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Originally Posted by Paul Crowther
Spoke, regarding your comment about the ground being removed from the front signals, the photo shows the connectors I'm working with. The circled red connectors go to the spades as indicated, but the yellow connector seems to have no place to go. I THOUGHT it went to a spade on back of socket, but since that spade is aluminum it didn't make sense. Does it get connected to anything?
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There are 5 spade connectors in the wiring of the front turnsignal bucket. 3 wires come from the vehicle:
Black/White: Turnsignal power
Gray/Red: Running light power
Brown: Ground
The Gray/Red and Brown wires have additional spade connectors which connect to the 2 male spades on the back of the bucket. These 2 wires go to the sidemarker.
The brown ground spade connects to the reflector body in the picture below.
On my car, the bottom spade on the back of the bucket is ground. These 2 wires to the sidemarker can be swapped if the sidemarker is an incandescent light bulb. If an LED bulb is used for the sidemarker, the polarity of these 2 wires is important. I've run into a few cars where these 2 wires were connected backwards and an LED sidemarker wouldn't light up where a bulb would.
