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bad safety inspection karma

Does this only happen to me? I have spend the past few nights with the jeep "studying" for the state safety and emissions test. The jeep is running great now, and I have taken care of a few odd things (like mud flaps, and the mirror that came off a while back). Last year the hazard light switch was flakey, but because of a fast tongue it passed. So last night I tear into the steering column and replace the turn signal / hazard switch, and walla all is well. Drove it around last night, and everything worked fine.

Until this morning ON THE WAY to the inspection house I notice that my left turn signal indicator light on the dash is not working. What could be wrong. For some reason my front signal does not work now, the dash indicator does not work, but the rear signal does work. The entire right side works fine. What is wrong this time??? Is there anything common with the dash indicator and front signal, that is not common with the rear light?

This is a 83 CJ7 Thanks for any ideas

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Rusted
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Burned out bulb?

Mike

86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

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Mike Romain

My first guess, I replaced the front bulb already. No change.

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Rusted

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L.W.( ßill ) Hughes III

You're not the only one.

Three years ago I pulled into the extortion station. There was already a car inside being tested. They told me to back up against the fence. I backed up and pushed the brake pedal. The pedal went to the floor as a brake line let go.

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Steve Foley

Still does not account for why the rear works, and not the front or the dash. The column only knows "blinker on" - " blinker off" and that is working (in the rear). I have the old switch I can plug in to test that theory.

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Rusted

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L.W.( ßill ) Hughes III

The wire in common is green with a white stripe.

Mike

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Mike Romain

the green with white stripe is common between the front and the dash, and not common to the rear signal correct?

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Rusted

That sounds worse than mine, I will take a bad blinker over brake loss any day.

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Rusted

The rears are a light green.

Mike

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Mike Romain

I plugged my old switch into the harness, and things worked. So I replaced the "new" switch again, and so far so good. We will try for that all illusive safety and emissions again in the morning. Mike, thanks for the help with the color coded wires, it did help try to troubleshoot a bad switch.

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Rusted

No. Me and a friend of mine went to the test (he '78 CJ7, me '81 CJ7) last friday. Mine passed, his failed because of oil in the right rear drumbrake. He fixed it and did a retest yesterday, where they tested the brakes and did a quick runaround cause everything was fine friday. He passed. Pulling out of the test station he discovered that NONE of the turnsignals where working.

Thom.

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Thom

The brakes had stopped the Jeep before the pedal hit the floor, so it really wasn't bad at all. Just one of those "Oh Sh*&" moments.

The extortion station was 1/4 mile from my house, so I just drove home in first gear.

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Steve Foley

Went to the shop today, only to find the familiar faces I know not working there any longer. Two older gentlemen were working, one was not limber enough to get his leg up into my jeep. These two guys tag teamed my safety inspection and it took them 15-20 minutes. They checked everything they could think of. They even noticed that my rear license plate was a little loose. Then for the visual part of the emissions test they printed a vacuum diagram to compare it with my engine, and even tugged on hoses to verify that they were properly attached. When he came in and told me that it passed I about fainted. After that it passed the sniffer in the tail pipe emissions test as well. This is better than a birthday!

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Rusted

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