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Victor Spadoni
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64C turn signals

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Hi all,
Had my 64C painted recently, I had taken most of everything off, and now in the process of putting it all back together. I reconnected the headlights wiring, see attached, ( I know, not a pretty sight ), here's the thing, signals work both front and rear when lights are off, but stop working when I turn on the lights on. They worked fine before, and I'm pretty sure I connected everything the same way . Horns also worked and now do not. I cleaned all terminals, and all fuses are good. Ideas ???? I have several electrical diagrams including Joe Leone's books.
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That symptom points to a bad ground for sure. Are the steel ground straps connected to the taillight housings? On end of them is welded to the body.
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#3 Post by Victor Spadoni »

Thanks for responding Martin, does seem to be a bad ground somewhere, but the tail lights work just fine, including brake light and signals, everything I see seems to be connected including the grounding straps.
 

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I will go back and re-clean and re-check ground connections, ...when it gets a bit warmer here on the east Coast, it's 44 degrees now and I can't take the cold anymore. and my back is not getting any better in the near future.
 

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If you check each ground you may find a bad one. Use a test light, ground its wire end, then with the headlights on touch the probe to the various ground parts of the sockets. If the test light illuminates, you have no ground. Then follow any ground wires to the body to see if they also are live battery voltage, or actually grounded.
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#6 Post by John Brooks »

Look behind the drivers side turn signal mount inside the fender well, for a brown wire attached to the mounting hardware. I had a similar problem, that brown ground was corroded at the ring terminal. Brass Wire brush fixed it.
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#7 Post by Victor Spadoni »

Thanks guys I will do as you suggested asap.
 

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