Bad Ground on 1 parking light

[loubob]

Installed Bratton's new headlight reflectors.
Now parking light on driver's side doesn't work.
If I touch inside of parking light socket to headlight shell it lights up.
Both the pass side lights work along w/driver side headlight.
What did/didn't I do correctly????????????

Loubob

[jax55]

You have lost ground to that socket, I do not think the reflector is the ground for the lights so you need to check the wiring for that socket and fix that.

[KGBnut]

I had a similar problem, so I ran an extra ground wire. I long ago ran extra grounds into my headlights, but I had to figure our how to connect them to the reflectors. I finally just stripped back about 3/4 inch, laid it alongside the parking light socket, and snugged it down tight with a zip-tie. I haven't had a problem since.

Ken

[Tom Wesenberg]

The light sockets should ground through the reflector and focus screw and spring, as well as where it touches the shell.

[loubob]

I will check the grounding situation out today.
Thanks

[Al 29Tudor]

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Since there are so many surfaces in the path to ground, before the lights find ground, I soldered a ground wire to each socket, joined them in the headlight bucket and ran a new ground wire directly to the chassis.