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Need help debugging my rear lighting issues

Moparfiend

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Need help debugging my rear lighting for my 1970 Plymouth Satellite.

Symptoms:
Rear tail lights:
Driver side…………Passenger side
Running lights OK. Running lights OK
Brake lights OK. No brake lights
Turn signal OK. No Turn signal
No emergency flasher. No emergency flasher
No reverse lights
License plate light works
Front signals ok also emergency flashers.

All new bulbs and sockets in rear
Instrument signal lights work
New turn signal switch (untested until now).

I took the steering wheel off and inspected the switch. Horn sometimes goes off with turn signal switch. Looking at this now.
 
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So I just checked the body connector and sure enough similar issues persists the there. It must be a harness issue right?
 
It appears that the turn signal switch surprisingly is showing all the hazard and turn flashing. This is pointing to the harness between the switch and the body connector somewhere.

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Just updating this thread. I got everything working except the rear hazards. The front hazards work so it’s not the switch. I have signal down to the body connector un-plugged. So the issue is in the rear harness but I have turn signals and brakes and running lights in the rear. Kinda strange.
 
Just updating this thread. I got everything working except the rear hazards. The front hazards work so it’s not the switch. I have signal down to the body connector un-plugged. So the issue is in the rear harness but I have turn signals and brakes and running lights in the rear. Kinda strange.
Probably a grounding issue with the lights.
 
The weird thing here is, if you got brakes you should get hazzards since wiring is the same for both.

The issue is, hazzard contact is not getting the rears into the switch itself.
 
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