blinker going fast *solved*

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:59 pm

OK heres my problem in the morning when I leave my headlights are on and when I turn right the blinker gos really fast as if there was a bulb blown BUT when my headlights are off it works fine.SO I replaced all the bulbs and still nothing.And when this does happen on the rear of my truck the right blinker blinks the reverse lights blink and the tag lights blink.Anyone with any help please its driving me NUTZ

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SomeCrew · Post by **SomeCrew** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:25 pm

Can you get the wires mixed up? I never checked the wiring harness on an s-10, but if you can, did you check that? Also, I noticed on the trail ride that your passenger side light and brake light were dimmer than the drivers side.

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:41 pm

I replaced all the bulbs on that side still nothin.and you cant get anything mixed up diffrent size bulbs back there

adrenalnjunky · Post by **adrenalnjunky** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:44 pm

Mine does that randomly since I installed my keyless entry system - but only on the right side - but it might have been all of my front end auxillary lighting that I patched in to some relays too.

did you do the DRL cancel mod, or quad highbeam mod? Maybe something patched in wrong?

top_sgt · Post by **top_sgt** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:02 pm

check the ground wire at the right rear bumper area!!! typically if a light is dimmer than the opposite side light,, it has a bad ground!!

Pauleo · Post by **Pauleo** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:34 pm

Yep! Sounds like the ground in the back. Happened to me two different times. It was a ground wire on the driver side rear that was connected to a bolt in... I think the frame? I'll go see if I can take a pic & post ASAP!!!

Pauleo · Post by **Pauleo** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:46 pm

Well, wouldn't ya know it! My battery died in my digital camera!

Always right when I need it! Anyway, my ground connect to bolts on either side of the frame beside the bolts for the rear bumber mounts. Be careful tugging & pulling on them. I think my ground was pulled from from my fuel pump the first time I was under there trying to fix `em! That sucked!! Hope this helps!

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:16 am

Really sounds like a ground problem to me too. My old VW Bus is plagued with them (I really need to rewire it with a new harness) and does similar strange things.

coreylubahn · Post by **coreylubahn** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:02 am

Sounds like you're low on blinker fluid to me!!

SomeCrew · Post by **SomeCrew** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:30 am

If your low on blinker fluid, you might want to also check the muffler bearings...

top_sgt · Post by **top_sgt** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:31 am

but is it the red or the yellow blinker fluid???? big difference ya know!!

Post by **Walt** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:02 am

Blinker Fluid!! You may also want to top off your headlight fluid while you're at it

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:05 am

top_sgt wrote:but is it the red or the yellow blinker fluid???? big difference ya know!!

That and check to see if it takes the synthetic type! You can't mix them you know!

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:21 am

((COUGH)) dumba**

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:41 pm

checked wires all along the body and have changed bulbs , what the H*lls going on . Anymore ideas hate to pay someone to find this problem

quickbiker · Post by **quickbiker** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:06 pm

Take the ground wire and take it to a better ground. Same thing happened to me.

kf6kmx · Post by **kf6kmx** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 11:10 am

quickbiker wrote:Take the ground wire and take it to a better ground. Same thing happened to me.

Yep. fast blink when the lights are on is a ground issue..
Its normal at other times becuase its able to back-ground through the lights.. when the power is on, it looses that bath to ground and get flaky..

Also, if you are doing the blinker fluid, headlight fluid, and muffler bearings, might as well make it compelete checkup and rotate the air in the tires while you are busy with everything else..

coffeedrnkr · Post by **coffeedrnkr** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:14 pm

Hey!!!

make sure that the bulbs that you bought have the 2 elements in them, one for parking lamps and one for the blinker part. My friend did that same thing and we couldn't figure it out untill we took the bulbs out and looked at them and I told him he needed the bulbs with 2 elements in them.

Try it, I almost guarantee that is what is wrong (but if I am wrong I never said anything

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Sounds logical b/c when your headlights are off the parking lamps are off and they will blink normally but when they are on your parking lamps are on so when you turn on your blinker the bulb is getting twice the voltage so the blinker module blinks much faster (same as when a bulb is out, that voltage that would go to the bulb isn't being used by the burnt out one so the extra voltage makes the module blink faster)

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 4:16 pm

its still happening only the pass. side I have replaced all bulbs and gone around the truck checking all grounds that I can find and still no luck so to the shop shes gonna go next week.

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 4:40 am

Quickbiker what ground and where was it located that you had to move, I can only locate 1 ground at the rear on the driver side frame rail close to the shackle.

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:22 am

jeff024 wrote:Quickbiker what ground and where was it located that you had to move, I can only locate 1 ground at the rear on the driver side frame rail close to the shackle.

top_sgt pinched one when we reinstalled his rear bumper during BL . It was on the passenger side somewhere near the bumper bracket.

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:22 am

ok this is where im guessing my problems lies there is a GROUND still attached to the frame in the pic comming out of the wiring harness at the top of the pic this must have something to do with the fuel pump , unhooked the truck wont start BUT with the ground thats hanging attached back to the frame then I start to have lighting problems. Is there another ground at the rear somewhere im missing?

this pic is from the driver side I dont see any grounds on the pass. side thats the only 2 I could find in the rear

top_sgt · Post by **top_sgt** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 7:38 am

look on the right side of the rear bumper, there is a ground there,,, i pinched it during my BL......this may be your problem!!!
the green plug looks like the same on my right side!!!
is there two grounds where you took the pic????

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 7:46 am

yes there were 2 grounds connected to the same bolt , in the pic there is still 1 connected and the other is hanging

top_sgt · Post by **top_sgt** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 7:47 am

is the one hanging normally attached??? if you've changed bulbs and the grounds are ok.......i'm at a loss of what else to check!!!!

if you take your truck to the dealer, let us know how they fixed it!!

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:00 am

yes the 1 hanging is usually attached to the other 1 I was just trying to check each 1 I could find

Post by **HenryJ** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:11 am

top_sgt wrote:look on the right side of the rear bumper, ...
the green plug looks like the same on my right side!!!

Those "green plugs" are called splice packs. They are a gathering of ground wires.
You do have another one on the right rear frame rail with one small black wire grounded to a bolt just in front of the bumper bracket bolts.

This looks the same as the one that you have pictured.

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:19 am

i will have a pic of the other side in a min

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:32 am

ok heres the pass side

in the top pic you can see a loose wire it was in the wire harness but has come out could that be it and also I dont see a ground attached to bolt on this side

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:35 am

in the pic above I now see a stain of where the wire was attached to the bolt to the left of my hand in the top pic . I re-grounded the wire and ALL IS FINE NOW

thanks fellas as always you have come threw for me

Post by **HenryJ** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:53 am

An excellent deduction , Watson...

You have solved your problem , congrats

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:02 am

I could never see the stain of where the wire was attached until I took the pics
thanks again

top_sgt · Post by **top_sgt** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 9:53 am

congrats!!!

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blinker going fast solved

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