman99 P1800Man Last Online: Mar 28th, 2020 02:11 Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: McAllen/Texas	Thank you for the link Migrator. I will look for them there.

Mar 28th, 2020, 02:09	#6
teacherman99 P1800Man Last Online: Mar 28th, 2020 02:11 Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: McAllen/Texas	Thank you c1800, I actually purchased one of the color coded diagrams, just so I could have it handy while i'm working on it.

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