Daniel,
There are a number of things to cause this problem.
Check to see if the tail light glows brighter on that side than the other
one. If it does, you have a cross between the two hot leads on the light.
If not, you probably have an open ground connection on that light. If the
ground is via the mounting bolts. as it is on the earlier cars, clean to
bare metal where the nuts and lock washers mount the light housing to the
body. Also, check the connection between the light socket and the light
housing, that connection may be bad.
An easy way to find out where the ground is open is to connect a wire to
ground and touch it to the different pieces, seeing where the extra ground
helps and where it doesn't. If touching the light socket helps, but
touching the light mount doesn't, the bad connection is between the light
socket and the housing. If grounding the light mount causes it to work
correctly, the problem is the grounding of the housing.
Good luck!
Peace,
Pat
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University of Texas, 1 University Station C0500,Austin, Tx. 78712-1188 USA
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On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Daniel Neuman wrote:
> Hello All,
> Well well well, I figured out why the brake lights were not working
> and its classic Daniel.....
> I'm not the sharpest tack in the bunch, not the brightest bulb on the tree,
> not the....?
> Here's why it didn't work... My fuse panel was on upside down... I had
> removed the 20 amp 'horn' fuse oh about 2 yrs ago when I put removed the
> horns to put the custom grill in. I just must of never noticed the brake
> lights not working.
> So fuse goes in and the BRAKE LIGHTS WORK!!!!
> Now the turn signals also work fine except the left rears don't work when
> the running lights are on? Well they sorta work I can see the filament in
> the bulb blinking but it dim? Any ideas??
> Damn, some days I could just kick myself. Shoulda known it was
> going to be a rough weekend when on the 3rd (my b-day thank-you-very-much) I
> got a horrible case of food poisoning and was laid up for a couple of days..
> All I need now is some helpful elves to come in and install my fancy gear
> reduction starter and new flex exhaust line.
> Daniel Neuman
> 69 2000
> Oakland CA
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