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does the parking lights go off after you turn on the headlights if so is there a way to get around this ?

If the parking lights burn when the headlights are on, then they wouldn't be parking lights, would they?

Yes you could make then be on anytime the headlights are on, but why?

well it looks better at night with the tailend all dark ,,,

here is what i have ,,, outside of the 2 lamps is bright,, and inside is dimmer and also the break light it gets the same as the outside when the break is on and inside is also the turn ,,, is that right ?????
still thinking about doing the jumper wire

thanks

Huh?? When the headlights are on the tail lights are on.....so how can the tail end be all dark??

i meant to say it looks better with them on at night ,, rather than being all dark ,, i'll have to some testing

thanks

Sounds like someone installed the pigtails with the housing upside down or it had the wrong bulbs.

Yeah somthing is different, right now my tail lights stay on even when the headlights are on , now the front parking lights go off, thats what going there,,,i ned to work on that next

Thanks

The tail lights should be on with either the parking lights or headlights. The three positions on the light switch are off, parking/tail, headlight/tail.

They are supposed to.

Years ago we owned a 58 Delray and the stock parking lights up front went off when the headlights came on.

According the 58 wiring diagram:
The four rear tail lights are supposed to be on with the headlights but all the same candle power.
The outers are stop/turn/tail. #1034 4/32 cp
The inners are one filament tail lights #67 4 cp unless you had the optional reverse lights (#1073)
Only the Impala had three tail lights on each side (optional reverse center lights).

I not messing with the rear i will redo the front ,

Thanks guys

The park lamps are designed to go off when the light switch plunger is in the headlamp position. This was changed in the later years. If you want the park lamps to stay on in the headlamp position you can put a jumper wire from the headlamp terminal on the light switch to the park lamp terminal. After market harnesses like Painless are designed to work either way. The Painless instructions explains how the light switch should be wired.

nice thanks

i will look that up

here is some pics, i am doing the dummy lights in front all i need is a amber bulb