front marker lights

[jcolville89]

i have a 69 rr went out for a ride the other night on the way back home it got dark on me. I turned the lights on and noticed i hade zero marker lights in the front. The rest of the lights work fine. i turned the 4 ways on they worked also turn signals work fine just zero makers. Anyone know what could cause this maybe a ground issue. if so where do they ground i know they are picky on groundin sometimes thanks

 

[ArtH]

i have a 69 rr went out for a ride the other night on the way back home it got dark on me. I turned the lights on and noticed i hade zero marker lights in the front. The rest of the lights work fine. i turned the 4 ways on they worked also turn signals work fine just zero makers. Anyone know what could cause this maybe a ground issue. if so where do they ground i know they are picky on groundin sometimes thanks

Check the connectors looking for corrosion or maybe a loose fit. My Chevy pickup's rear modular lights sometimes don't work. I found that just a little "tap" on the whole module gets them working. It's got to be a poor connection. I am not familiar with the lights on your car. Are the bulbs you are talking about have more than one filament?

 

[vin_vl29u]

Did they ever work? Thinking maybe wrong bulbs.

 

[Propwash]

Are you talking about the front parking/turn signal light's? 1969 roadrunners did not come with lighted side marker lights...just reflector's.
Or are your talking about the fender mounted turn signal indicator's?

 

[Mebsuta]

On my 68, the forward-facing ambers, which are the same as the turn signals, have always gone out when you turn the headlights on.

 

[hunt2elk]

On my 68, the forward-facing ambers, which are the same as the turn signals, have always gone out when you turn the headlights on.

That shouldn't happen.

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i have a 69 rr went out for a ride the other night on the way back home it got dark on me. I turned the lights on and noticed i hade zero marker lights in the front. The rest of the lights work fine. i turned the 4 ways on they worked also turn signals work fine just zero makers. Anyone know what could cause this maybe a ground issue. if so where do they ground i know they are picky on groundin sometimes thanks

If the blinkers and hazards work, then the ground is ok. I would start with checking the headlight switch.

 

[Nacho-RT74]

the diff between 68s and 69s to keep front parkings on when headlights is just one jumper wire on plug/harness between front and rear parking lights prongs. Those switch feeds separatelly both due the earliers setup... switch itself remained the same

You could get something wrong on the link between rear and front parking prongs/sources. Call it jumper, or splice or whatever

 

[Randra]

My 68's forward facing markers have always gone off with the headlights on. Always thought it was sapposed to be that way.

 

[Dennis H]

Now I'm confused. Are they on with the headlights or not?

 

[Nacho-RT74]

My 68's forward facing markers have always gone off with the headlights on. Always thought it was sapposed to be that way.

it must be untill 68... on 69s that changed, keeping on the parking lights allong with headlights... the only change made was a jumper wire or splice to get together front parking lights with rears parking lights prongs on switch plug. Switch itself didn't change



since diagram between years shows the switch in diff position I reversed one of them to show them clearer.

red lines pointing out the unexistant jumper... those are the rear and front parking lights prongs:

another diff or wiring can be found is of course the sidemarkers light which is unexistant on 69s ( that's why you find two wires coming off the R prong on 68 diagram and not on 69 ). Also 69 harness shows a gray wire spliced into the pink one to feed the clock, thats all, but nothing major to the lights function.

Dunno where is really the jumper, or if there is an splice allong the harness getting this two sources together, 'cause diagrams deoesn't show necesarilly EXACTLY what the harness got, but must be around

 

[Mebsuta]

My 68's forward facing markers have always gone off with the headlights on. Always thought it was sapposed to be that way.

I thought it was supposed to be that way too and I'm not changing it.

 

[A383Wing]

yes, all pre-69 cars had the front park lights go out when the headlights were turned on....easy fix if you want them to stay on with headlights, just tie the front park light circuit in with the rear light circuit at the headlight switch. I have done it to all my pre-69 cars....

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I also made my 69 reflectors light up in the Daytona

 

[john28ryr]

I also made my 69 reflectors light up in the Daytona

Hi A383 - care to share a little more about how you did the 69 reflector to light conversions - that is sweet.

 

[A383Wing]

I was gonna make a thread on it, along with how to make them flash with turn signals, but I'll make a quick post here on how to light up the reflectors.

Find some mid-70's A body side marker lights, cut the square portion of the housing that the bulb sits in off of the housing, take the part you just cut off and sit it on the 69 housing on the inside, trace around the cut off bulb housing on the 69 inside, carefully cut the traced square out of the 69 housing, glue the cut off square on to 69 housing and install bulb holder with 194 style bulb and wire into parking light wire

 

[john28ryr]

Thanks A383Wing!

Pretty slick. As for the flashing with turn signals - believe you just reroute the side marker ground to the turn signal feed IIRC from other threads (and what I did on my F150)

 

[A383Wing]

yes, take the wires for marker light and connect them to both power wires on front turn signal/parking light....

 

[jcolville89]

finally the other day i went out and looked at it. come to find out had a wire back out of the bulk head connectors was a easy fix.