Courtesy Lights

Funny how the everyday convenience that you get accustomed to in your daily driver, other than a cup holder, goes missing when driving an older car. Here is a nice touch of comfort that can be added with very little money and its not really that hard to do. I have less than $10 invested and maybe 15-20 minutes of my time in this upgrade. The mid to late 70's F150 truck donated the Courtesy lights with a section of the wiring with the connector. The reason I choose this particular under dash light, other than it had a Ford part number stamped on it, was because it was easy to remove without crawling under the dash or disassembling other parts to get to it. Only difference between a Maverick Courtesy light and the truck's light is the Maverick light has the mounting tab turned 90º whereas the truck is 180º

To install the lights, I removed the passenger's side kick panel and unplugged the wiring harness going to the door jam light switch. They are two wires in this harness, one Light Green w/Yellow tracer and one Black w/Light Blue tracer. Cut the Black w/Blue tracer wire about 6 or 8 inches from the connector and spliced in a new wire to power the lights. Mounted the light using the same screw that mounts the package tray to it's bracket. This screw is the ground to complete the circuit