1953 ish wiring diagram for Customline or Meteor

The wiring on these is simple enough - you might be able to get away with just a color code chart. (Don't have one of those either.)

But the entire system is drop-dead simple, here's a few clues to work with:

You start with the +12V power in from the fuse box, goes through the turn signal flasher, then to the column turn signal switch. Brake light power feed goes from the fuse panel to the brake light switch, then to the turn signal switch, passes through to both the rear stop/turn lamps if the turn signal switch is in the neutral position.

Separate turn signal lamp output leads from the turn signal switch to the front lamps - no brake input, but they might connect to the Parking Lights circuit in the headlight switch (first notch pull) with the turn signal switch in the neutral position. Same theory as the brake lights, when you go to signal a turn the Parking Lights power is switched off on that side and they feed it from the Flasher power.

If it does weird things you can isolate it down to a bad power source, bad switch, or lamp problems - if the lamp grounds go bad, odd stuff happens that has nothing to do with the switches.

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Thanks SO much for the reply Bruce, VERY helpful to get me going!!!