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Posted: Sat Apr 24th, 2021 10:47 am

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Just venting, I'll find it but my daily driver truck (Jalapeno) has one of those EP27 flashers on it so I could eventually add LED's plus it works better for trailers. I put all that front end stuff on it last summer and never noticed the right turn signals in the front didn't work because there is no difference in the flash speed. DRL works fine just no bright flash.

So I dropped the bumper a little today to get to the screws easily, pulled the lights out of the lens. Turned on the E flashers so I could figure the polarity on the LED's walk around front and the regular bulbs are flashing. ? Shook things around a little no change.

So I bet even with LED's when I put the bumper back up I get no flash and there will be some stupid pinched wire from the accident it was evidently involved in before I bought it.

end of rant. Have a great day!

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Posted: Sun Apr 25th, 2021 04:56 am

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Or it could just be a bad contact between bulb & holder?

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Posted: Sun Apr 25th, 2021 11:42 am

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2 bulbs, both following each other that's why I thought wire.

Strange thing is I put it back together with the LED's and it hasn't been a problem.

However the cam sensor gave me fits till I found the bad wires and worked for a month at a time then would rattle loose.

This truck needs a harness, I think there was damage caused by the accident before I bought it. I don't know why I love this truck so much it has been a pain at times. I think it stems from the low price I paid, my affinity to the Jalape±o.

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Posted: Sun Apr 25th, 2021 12:32 pm

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I have done two harness jobs. One was from a bare bones diagram and spools of wire. It replaced a Lucas harness. It solved all the problems once I replaced the wires and gages. Less than $150 back in the early 80's. The other was a "Painless Harness" that ran about $500 for a 67 Ford Falcon 3 years ago.

If I had to do another one I would pay the Painless price. The one I did was to help a friend out that had zero wiring experience.

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