Hey all here is the question for you. I was driving home the other day and my right side blinker slowly quit.

The facts!!
Getting voltage to the flasher(can hear it click)
No right arrow indicator on dash.
Works fine going to the left
When the hazards are on all light work (including the righ arrow on the dash)
NO Voltage getting to the signal bulbs!




This is the problem that I posted earlier in the week, Now I have replaced the turn signal switch and it didn't fix it at all. Now I was testing on it and brought a 12 volt lead to the wire harness to test if voltage would get to the lights and it did!! Now I know there are no broken wires. THen I tried it again and everything started working correctly???? Why is this happening? What could be wrong? What am I missing?

Brian Felts

 

check your wire harness up under the hood for a bad ground, i had a problem exactly like that.

 

Thats what I have been looking for. Where should I find this wire harness groung. The thing that is driving me nuts is that I also have a 89 RS that is doing the exact same thing.


Brian Felts

 

ok, im my 88 camaro the wires went...
came out of the fire wall below the brake booster almost. then they went down and ran at teh edge of the fender wall, right close to the engine and beside the steering arm. it does a little bend and goes into the nose of the car after it plugs into the drivers side headlights/park light. you can trace the harness by undoing the plastic thing infront of the rad. use a screw driver to lift the middle part of the pastic thing up, than you lift the whole works up, you'll probable break them all i cant remember if the harness grounds to the chassis or not, i dont think so though. inside the harness the ground wire is black. from each light a wire runs down the harness and meets up with other black wires, there'll be like a little junction of 2/3 wires. thats where mine had came apart. hope this helps
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A similar situation on my Firebird I can't figure out. Left signal works fine, most of the time, but the right will only light up and not flash. But with the parking or head lights on the front signal light will not come on. Hazards on, all lights flash except the right front marker. Brand new flasher and checked all the bulbs so that shouldn't be the problem.

Guess when my dad get's back with my keys, I'll have to mess with that.

 

Well thanks for all the help, The problem is now fixed. I found that the right side marker wires seem to slip under the battery and had just about broken in half. My other 89 RS is doing the same thing. I have not got to look at it but I bet that the wires are under the battery also.


Thanks
Brian Felts

 

there is a ground on chassy at both front head lights(both sides of car) right behind the bulbs in engine compartment