Redoing wiring on 71 cutlass. Rear tail lamp sockets all rotted. Looking for rear lighting harness or bulb sockets. Suggestions?

 

New repro rear harness not too expensive but does require dropping gas tank for sender connection - still preferable in my opinion to cutting and pasting new sockets together

 

The sender wire to the tank has a connector at the pass-through near the trunk latch. Can’t the new harness just be plugged into the existing sender wire at that location?

 

Looked at opgi and other sights and cant find harness for rear lighting with sockets. Just the jumper harness that is in trunk that connects to socket harness which I replaced allready.

 

Check out my build thread to see how I used replacement sockets to rebuild the tail lights for my '72 442 convertible. The tail light work starts at post #346.
Rodney

https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...e-57404/page9/

 

I'll check my records - I know I replaced mine but I guess I recall after all now I had to retain the sockets in the housings on my '72 since they were essentially built into the housings - mine all work well so no replacements were needed.

But here's an Autozone listing for some that may work

https://www.autozone.com/p/dorman-in...t-85803/600544

 

lamp sockets are not part of the tail lamp wire harness...they are part of the lamp housings....so no, the don't come w/the new harnesses.

Look at cdrod's thread or get better housings w/good sockets. I probably have a pair of housings here that are somewhat "refinished".

 

Thanks for all the help and info. Installed new sockets and everything works great. Finally have all exterior lighting working. Now to get this thing to run right....

 

Thanks for all the help and info. Installed new sockets and everything works great. Finally have all exterior lighting working. Now to get this thing to run right....