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Thanks for the reply DADS.

I'm not sure if what we did was correct. But now I'm stumped. We're running a 6V system, so I'm assuming we need a 6V source.
We don't have a 6V battery on hand right now, but we have a 6V/12V battery charger.
We hooked the ground cable of the charger to the truck, and the red cable through a test lead to the green wire. Bulb lit VERY brightly. Then we tested the black lead (with red cable hooked to it, black cable to truck ground) and the bulb wouldn't light again.
Needless to say we had the charger on 12V. Our mistake. So we figured we blew a bulb. Got the other 6V bulb in. Flipped the charger to 6V this time, and tried the green wire first, black cable still hooked to truck ground. No light this time. Even on 6V, with a new bulb.

I don't know what caused it to light the first time, every things hooked up the same, just the charger is on 6V now, as it should be.

Needless to say we're getting no more light. I'm not so sure we should have went ahead without asking another question. Please bear with this bonehead move.

We're we supposed to have the black cable grounded to the truck?

I tested continuity of both bulbs, and they both have continuity, so I think they're OK still...

What did we do wrong here? Thanks DADS.

Lonnie -- Thanks for the reply. There are two wires coming out of EACH parking lamp. A black wire, and a green wire. Right now we're dealing with the right side. We're not sure where to connect the two parking lamp wires into the system.

These are double filament bulbs, BTW.

Thanks guys.