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Old 12-31-2004, 05:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
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HOW TO: Tsuru Installion:Wire colors

This is for all those who have had problems with wiring these headlights into 91-92 bodies. I had wired them wrong and finally fixed them this weekend. This should save some of you some headache:

Driver's Side:
Tsuru harness-----------------Car's harness
green w/orange stirpe----------blk w/silver dots
orange w/black stripe-----------red w/black stripe(high beam wire)
black w/pink stripe--------------red w/yellow stripe(low beam wire)

Passenger Side:
green w/orange stripe-----------black w/silver dots
orange w/black stripe-----------red w/green stripe(high beam wire)
black w/pink stripe--------------red w/blue stripe(low beam wire)

I don't think i made any mistakes, but if so feel free to correct.
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Old 09-29-2005, 01:37 PM   #2 (permalink)
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what about the corner lights and the lights on the inside of the headlights???
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Old 09-29-2005, 03:05 PM   #3 (permalink)
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what about the corner lights and the lights on the inside of the headlights???
The inner and outer lights you have two choices. You can wire the inner lights to come on with the park lights or use them as turn signals. The choice is yours. If you want your Tsuru corner lights to use the double filament bulb from your OEM corner lights then there is a small mod to me made on your stock corner light socket. I'll try and find the link on NPM and post it here.
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Old 09-29-2005, 03:18 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Here's on link that may helpInstallation procedure

I couldn't find the website link for this, but I had it saved on my computer. Ignore the wiring colors for the headlights as they aren't right if you have a 91-92. I hope this helps. Any questions feel free to PM me.

The Corner Lights

Those of us who have a 93-94 model year Sentra got lucky on the headlights. Our headlight wiring plugs directly into the new bulbs with no need to swap plugs the way you must on 91-92 cars. So, no problem there.

The corner lights on US cars function as both turn signals and running lights. As such the bulb has two filaments, and the plug has three wires - ground, running, and turn signal. Click the thumb to the right to see a picture of what I'm talking about.

The problem, at least for me, is that the Mexican corners are set up to function ONLY as turn signals. The bulb has only one filament and two wires - ground and power. The running light duties are covered by the small round lamps inset into the headlight assembly (we'll get to those later).

Probably the easiest way to overcome this problem is to use the new headlights and grille with the stock US corner lamps. No fuss, no muss. However, the Tsuru corners have a slightly different look, they're newer and therefore not scratched, and since you have to take the corners off to get the headlights off anyway, I took a different approach. It's surprisingly simple, and completely does away with any of the extra wiring or relays I thought would be necessary.

The key is that the corner bulb holders for the Mexican and US cars are the same size. Click the pic to the right. Mexican holder on the left (black) and US on the right (gray).

Those among you who are very observant will have noticed that the Mexican holder has three lock tabs, while the US holder has four. This means that you can't just plug the US holder into the Mexican housing. The wiring harnesses aren't interchangeable either, so you can't plug the US harness into the Mexican bulb holder..

So, what to do? It's surprisingly simple. Take a close look at the tabs; you'll note that the largest tab on each (lined up at 12 o'clock on each) holder is the same size. What I did was to cut the other three tabs off and voila, the US bulb holder will lock into the Mexican housing easy as you please. The pic on the right here shows one holder unchanged, and one with three tabs removed. I used a wirecutter, but I imagine that a dremel tool or even a file would work equally well; I was afraid that the plastic would be brittle and crack but there was no trouble.

The real plus is that this reduces the wiring you have to do as well. Let's move on to that, shall we?






The Wiring

You'll notice in the first picture above that the US corner lights have three wires. The base colors are black (ground), red (parking) and green (turn signal). This is where the wiring for the round inset lamp must be spliced in. The connectors for these lamps have two wires each, one white and one green. The green is power and white is ground. You will need to extend these wires about 8 inches; I made them too long but that won't hurt anything either. I used green for green and black for white, as you can see in the pics. Basically you must splice the green wire on the connector to the red wire on the corner wiring harness, and the white wire on the connector to the black wire on the corner harness. You can use whatever kind of splices you like; SOLM recommends soldering the connections but I used crimp connectors with no problems. I imagine that spade connectors would work well for ease of removal. I would stay away from the Scotchlok style connectors though as I doubt the wire loom would fit over them.

After this wiring is complete, the small round lamps will come on as part of the parking light system, i.e. the first click on the light switch on the stalk. I've included a couple pictures to the right of the wiring, and then one of the finished wiring covered in wire loom.

Note - you could wire these small lights as turn signals rather than parking lights, you would just need to splice the power (green) into the green wire on the corner harness rather than red.
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definitely bookmarked this for when my car gets painted and ready to roll.
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Just found this...

Post number 4 is actually my writeup and picture. I actually approached sr20boston about having it added to the Tech library a long time ago. Follow link in sig for the complete how-to, with more pictures.

Edit: actually, just go here: http://www.geocities.com/kwstine1/Tsuru.html
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Old 10-16-2006, 05:01 PM   #7 (permalink)
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what if i have a nx2000 wiring harness could i just use the inner lights of the headheadlight to hook up to the mexi ones? will the front turn signals from the nx work on the corners of the mexi ones?TIA
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what if you have a 93-94 car. is it just plug and play
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MY WRITEUP IS ON A 93!!! Did you read it?!?!?
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Old 01-12-2007, 04:03 PM   #10 (permalink)
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hmm mine didnt come with no harness or what not just the front lights and corner lights and the grill. i was told you only needed that stuff if you had a 91 92 car... and 93 and 94 you wouldent need any of that stuff...
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bump for a answer ^^^^
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Old 01-14-2007, 12:45 AM   #12 (permalink)
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bump for a answer ^^^^
search son...

i got my lights a couple of days ago and they look awesome!!! the wiring wasnt hard at all. all you gotta know is this...


and this if you have a 91-92 SE-R like i do...
Tsuru harness-----------------Car's harness
green w/orange stirpe----------blk w/silver dots
orange w/black stripe-----------red w/black stripe(high beam wire)
black w/pink stripe--------------red w/yellow stripe(low beam wire)

Passenger Side:
green w/orange stripe-----------black w/silver dots
orange w/black stripe-----------red w/green stripe(high beam wire)
black w/pink stripe--------------red w/blue stripe(low beam wire)

in the end you get this...

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Old 01-14-2007, 10:50 AM   #14 (permalink)
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well mine isint a 91 or 92 ! its a 94 and mine didnt come with a harness. and i already searched son, all the write ups are for 91 92 and the only one that would help me is the write up from Rittmeister but he had the harness to go with it
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