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Originally Posted by custom10nut
Not many of these trucks came with the "door switch" dome light kit. Maybe 71 or 72 (experts chime in)?
With a complete kit.
You need to be careful to drill the holes in the door jamb so that you can thread the switch in and it's snug. The exit under the dash in up in the "corner" of the kick panel vent. Use a piece of stiff flexible wire from under dash to the door jamb. Tape your hot wire to the fish wire and pull it through. Leave enough to hook up the switch. The switch is the ground, so back to the fuse panel there's only one wire. Put a grommet on the wire where it comes through the kick panel, both to protect the wire and give it a clean finish.
I have an under dash courtesy light kit that I've been meaning to put in for a long time, and it's time has come.
It's next on my "to do" list. If I get to it before you do, I'll post some pictures
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By corner of the kick panel, do you mean closer to the door or closer to the firewall? Pretty cramped in there either way but I'll look again.
I got the courtesy light set up too, hope to have both in and working soon. And I need to reconnect the cigarette lighter and light. It all shorted out when a little plastic wire retainer inside the light housing broke allowing the power wire to go to ground. I found a way to fix the retainer. I have some under dash aftermarket gauges which I really should remove. Now that I have a full compliment of factory style gauges they are redundant and only tend to clutter up the wiring under the dash.