I have a 2009 ram 1500 slt with the dual bulb headlights. I accidentally broke the piece that locks the headlight connector to the bulb so my headlight kept turning off and on when I hit bumps going down the road. Was wondering if there was a wiring diagram to help me wire this correctly? I stopped at oreillys for a new connector but it looks slightly different and the wire colors are different was wondering if it would still work. Here’s a few pictures of the connector and wires on my truck and the new one I got. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Does the new connector plug on to the headlight assembly fine? If so, it should work fine. As for the wire colors, the filaments are going to be in the same arrangement and it's only three wires. No wiring diagram should be needed. Holding the old and new connectors in the same orientation, the left-most wire of the new connector will connect to the left-most wire of the old connector. The middle wires of the new connector will connect to the middle wire of the old connector, and you guessed it, the right-most wire of the new connector will connect to the right-most wire of the original connector.

If the new connector will not mate with the headlight assembly, then if you're able to align the green tab of the old connector correctly, then seat the red locking tab, it may stay firmly connected long enough to find the correct replacement connector. That will depend on where the green tab broke (if it broke above or below the locking wedge).

I should also add that when splicing in the new connector you should stagger your splices, solder the connections, and use adhesive-lined shrink sleeving over each of the splices. You should NOT use those easy wire splice connectors or crimp connectors that do not have an environmental seal on them in an exterior application. Those do not protect the new connections from the elements and will allow the copper to corrode. Copper corrodes quite quickly and usually travels up the copper under the insulation. In a matter of months your headlights would stop working again but next time you'd find yourself needing to cut back several inches of wire to get to clean enough copper to splice to. I've had to re-wire way too many taillight systems due to poorly installed trailer wiring adapters to not mention this for a headlight circuit repair!

-Rod

 

Ok I thought that was the case of just matching the wires up together. Also ran out of daylight to see if the new connector would fit on the bulb and it’s supposed to rain the next two days so it’ll have to wait u unfortunately because I don’t have a garage. And thank you very much about not using the crimp connectors because that’s why I was going to use. I did not know about how easily copper wire corroded. I got the harness to plug into the bulb and it stayed on during my drive to work this morning so hopefully it holds out until I can get to work on it.