zander

Hi Folks, I have a 93 Wrangler YJ and am having a weird signal light
problem. If you signal right everything works normally, but if you
signal left the left lights come on as well as the right signals dimly.
I have switched the front right socket as it looked a bit nasty as
well as the turn signal switch but haven't had any luck yet. Any ideas
??

Mike Romain

That is the symptom of a bad ground in the taillight fixture or a broken
bulb.

The taillight fixtures ground via the bolts that hold them onto the body
and when that ground goes bad, the brake and signal bulb steals a ground
through the running lights. It is the running or parking lights you are
seeing flash on the other side.

Sometimes the glass can fall out of the brass base on the bulb itself
which can cause it too.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
Aug./05 http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2120343242
(More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)

zander wrote:
>
> Hi Folks, I have a 93 Wrangler YJ and am having a weird signal light
> problem. If you signal right everything works normally, but if you
> signal left the left lights come on as well as the right signals dimly.
> I have switched the front right socket as it looked a bit nasty as
> well as the turn signal switch but haven't had any luck yet. Any ideas
> ??

Mike Romain

That is the symptom of a bad ground in the taillight fixture or a broken
bulb.

The taillight fixtures ground via the bolts that hold them onto the body
and when that ground goes bad, the brake and signal bulb steals a ground
through the running lights. It is the running or parking lights you are
seeing flash on the other side.

Sometimes the glass can fall out of the brass base on the bulb itself
which can cause it too.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
Aug./05 http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2120343242
(More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)

zander wrote:
>
> Hi Folks, I have a 93 Wrangler YJ and am having a weird signal light
> problem. If you signal right everything works normally, but if you
> signal left the left lights come on as well as the right signals dimly.
> I have switched the front right socket as it looked a bit nasty as
> well as the turn signal switch but haven't had any luck yet. Any ideas
> ??

Mike Romain

That is the symptom of a bad ground in the taillight fixture or a broken
bulb.

The taillight fixtures ground via the bolts that hold them onto the body
and when that ground goes bad, the brake and signal bulb steals a ground
through the running lights. It is the running or parking lights you are
seeing flash on the other side.

Sometimes the glass can fall out of the brass base on the bulb itself
which can cause it too.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
Aug./05 http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2120343242
(More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)

zander wrote:
>
> Hi Folks, I have a 93 Wrangler YJ and am having a weird signal light
> problem. If you signal right everything works normally, but if you
> signal left the left lights come on as well as the right signals dimly.
> I have switched the front right socket as it looked a bit nasty as
> well as the turn signal switch but haven't had any luck yet. Any ideas
> ??

Jeff Strickland

What Mike said. And, most of the troubles seem to come from the tail light
assembly ...




"Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:43A441BC.2A3569FB@sympatico.ca...
> That is the symptom of a bad ground in the taillight fixture or a broken
> bulb.
>
> The taillight fixtures ground via the bolts that hold them onto the body
> and when that ground goes bad, the brake and signal bulb steals a ground
> through the running lights. It is the running or parking lights you are
> seeing flash on the other side.
>
> Sometimes the glass can fall out of the brass base on the bulb itself
> which can cause it too.
>
> Mike
> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
> Aug./05 http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2120343242
> (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)
>
> zander wrote:
>>
>> Hi Folks, I have a 93 Wrangler YJ and am having a weird signal light
>> problem. If you signal right everything works normally, but if you
>> signal left the left lights come on as well as the right signals dimly.
>> I have switched the front right socket as it looked a bit nasty as
>> well as the turn signal switch but haven't had any luck yet. Any ideas
>> ??

Jeff Strickland

What Mike said. And, most of the troubles seem to come from the tail light
assembly ...




"Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:43A441BC.2A3569FB@sympatico.ca...
> That is the symptom of a bad ground in the taillight fixture or a broken
> bulb.
>
> The taillight fixtures ground via the bolts that hold them onto the body
> and when that ground goes bad, the brake and signal bulb steals a ground
> through the running lights. It is the running or parking lights you are
> seeing flash on the other side.
>
> Sometimes the glass can fall out of the brass base on the bulb itself
> which can cause it too.
>
> Mike
> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
> Aug./05 http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2120343242
> (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)
>
> zander wrote:
>>
>> Hi Folks, I have a 93 Wrangler YJ and am having a weird signal light
>> problem. If you signal right everything works normally, but if you
>> signal left the left lights come on as well as the right signals dimly.
>> I have switched the front right socket as it looked a bit nasty as
>> well as the turn signal switch but haven't had any luck yet. Any ideas
>> ??

Jeff Strickland

What Mike said. And, most of the troubles seem to come from the tail light
assembly ...




"Mike Romain" <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:43A441BC.2A3569FB@sympatico.ca...
> That is the symptom of a bad ground in the taillight fixture or a broken
> bulb.
>
> The taillight fixtures ground via the bolts that hold them onto the body
> and when that ground goes bad, the brake and signal bulb steals a ground
> through the running lights. It is the running or parking lights you are
> seeing flash on the other side.
>
> Sometimes the glass can fall out of the brass base on the bulb itself
> which can cause it too.
>
> Mike
> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
> Canadian Off Road Trips Photos: Non members can still view!
> Aug./05 http://www.imagestation.com/album/in...?id=2120343242
> (More Off Road album links at bottom of the view page)
>
> zander wrote:
>>
>> Hi Folks, I have a 93 Wrangler YJ and am having a weird signal light
>> problem. If you signal right everything works normally, but if you
>> signal left the left lights come on as well as the right signals dimly.
>> I have switched the front right socket as it looked a bit nasty as
>> well as the turn signal switch but haven't had any luck yet. Any ideas
>> ??

zander

Went through every ground I could find and it has fixed the problem.
Not sure which one wasn't the best but its all better now. Thanks for
the input.

zander

Went through every ground I could find and it has fixed the problem.
Not sure which one wasn't the best but its all better now. Thanks for
the input.

zander

Went through every ground I could find and it has fixed the problem.
Not sure which one wasn't the best but its all better now. Thanks for
the input.