Seems like your contact on that parking light is searching for a ground
path. I had a similar problem on a previous project and on one I did the
soldering deal and it worked great.
The other option you have is to connect an extra ground wire from the bulb
socket to the fender or the frame which I had to do on my Sister Camaro
taillight. Some bulb sockets already come with the ground wire attached to
the socket due to poor contact between the socket and housing.
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim House <jhouse@ccsolution.com>
To: Oletrucks (E-mail) <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, February 15, 2001 6:15 AM
Subject: [oletrucks] 46 Parking Lights
>I rewired my headlights by purchasing new three prong plugs and wiring
these
>back to the terminating block. I also purchased new center posts with
>springs for the parking lights and ran the wire back to the terminating
>block.
>
>Well on the driver side I can not get the parking light to work without
>running a wire to the center ring (cup) that holds the bulb. I took my
>Drummel and scrubbed the whole area and can not get a contact to the cup.
>What seems to be going on is that there is a larger circle about the size
of
>a quarter that the cup sits into. This is some way is insulating the cup
>from the frame. If I run a screwdriver across this and touch the outside
of
>the cup the parking light will work. My daughter came up with the idea
that
>I can take a chunk of aluminum foil and place it around the cup and touch
>the frame then the light works (for now). What I was thinking of doing was
>filling the cup with solder out to the ring to make a contact. The
>passenger side works great without this. Is there something I am missing?
>I did not pull the headlight mount from the frame (last resort). Should I
>look under this piece - is there something like a JUMPER wire missing on
the
>driver side? Has anyone got an idea? I would like to keep it as original
>as possible so I really do not want to solder.
>
>Thanks,
>Jim House
>46 Chevy 3104
>Hollis, NH
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