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Subject:Re: was: 91 Carat..... now: Fast Turn Signal Issues
From:mark drillock
Date:Mon, 30 Jun 2014 12:12:48 -0700

It is just 3 wires with 3 female spade ends on them. The bulb socket has
3 male spades. The brown wire is ground and goes to the middle spade.
The other 2 can go wherever they need to for the brighter bulb filament
to light for the blinkers.

Mark

Neil N wrote:
> Admittedly, I've never changed a front blinker-parking light assembly.
>
> So the connector for this housing is not keyed?
>
> Very useful information Mark.
>
> Neil.
>
> On 6/30/14, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
>
>
>> .... The flasher relay expects to blink the brighter filament
>> and if things are wired so it blinks the dimmer one then it sees a
>> problem and blinks fast. The 2 outer wires on the front socket may be
>> plugged in reversed and this reverses which filament is for the blinkers.
>