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So, my right front blinker on ‘67 SV was the only exterior light not working properly, not working at all actually. Assumed it was a grounding issue, and that the mounting screws for the turn signal/ running lamp housing were not making good contact through the spring clips. So I ran a dedicated ground wire from one of the mounting screws to a good solid bolt that coincidentally was also being used to ground a PO’s new running light on the same side. The running lamp worked fine before and still works fine now.
I thought for about 6 hrs that this fixed my blinker problem, but no. I swear it worked during a brief test, but it’s not working now. I’ve checked the connections & they’re tight. The new strange thing is that now not only does the right front blinker not work, but the tach needle jumps when I toggle the blinker arm on the steering the column to engage the right blinker. I did nothing at all on the column or under the dash.
So I guess my question might be: Can you have too many grounds, and can they somehow feedback on one another to cause weird new problems that didn’t exist before?
The other thing I should mention is that I have no panel/instrument lights. This was the case before I grounded the right front blinker & it remains the case now. Thought I would fix one and then the other, but...
I thought for about 6 hrs that this fixed my blinker problem, but no. I swear it worked during a brief test, but it’s not working now. I’ve checked the connections & they’re tight. The new strange thing is that now not only does the right front blinker not work, but the tach needle jumps when I toggle the blinker arm on the steering the column to engage the right blinker. I did nothing at all on the column or under the dash.
So I guess my question might be: Can you have too many grounds, and can they somehow feedback on one another to cause weird new problems that didn’t exist before?
The other thing I should mention is that I have no panel/instrument lights. This was the case before I grounded the right front blinker & it remains the case now. Thought I would fix one and then the other, but...