Hello all, hopefully someone can help narrow this down for me. The taillights on the 66 Special are acting up. I am guessing it might be a ground issue somewhere. When I turn on the right blinker, both taillights flash and the dash indicator only flashes the right side is flashing. When I turn off the right blinker, the taillights continue to flash and the dash indicator stops flashing. If I press the brakes while the right blinker is on, the taillights both stop flashing and the brake lights come on. The dash indicator light stays on without flashing. The only way to stop the flashing is to turn on the left blinker and then turn it off. The left seems to work fine as do the front indicator bulbs. When the rear lights are acting up, the front are doing just as they are supposed to! All other lights work as intended parking lights headlights and backup lights. This has me stumped, any thoughts would be great. Jarrod
Check all your grounds first make sure they are getting a good connection. One thing that I have run into (multiple times) is a turn signal switch getting a short in it which causes all sorts of craziness in the signal lights. Try wiggling the connector wires on the sockets and see if that affects anything.
Remove one bumper bolt/nut. Clean the bolt and nut, as well as the area the bolt and bumper makes contact with the frame, reassemble and see if it changes. If that fixes it, do the remaining bolts one at a time so the bumper does not shift. What you describe as a symptom is very indicative of ground issue, so the path takes route(s) through the wiring and finds another ground, illuminating lights along the way. Typical drunk electrons doing a pub crawl...
