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sjbartnik
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 Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 10:14 am Post subject: Re: Tailgate and Brake light help |
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| beetleman217 wrote: |
| Checked the ground, it is solid. |
Nope.
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So I assumed the 3rd is "robbing" the left brake light of power, |
That's not how that works.
KTPhil and Wildthings told ya what you need to do.
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beetleman217
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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:00 pm Post subject: Re: Tailgate and Brake light help |
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Thank you all for the input.
Wiggling the terminals that attach to the body fixed everything before I had a chance to take the assembly out. I must've moved them unintentionally when f'ing around in there. A bad ground can do very strange things, so the moral of the story is "electrical oddities = bad ground".
I knew that powering the 3rd from the main brake light should work as it runs parallel. But I guess after scratching your head too long you start making up theories like "robbing of power"... 
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Amskeptic
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: Tailgate and Brake light help |
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| beetleman217 wrote: |
Thank you all for the input.
Wiggling the terminals that attach to the body fixed everything
A bad ground can do very strange things, so the moral of the story is "electrical oddities = bad ground".
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