1950 Coupe headlight wire routing

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jarretts70

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I'm looking for a picture or information on the headlight wire routing on a 1950 coupe. Specifically, where the harness comes through the radiator core support at the front of the car, the type of grommet (if used), where the grounds attach, etc... I've looked at the wiring diagrams at Van Pelt sales - they were very helpful, but don't have this information. I got the car in pieces so I don't know what's correct. Thanks!
 
If possible, go to a local car show and find a stock 1950 Ford.
Most owners will be glad to open their hood for photos.
 
Ford usually routed the heavily insulated head lamp and park lamp harnesses through an opening in the inner fender well to connect into the rear of the headlamp bucket and the through another hole in the front fender for the park lamp housing. They just had rubber grommets appropriate for the hole size and thickness of metal it passes through. They would put a large multi pin terminal block in the location on the fender well close to the core support. There is a cross over harness from the left side to the right side to connect to the blocks on each side. The horn harness may pass through the core support but I'm more used to the Mercury cars in that time frame. They were similar in the way they were wired but the structure is different. Similar structure but just different. I'd say all the Ford cars would be the same in this respect for the different bodies in that model year. The grounds were the attachment of the individual buckets and housings to the car. There wasn't much plastic other than the lenses for the park lamp housings. Every thing was metal to metal attachment for the ground path.

To ADD: I looked at photos of this link for a 1950 model at Volo Museum. I shows the blocks mounted on the front face of the core support with the left side harness coming through the support just in front of the battery. The cross over and the right side block can be seen in the photo. The light harnesses likely go through a hole in the inner fender well very near the terminal block locations if I had to guess.
https://www.volocars.com/vehicles/17160/1950-ford-custom
 
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Hopefully these will help. Taken from my Dads' all original '50 Custom.
I have some NOS wire blocks. If you need one, you can have one, I'd just need a day or so to find them.


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Note: '53 Ford, I got my hi/lo reversed there. and the repro sponge repro parking lense gaskets ASSORB water! Originals were rubber/cork. Newc
 
Newc said:
Note: '53 Ford, I got my hi/lo reversed there. and the repro sponge repro parking lense gaskets ASSORB water! Originals were rubber/cork. Newc
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Exactly why I'll make my own out of sheets of cork/rubber if I cannot find a suitable replacement. The expanded plastic junk is just that....junk.
 
Thanks to all - cjshakers pictures show exactly what I needed to see. Someone made a new inner panel on this car but there were no holes drilled...I already have a new harness & wire blocks but thanks for the offer.
 
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