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Thanks to We B Old, I now have a passenger(and another one should I have to replace the driver's side) side headlight bucket that I am trying to hook up to get power to it, but the color changes on the wires. The original wires going to the electrical junction block(4 screws on a plastic rectangle mounted on fender) are green and peach colored(concerning lights). The headlight bucket wires are black(which is ground, I at least know that) red and yellow. I have the red wire going to the peach colored wire and the yellow wire going to the green wire. Is that correct? Or would a picture help?

P.S. My diagram says that the peach colored wire is brown.

As long as the low and high beams are coordinated with the indicator light on the dash, wire color shouldn't matter. Turn the HL switch on and push the dimmer switch in the floor until the hi beam indicator on the dash comes on. With your test light or voltmeter, find the wire going toward the headlight assembly with voltage on it. Ground the black wire, and alternately touch the other wires to get high and low beam operation. Connect the hot wire to the one that makes the high beam work, and hook up the other wire to the one that's left. The dimmer switch should select between the two beams, with the indicator light in the dash coming on along with the high beams.
Jerry

Thanks. Before you responded I compared the sockets on the old and new headlight buckets and figured out which went where(. Had to wire-wheel the around where the ground attaches to the inner fender, it was so dim before I did that it was pathetic.