I want to do away with all of the stock Maverick switches on the left side of my dash board and want to install different headlight and wiper switches in a Taurus console that I bought. I have found a more modern type of headlight/dimmer switch but no matching wiper switch will be found bacause the vehicle that this headlight switch came from, the wiper switch will be a wand type on the column. Does anyone know of a source for a headlight switch of the type pictured that might have a somewhat matching wiper switch too?
I think to find a match your best chance is to find a car in the salvage yard that has the dash style light and wiper controls. I've never seen anything but "OEM" stuff with the modern style. Now, I'm not an electrician but my limited knowledge lets me think you could adapt the same light switch to operate your wipers?? If so, bingo--matching switches!! You'd just need to come up with a clever way of labeling.
That idea sounds like it might work great I'm wondering if the headlight switch pictured having off-park lights-headlights would have the same contol over the wipers such as off-low-high?
the head light switch wont work for wipers with out using a relay to switch the running light circut off when you turn on the head light circut. nomaly the running light circut will stay energized when you turn to the head light postion.
Can anyone out there sketch up a wiring diagram for something like a two position headlight switch like MAV1970 had pictured to adapt it to run wipers--or are the variables too unknown?
I think you are going to find that the wipers will be impossible to adapt to another switch. They are wired to different windings for the speed control and to internal switches for the park control. You might be better off to just relocate the existing wiper switch and replace the knob to fit your application.
There are 7 wires to the wiper switch and four wires to the wiper motor. Here is a pic of the harness section that covers it:
Once I looked at the picture correctly and I see now that when you turn the switch to low (park), the power goes to relay post 30 and just sends it straight through the normally closed 87A to the low speed side of the wiper motor - now put the switch to high (head) and the power goes to 85 triggering the relay to send the power through 87 to the high speed side of the wiper motor. As far as the stock 7 wires go, I'm building a completely new harness and intend to make it as simple as possible so I can see the possibility of loosing some of those 7 wires.
some of the 7 wires are to make the turn signal work seperat from the dash lights and things like that. its the wires to the wiper motor that need to be sorted out.
it could but you would have to eliminate one of the speeds. the blower motor has 3 speeds and that switch only gives you two speeds to select from.
The wipers also have a "park" setting when you turn them off, that make the blades return to the bottom of the windsheild. You will need a switch that has that in it, or your wipers will stop wherever they are at on the windsheild. I'm not sure how it is wired, but I replaced a wiper switch in an old junker pickup one time with a toggle switch. I used a on-off-on style switch, it worked fine for the two speeds, but the wipers wouldn't return to the windsheild base. Off stopped them wherever they were!
I'm fairly certain the park circuit is in the wiper motor. The motor has one wire that is powered all the time(key on) for that circuit. The switch overrides the park circuit to make the motor run continuously. I have installed a setup from a 91 F150 that has the intermittant function but the knob is OEM Maverick so you can't tell. I think rthomas771 also has this setup in his. newer Fords (mustangs, f-series, and several others) have rotary blower switches, but they have 4 speeds. If you get the switch, also get the resistor and you'll also have 4 speeds.
