Wiring Headlights direct to Battery

[foggy_notion]

1985 dodge Ram Pick Up

I have a short somewhere and it fried the head lights,
also fries the battery if I leave it connected all night.
Will fix right when I finish school in a few weeks, but
for now is there a temp fix where I can just wired the
head lights directly to the battery, and disconnect it
when I don't need it?

If so what is the best way to do this? using a fuse?
and which of the many wires coming out of the light
are the one I should splice into? (They're all same color)

[Moparfreak1980]

If you are going to do this disconnect your lights and run two wires directly to your lights one for the ground the other for power

[83dodgeswb4x4]

As you look at the back of the head light, you should have two verticle blades, and one horizontal one, this horizontal blade is your low beam wire, from there is is simply a matter of having a wire with two aligator clips to test to see which is the ground. Attach one end to a good ground and the other to one of the blades on the headlight, if it lights up you now know the location of each wire. Now, one of the problems with these piticular trucks is the head light wiring. What I did on mine was go down to the parts house and get a couple of 15 amp relays, a 20 fuse with harness and some 10 gauge wire. Mount the relays on the fender well, and wire a hot lead from the battery through the fuse to each, now wire these to the head lights respectively. Now all you need to do is decide how you wish to control these. I personly was able to use existing wiring and wired each relay to the respective circuit for the lights, for a quick fix, and if you don't need highbeams a lot just run a wire out from inside to trigger the relay, you could probably tap the fuse box for that with out further degrading your problem. later on after your repair the system, you could wire the two relays through the foot dimmer switch.

[sgillett]

My $.02,
I would use a circuit breaker instead of a fuse.