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Subject:Re: was: 91 Carat..... now: Fast Turn Signal Issues
From:JRodgers
Date:Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:21:22 -0500

I will attest to that.

Mark -swapping the wires took care of my  fast blinker problem.

John

On 6/30/2014 2:12 PM, mark drillock wrote:
> 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.
>>
>

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