{"id":1662,"date":"2025-08-12T19:55:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T23:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2025-09-22T23:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:54:24","slug":"front-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/front-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Front lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The LH marker\/turn lamp did not work at all, and the RH one only worked for the turn signal element. I took the lens off of the LH marker and discovered there was no bulb in it at all. I could not get the new bulb into the socket, so I unbolted it from the grille. Unfortunately I broke both of the studs in the process, so I had to drill out the studs and replace them with bolts. The spring-loaded contacts at the bottom of the socket were not moving freely, which explained why I couldn’t get a new bulb in. After some PBBlaster and wire brushing, I got it cleaned up enough to accept the bulb. The RH side I managed to only break one of the two studs, so I only had to drill out and replace one of those. There was a bulb in the socket, but it was very discolored and obviously not in usable shape. It was also corroded into the socket, making it very difficult to remove. I sprayed it down with PBBlaster and let that soak. To remove the bulb, I put some heavy duty duct tape around the end of a tube and taped it to the bulb. After working it around for a while I finally convinced it to come out. A pass with a wire brush shined all the contacts back up, and the new bulb went in. Both the marker and turn lamps work now.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I was pretty sure the dimmer switch was bad, so I ordered a new one in the last batch of parts. I tried cycling the switch a bunch of times to see if I could get it working. The low beams worked, but the high beams did not. When I was trying to unplug the original dimmer switch, it broke and fell apart, so it was good that I had the replacement. The new switch worked the same as the old one, low beams worked but not high. I knew one of the bulbs was bad, so I had ordered replacements for those also. After replacing both bulbs, they both work on high and low beam.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The LH marker\/turn lamp did not work at all, and the RH one only worked for the turn signal element. I took the lens off of the LH marker and discovered there was no bulb in it at all. I could not get the new bulb into the socket, so I unbolted it from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c10","category-electrical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}