Dave145
Well-Known Member
Hi everyone, I'm new here! I recently acquired a 1964 Dodge Polara 4 door hardtop that was sitting for quite a long time. Long story short, we drove her from Kentucky to Wisconsin two weeks ago, and I have slowly been working on her since. I'm not new to classics, and not at all new to classic mopars. The issue is this:
I call it the ghost light. It turns itself on, and haunts my whole dashboard right side. The right turn signal indicator will randomly turn on and glow steady. When it does, all of my gauges peg to full, and occasionally my right side dash lights dims way low too (left side is fine and unaffected). To make the ghost light turn off, simply turn on the right turn signal and turn it off again. The light only comes on when the headlights or running lights are on. The issue is hit or miss...sometimes it happens every 5 minutes, other times not at all.
So far, I have cleaned all the bulb sockets outside the car of crud and grime, replaced all the bulb front to rear (di electric greased them to for water resistance). I cleaned the grounding points for my tail lights and front markers.
When this light comes on and the dashboard gets weird, NO turn signal bulbs are illuminated outside the car. The headlights and taillights lights stay on however. This leads me to believe the issue is in the cluster.
The ground from the block to battery is decent and recently replaced. The ground from block to firewall is okay. The insulation is cracking off, but the copper is still solid and pliable (will replace that cable tonight though).
What could be causing this? I know the cluster regulator going bad could peg the gauges, but that shouldn't effect the indicator. Any suggestions?
I call it the ghost light. It turns itself on, and haunts my whole dashboard right side. The right turn signal indicator will randomly turn on and glow steady. When it does, all of my gauges peg to full, and occasionally my right side dash lights dims way low too (left side is fine and unaffected). To make the ghost light turn off, simply turn on the right turn signal and turn it off again. The light only comes on when the headlights or running lights are on. The issue is hit or miss...sometimes it happens every 5 minutes, other times not at all.
So far, I have cleaned all the bulb sockets outside the car of crud and grime, replaced all the bulb front to rear (di electric greased them to for water resistance). I cleaned the grounding points for my tail lights and front markers.
When this light comes on and the dashboard gets weird, NO turn signal bulbs are illuminated outside the car. The headlights and taillights lights stay on however. This leads me to believe the issue is in the cluster.
The ground from the block to battery is decent and recently replaced. The ground from block to firewall is okay. The insulation is cracking off, but the copper is still solid and pliable (will replace that cable tonight though).
What could be causing this? I know the cluster regulator going bad could peg the gauges, but that shouldn't effect the indicator. Any suggestions?