[QUOTE=spoke;10300338]There are 5 spade connectors in the wiring of the front turnsignal bucket. 3 wires come from the vehicle:
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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.
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Spoke that was a BIG help. Now I know the "parking light" is working as intended (even if only on one side), and after reconnecting the ground spade to the reflector body (where it had been until I ran into the parking light mystery) the driver side turn signal is back to working. The other side got half filled with water during a rainy drive a few weeks back so I guess I need to spend some more time on the connections in there.
Thanks again, all you Pelicanites!