85 K10 with stacked headlights - are these connectors correct?

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Hello everyone - I am installing the LMC LED headlights and need to ensure these connectos are corrrect. According to AI the low beans are on top and high on the bttom. If this is true mine appear to be backwards? Assuming the low beams have the two wire Black and Green.

On the connector with two black wires, one of them is a ground to the frame and will not let me drop it down to the bottom light. This could be from the previous owner and just needs to be lenghted? This is on the passaneger side.

On the drivers side there are two of the Tan, is this standard?

Last question - can I pick up new connectors at O'Reilly? would like to clean these uup and make sure they are seating correctly.

I have the heavy duty wire harness on order from LMC that allows you to power the lights direct from battery instead os the switch. Maybe should just wire to that direct instead of plugging into trucks light plugs, once I have the color for each figured out. Appreciate any help.

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Two more pictures - keeps saying it ran into a technical error.
 

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Low beams on top, they have the 3 wire plug, and high beams on bottom with the 2 wire plug.
You can clean up the contacts inside the plugs and they will work just fine. My 83 has the original plugs and they work like a charm. I cleaned them up a bit to make sure they were getting good contact and hit them with some dielectric grease afterwards to keep them clean.
 

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@83Stepper - thank you for the help. Ended up replacing the headlight switch in the cab and was getting 12V at all connectors. Figured out that the LED set from LMC requires that you plug the high beams in with the Green and Black wire on their specific prongs on the lens; after we did this everything works perfectly.

I know the LMC kit is costly, but man are they a solid built unit, very robust and wicked bright. I will try and get some pictures of them on here soon, installing the kit they have that allows you to power the lights directly from the battery power source instead of back through the switch. We also did the tail lights which are very bright as well and allow you to pick sequential blinking mode on them which is pretty cool.
 

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I on purpose moved my low beams to the bottom due to getting caught is snow storms returning from snowmobile races. It helped tremendously to cut down the flair up and makes it easier on the eyes and brain. Southern guy probably won’t know what I’m talking about. Side effect it makes it look even lower at night.
 

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