When my turn signals quit working, I fixed them by dismantling the switch and cleaning up the contact,as I've done before, but strangely the right rear signal now acts like the fronts by staying on like fronts as a running light. It works as a turn signal also. If I could get the left one to do that, I would have rear running lights like the front. I did nothing except clean up the contacts, did try a switch of the rear bulbs, the bulb on the rear, as you know, the rear turns are single post bulbs. I am confused, but man, I wish they both worked as running lights. It comes on when the ignition is turned on, just like the head light, tail light and front turns. ??? I'm a little confused. Hoser
Solved by Ronw. over on the voai board. Thanks, all for your help. Hoser
"Do you have a special bulb in the right front signal, wink. What you described is a symptom of using a 1156 single filament bulb in the front signal. The single contact on the bottom of the 1156 stem is wide enough that it spans the 2 contacts in the 1157 socket, the hi and the low contacts in the front socket. Since the 2 contacts in the 1157 socket are physically bridged, either the electricity to the hi-filament (contact) or electricity to the low filament (contact) will light up an 1156 bulb."
"When you're not signaling, the 1156 bulb in the front signal lights up because it receives electricity from the low filament contact (running light, constant ON) in the front's 1157 socket. This sends electricity to the bulb in the rear signal, corresponding side and you have a rear running light on that rear signal. The reason for this is that the hi-filaments in the front signal and rear signal are hard wired to each other, corresponding side. Again, the 1156 bulb's wider or oval contact is bridging the hi and low contacts back at the front 1157 socket. So whatever electricity that's on the low-filament contact, in the front signal socket, that electricity travels across the bridge to the hi-filament contact. From there the same electricity travels to the rear turn signal .... the front signal's and the rear signal's hi-filaments being hard-wired to each other. The obvious problem with this is that the front running light and the rear running light are lit up (Constant ON) on the 1156's hi-filament. (A 1156 bulb has only a single filament inside its glass envelop and that single filament is a hi-filament.) A hi-filament generates too much heat to be Constant ON."
