Wiring up aux. driving and offroad lights... which highbeam wire??

Wiring up aux. driving and offroad lights... which highbeam wire??

05-02-2006, 04:03 AM

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Wiring up aux. driving and offroad lights... which highbeam wire??

I have a pair of piaa driving 520's and KC 8 inch rally's that I want to come on with the high beams. Wiring them to the headlamp harness is the obvious choice but I think it would be better to wire them to the wire coming from highbeam switch down the steering column. Anyone know which that is on a 96 like mine?
If I know which wire it is it'll be a breeze but I am doing other work on the truck right now and can't spend the time testing.
It is for use in central america where you need all the light you can get on the roads

but I don't want to blind people either so I want them to switch off easily and quickly. I may put in a master switch aswell to turn them on independent of the high beam.

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