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the pink wire is the hot wire

the white wire should be the headlamp wire

that leaves the orange wire (possibly red?) to operate the headlamp door motor.

the headlamp door motor is a bi-directioal motor, like the electric window motor, reversing the positive and ground connections drives the motor one way or the other to raise or lower the headlamp doors. This is accomplished with a relay located in the relay compartment.

To operate the headlamp doors, the ignition switch must be in either the accesory or run positions. You can then carefully short the pink wire to the orange wire and observe what happens.

The orange wire energizes the headlamp door relay, the relay pulls in (you should here it click), the electric current to the headlamp door motor passes through the ignition switch, through fuse 10 of the fuse panel, passes through a set of contacts in the headlamp door relay and energizes the motor. The motor's ground passes through one of the two headlamp door limit switches. When the headlamp door is fully raised the limit switch opens the motors ground wire and the motor stops turning. The circuits for the limit switches also pass through contacts in the headlamp door relay on their way to ground.

Do you have a volt meter or an electrical test light?

If shorting the pink wire to the orange wire doesn't raise the headlights, check to see if fuse 10 is energized when the ignition switch is in the accessory or run positions.

Quite often with the Pantera, if something was working and stops working, its either a switch that has failed or a faulty fuse connection. You could give fuse 10 a wiggle & see if that helps.

Mike Dailey's web site, http://www.panteraplace.com/ has a technical section where you shall find a complete set of electrical drawing by Bill Taylor. Mr. Taylor is recognized as our hobby's expert on Pantera wiring. This shall be a good resource for you when troubleshooting electrical gremlins.

George