1936 Buick

[Guest nagene]

I have a 1936 buick 90L. I want to put Tripp lights on it . Questiion is do they turn on with the headlight switch or are they on a seperate switch.',

[Pete Phillips]

They should be on a separate switch.

[1939_Buick]

They should be on a separate switch and separate wiring from the electrical power source. And a relay is better than putting all the power through a switch

[BuickBob49]

The Trippe lights on my 39 Roadmaster are activated when you pull the headlight switch all the way out (the 3rd position.  

[BuickBob49]

I should have said that the first position is parking; the second position is city; the third position is country.

[Paul White]

I have a question that may relate to this topic. The under dash switch for the map light in my '36 Special has three positions, on, off and one of which doesn't seem to do anything?  

[MCHinson]

One position illuminates the map light and the other one should illuminate the dash lights.

[Marty Roth]

18 hours ago, MCHinson said:

One position illuminates the map light and the other one should illuminate the dash lights.

 

My (former) 1934 Model 57 worked the same way.

 

There was a separate switch for the GUIDE driving lights under the dash, next to the 3-way switch for the Map Light and Dash Lights

 

The headlight switch was a 4-position, with a "Passing Beam". Rotating counter-clockwise was for Parking Lights, Center was "Off", Clockwise was (Center was "Off"), Counter-clockwise was Low and then High-Beam (Passing)

[Guest nagene]

thanks for all the input. my computer has not been working very good lately