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hershey
Oct 15, 2013Explorer
Bobbo wrote:hershey wrote:
Your query is kinda' like "How high is up?" :)
The break in the wire could be anywhere in the total length of your MH.
Heres what I would do if faced with the same problem:
Find the wire that goes to the right tail light and connect a wire to it and run it to the pigtail of the left tail light. Break that tail light wire there and then splice the right tail lights wire to the left. Good to go.
Now that won't work with the turn signals. Or the brake lights if the turn signals are a part of them and not a seperate amber light.
OP said it is his turn signal, not his tail light that is bad, so this does not apply.
Did you test from the 12v hot of the tail light to its ground, or to a known good ground you have established? If you tested to the light's ground, you still don't know if it is the hot wire or the ground wire that is bad.
After testing for current on the hot wire to a known good ground that you provide, check for a good ground to a known good hot that you provide too. That way you know for sure which wire(s) need attention.
If the ground wire is bad, just run a new ground wire to the frame.
If the hot wire is, indeed, the bad wire, you will have to trace it back. Yes, there is a fuse that controls that circuit. That would be the first place to check. If the fuse is good, check for current TO the fuse. You now know whether to look before the fuse block or after the fuse block, assuming the fuse itself was good.
Thanks for catching that. Sometimes I have difficulty when people type too close to the paper :)
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