Biotex Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Just as a followup... Symptom: Activate left turn signal -Left turn signals work as expected. Activate right turn signals -Right turns signal work, but also the left ones blink dimmly. Left parking light also lights. What I did... Cleaned all grounds with no sucess. Checked all sockets for good ground. Found right front turn socket iffy so I replaced it. Did not fix the problem. Figured it had to be in the multifunction switch inside the column. Replaced it, no change... Took half the dash apart looking for chaffed wires or anything out of the ordinary. Can't find anything. All wires are in pristine original unmolested condition. The only thing I could find was the "I" terminal on the back of the headlight switch got hot at some point and melted the connector. I ordered a new switch and connector. While waiting for the parts to arrive, and at wits end, I decided to take every bulb out of its socket and coat them with di-electric grease, and recheck the sockets. What made me do this is because I unplugged the headlight switch completely and still had the same problem. So I'm thinking hmmm! that new switch ain't gonna fix it like I was hoping... So, I decided to unplug the front harness at the connector just behind the driver side headlight. I wanted to apply some grease to it as well anyway. When I tried the right turn signal with that harness unplugged, the problem was still there. So I'm thinking I just narrowed it down to the rear sockets. I took the right side rear lense off yet again, and removed the bulbs. I'm checking the terminals when it finally dawned on me that there are two terminals at the bottom of the socket, and only terminal on the end of the bulb. Its the wrong darned bulb type 1156 or something like that, and it was shorting across the two terminals inside the socket. I didn't know an 1156 would screw into an 1157 socket, but I guess they do. I installed the correct bulb, and problem solved! 3 days of troubleshooting and replacing parts, and it was something simple.... Heven't we all been there before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Backdraft Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Nice detective work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser54 Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Just as a followup... Symptom: Activate left turn signal -Left turn signals work as expected. Activate right turn signals -Right turns signal work, but also the left ones blink dimmly. Left parking light also lights. What I did... Cleaned all grounds with no sucess. Checked all sockets for good ground. Found right front turn socket iffy so I replaced it. Did not fix the problem. Figured it had to be in the multifunction switch inside the column. Replaced it, no change... Took half the dash apart looking for chaffed wires or anything out of the ordinary. Can't find anything. All wires are in pristine original unmolested condition. The only thing I could find was the "I" terminal on the back of the headlight switch got hot at some point and melted the connector. I ordered a new switch and connector. While waiting for the parts to arrive, and at wits end, I decided to take every bulb out of its socket and coat them with di-electric grease, and recheck the sockets. What made me do this is because I unplugged the headlight switch completely and still had the same problem. So I'm thinking hmmm! that new switch ain't gonna fix it like I was hoping... So, I decided to unplug the front harness at the connector just behind the driver side headlight. I wanted to apply some grease to it as well anyway. When I tried the right turn signal with that harness unplugged, the problem was still there. So I'm thinking I just narrowed it down to the rear sockets. I took the right side rear lense off yet again, and removed the bulbs. I'm checking the terminals when it finally dawned on me that there are two terminals at the bottom of the socket, and only terminal on the end of the bulb. Its the wrong darned bulb type 1156 or something like that, and it was shorting across the two terminals inside the socket. I didn't know an 1156 would screw into an 1157 socket, but I guess they do. I installed the correct bulb, and problem solved! 3 days of troubleshooting and replacing parts, and it was something simple.... Heven't we all been there before? Some people, like the PO of your Jeep most likely, can screw up an anvil with a rubber mallet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComancheKid45 Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Delt with the same problem a year or so ago....haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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