Buickboat Posted October 13, 2003 Share Posted October 13, 2003 Hi all, first time posting here. Recently, I acquired a 66 olds toronado, and I had everything ready to go for driving (except for the headlights). So, I take it out for a spin, and I come back, do the old check-see-if-everything-is-still-working, and no brake lights, OR rear turn signals! If I plug a test light into the wires that feed the juice for brake/signal (test light grounded to the car body) The test light shows light when I depress the brake pedal, and when I turn the signals, it flashes just like the lights SHOULD. The most recent thing I did to the car was put in a new heater core. Prior to that, I had been having some trouble with the turn signal switch, it seems to be bad, but I could not get the @#$% thing out of there to replace it, so I just sprayed some liquid wrench in were I could, and it seemed to clear things up, I had signals the whole nine yards. What could it be for them to both go out? <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Thanks for all your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buickboat Posted October 13, 2003 Author Share Posted October 13, 2003 I forgot to mention, it makes no difference with parking lights on or off. I also have the tilt/telescoping steering column with directional lights.-Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted October 15, 2003 Share Posted October 15, 2003 You're the 2nd first series Toro owner who has had this problem recently.Since you've got juice at the sockets, the only thing I can come up with is bad bulbs or wrong bulbs. 1157 (double filament/double contact bulbs) should work fine. You may be losing ground at the sockets. Those no-good GM taillight sockets from the 60s were notorious for doing stuff like this, though it's been a while since I heard of all going out at once. They can drive you nuts sometimes.If all else fails, get later-style replacement sockets that have a ground wire in addition to the stop and taillight leads. Install them, put a ring terminal on the ground lead and then screw it to the car body. That should eliminate any grounding issues.Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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