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rogbell

02-02-2016 @ 6:50 PM

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Roger,
Still working on it. So far it looks like I'll have to replace the chassis harness.
Roger

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02-01-2016 @ 2:53 PM

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any luck in fixing the problem

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02-01-2016 @ 1:45 PM

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My car is a 36 woodie. I was out to wavecrest last fall. in Encinita. Proble go this year.

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01-31-2016 @ 6:58 PM

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I'm in Sourthern California, in Temecula.

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01-31-2016 @ 3:01 PM

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No mine was in the oil leak out the rear main seal, I finely found it was a burn out through the intake manifold. Who would have thought, I pulled the pan off several times.
Hope you do not have to pull the wiring harness out. like I said check that there is not a short in the tail light bulbs by pulling them out,check the plug connectors. if that was not the problem un plug every thing from the start of the harness and check, then start plugging the connectors in one a time from the front to back and checking every time you plug one in. I can not think that it is in the harness wires. Check the switch by passing it and checking. Then un plug the switch and check if that fixes it, the switch should break the connunity on my 36 it mounts by the brake lever.

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where are you from I'm from Des Moines Iowa area.

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01-30-2016 @ 6:54 PM

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Roger,
Did you have the same problem and, if so, how did you resolve it?
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01-30-2016 @ 9:42 AM

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Roger

make sure every one is talking of which side of the disk it is wire side or terminal side. you may look at the light bulbs and make sure you don't have a short there you can un plug them from the wireing harness there check to see if this helps. which I could be thee to help as I had a simple problem like this and could not find it.

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01-30-2016 @ 8:29 AM

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I don't know if this would apply.If there is a crack on the Bakelite could there be a short as in a distributor cap?

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01-30-2016 @ 5:08 AM

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When you use your test light connect one side (clip) to the chassis ground and use the other side to probe the wire terminals. This will tell you which wire is energized. When you connect between two wires it tells you one wire is energized and the other is ground but not which one. You want the Y/R wire AND the G wire to both be energized. although the wires may be on separate terminals the terminals (3) are all common. so there should be IN ADDITION a third terminal adjacent to the Y/R & G wire terminals that is also energized.

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Thanks to you and everyone else who offered suggestions. At this point what is happening doesn't even appear to be physically or logically possible. I'm going to pull the current harness out and try a new one. If that doesn't work, I'll just have to live with no brake or tail lights. Whomever owns the car after me can deal with it.

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