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Offline BadJoey

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Lights ?
« on: September 23, 2016 - 08:40:33 PM »
Haven't looked yet just got home . The only lights I have are head lights and brake lights .

Lights not working are signal lights front and back dash indicators flash, front and rear parking lights , dash lights , side marker lights .

The only thing jumping at me is some kind of switch in the steering column .But I,m not sure that switch would have anything to do with dash , or other lights except turn and brake .

I thought maybe the head light switch but that shouldn't bother the signal lights ? .

That makes me think a ground problem however I dot not think they share a ground . Any guesses please and thank you .




Offline lulurocks

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Re: Lights ?
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2016 - 09:44:35 PM »
I would check the harness connectors at bottom of colum near brake pedal .  One is ign sw one turn sig sw connection.....The dash indicators and turn sigs come out of there as you already stated.

Have you seen what fuses are blown ?

Maybe the turn sig switch  or sig switch harness went bad  and took out some fuses .

That's where I would look :2cents: :2cents:

Open the connectors up and clean them  , or look for burn marks.


Offline BadJoey

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Re: Lights ?
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2016 - 10:53:37 AM »
Going in the garage now to check things out .The mix of things not working is not connected in any other way except the ground . When I was restoring the car many years ago the only ground wire coming off the battery went to the motor . That's my only ground source . With all the rubber in the mounts I'm lucky it worked this long . My ground cable has a pig tail on it . I'm going to hook that to the body and see what happens .

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Re: Lights ?
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2016 - 01:57:44 PM »
All fixed kind of . No idea why the signal lights weren't working . Proded one socket with a test light and all 4 signals started working . No idea what that was all about but I'm sure it will be back . Next dash , marker and tail lights were out . Checked fuses and sure enough all fixed . I made the mistake of thinking both problems were connected . 2 problems I just found them at the same time .

Offline lulurocks

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Re: Lights ?
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2016 - 04:18:05 PM »
Sweet