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steve from staten island

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This car is seriously beating me down. Its never ending. I installed the new dual diaphragm booster, changed lines, bleed brakes. I reattached the stop light wires and found out the left brake light is not working. No power to the terminal. I took off the drivers side kick panel and checked it and there is no power coming out of harness
The right side has juice. The left feed is a green wire. When you put on he hazard flashers the left rear side works when you step on the brake the lite stays steady. When you turn off the hazard light, same problem.
I cant trace were that green wire goes. The harness connections are all tight.
Brand new complete car harness from Year One.
I checked as much as i could and i have the color wiring diagram.
After fooling around for so long I'm thinking its the hazard switch
What gets me is everything else works, the right brake light included. What gives any thoughts are appreciated
 
If your 4 ways work and turn signals then it is in steering column
 
So your brake light only works to the side that is not flashing with turn signals
 
Everything works except drivers side brake. Directionals, hazards . Its in the directional switch. When the brakes are applied the power to the right side wire is good and that side lights. The green wire at the connection to directional switch is no power, jump it the brake light now lights. The directionals work but the switch never felt right from when i got it back. The switch is cheap aftermarket garbage. As far as i can tell its in the switch and the only thing left is to replace it. Thanks for the help
 
WileERobby said:
You didn't answer my question.
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I appreciate your help as well as others but i did write the hazards work as well as directionals and jumping wires makes the brake light work. Wouldn't that indicate the ground at that point is good. Im running around doing for my wife and my mother in law, and everything else, so i forgot to answer you
Im annoyed to hell. I paid good money to have this steering column rebuilt and the directional switch is a POS. It never felt right and since i had no idea the brake light runs through it i never checked the brake lights or maybe i did and it stop working since. I dont remember. What i do know is the biggest problem I've seen so far with these cars is aftermarket cheap parts.
 
Hey Steve.
I bought a decent quality turn signal switch from a member here that is in Canada.

The Chinese reproduction pieces are a joke.
 
steve from staten island said:
I appreciate your help as well as others but i did write the hazards work as well as directionals and jumping wires makes the brake light work. Wouldn't that indicate the ground at that point is good. Im running around doing for my wife and my mother in law, and everything else, so i forgot to answer you
Im annoyed to hell. I paid good money to have this steering column rebuilt and the directional switch is a POS. It never felt right and since i had no idea the brake light runs through it i never checked the brake lights or maybe i did and it stop working since. I dont remember. What i do know is the biggest problem I've seen so far with these cars is aftermarket cheap parts.
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Electrical Rule #1: always check ALL your grounds first. Sometimes you may find its the simplest remedy. I did a similar job as your years ago, which turned out to be a bad tail lamp ground, that's reality, not theory. Jump BOTH tail lamp bulb housings to ground first. If the symptom corrects, at least you won't waste time and money chasing after the problem.
 
steve from staten island said:
I appreciate your help as well as others but i did write the hazards work as well as directionals and jumping wires makes the brake light work. Wouldn't that indicate the ground at that point is good. Im running around doing for my wife and my mother in law, and everything else, so i forgot to answer you
Im annoyed to hell. I paid good money to have this steering column rebuilt and the directional switch is a POS. It never felt right and since i had no idea the brake light runs through it i never checked the brake lights or maybe i did and it stop working since. I dont remember. What i do know is the biggest problem I've seen so far with these cars is aftermarket cheap parts.
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Electrical Rule #1: always check ALL your grounds first. Sometimes you may find its the simplest remedy. I did a similar job as your years ago, which turned out to be a bad tail lamp ground, that's reality, not theory. Jump BOTH tail lamp bulb housings to ground first. If the symptom corrects, at least you won't waste time and money chasing after the problem.
 
WileERobby said:
Electrical Rule #1: always check ALL your grounds first. Sometimes you may find its the simplest remedy. I did a similar job as your years ago, which turned out to be a bad tail lamp ground, that's reality, not theory. Jump BOTH tail lamp bulb housings to ground first. If the symptom corrects, at least you won't waste time and money chasing after the problem.
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Agreed 100% and I'm confident that bulb ground is good. I took the directional switch apart. The white wire coming in to the switch when stop light switch is engaged feeds through the directional to the brown wire and on to the right side brake light. What i dont get is how or what feeds the green wire which goes to the drivers side brake light. It appears to be the red wire. The power for the brake lights looks like it comes in through the hazard switch.
 
Are you just tracing them in the car or do you have a schematic ?
 
Bad hazard switch. If the light works with the hazard then it is not a ground issue, well, because the light is working.
 
Steve, you said you had the column rebuilt. When I rebuilt my steering column, I repainted everything. My problem was the same as yours. My turn signal switch was not returning to the center position when it cancelled after a turn causing the same issues as yours. My turn signal arm didn't feel right either. The problem ended up being in the turn signal arm where the screw goes through the turn signal arm into the housing. There was too much paint in the column at that hole causing it to bind. Clean some of the paint out of that hole so the signal arm centers properly after it cancels and you will probably have solved the problem.
 
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