Passenger Side Brake and Turn Signal Not working

[clays123]

Need help with lights..

My brake light and turn signal on the passenger side is not working, they worked in the past but thin something went wrong when the painter reassembled the car, I had to fix a few things.

All the other lights including the hazzards (all 4), parking lights works, licence plate, all work as they should.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Clayton

[j33ptj]

Check the ground!!!

in my experience most lights fail due to a bad grounding

[33fromSD]

My 2 cents would be ......and by "ground", not a simple self tapping sheet metal screw through the frame. On any grounding spot a dime sized section of paint should be sanded down to bare metal so the whole ring on the terminal touches the bare metal. Also any wires used for grounding should not just have a ring type connector that is crimped only, always crimp the connector and solder it.

Can't tell you how many hours I have spent helping folks fix electrical issues where it turned out to be the above stuff.

Jim

[33fromSD]

Also, doing the above will still not result in success unless you have a good base ground (with 4Awg wire) from the battery negative to the frame, and additional grounding (4 Awg) from frame to engine and if it's steel body car from frame to body and if it's a truck, frame to cab & frame to box.

You do this, no matter where you are trying to connect up electrical stuff you will have a fool proof ground (if you also do what I noted in the post before this one)

Jim

[JohnK]

On any grounding spot a dime sized section of paint should be sanded down to bare metal so the whole ring on the terminal touches the bare metal.

I would add to this to say that after doing the above, the ring terminal and area that's been ground down to bare metal get a coating of dielectric grease. otherwise, the "bare metal" will only be bare metal momentarily, after which it will be rusted metal.

[33fromSD]

I would add to this to say that after doing the above, the ring terminal and area that's been ground down to bare metal get a coating of dielectric grease. otherwise, the "bare metal" will only be bare metal momentarily, after which it will be rusted metal.

yup, agree

Jim