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Duster tail light grounds #2032950
03/17/16 09:47 AM
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We have a new M&H harness to the back and the tail light sockets have male wiring prongs on them. All 4 sockets. I wasn't the one that pulled the wiring out, but my son told me that there was only 1 ground wire going from a socket on the DS to tail light housing.

Do all 4 sockets get a ground wire?

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Re: Duster tail light grounds [Re: cdstl] #2033135
03/17/16 02:10 PM
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If you have painted your car, grounds always are an issue. On my 1970 Sport Satellite, I built a ground wire for each socket and wired to good body ground. Never an issue then. My two cents worth, save yourself a headache and ground em all . . .

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Mark

Re: Duster tail light grounds [Re: a12rag] #2033477
03/17/16 11:21 PM
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those are parallel circuits which means each bulb must be grounded to the metal frame either seperately or by a common black ground wire linking all the socket bases to the frame. Pull a batt cable (good habit to get into when checking ohms). switch meter to ohms. see if you have continuity between each taillight housing and nearby floorpan metal. If not then what A12 said, add em


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Re: Duster tail light grounds [Re: cdstl] #2033483
03/17/16 11:27 PM
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Thanks guys. We had planned on making grounds for all of the bulbs but I was just checking to see if someone had seen a stock setup.


1972 Cuda 340 4 speed, 2001 Ram CTD 4x4 6 speed, 1970 Duster 408 4 speed, 1996 Ram 5.9 2x4 auto, 1965 Coronet 500






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