Turn Signal Gremlins

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Yesterday I noticed right rear turn signal not working. Tapping/twisting the stalk got it to flash briefly. Last night because I was at Walmart anyway, I picked up 4 bulbs. They didn’t have the 23W ones my manual calls for, so I got the 21W bulbs they had on the shelf (actually in a locked case I had to bother someone to help me get). But I digress.

This morning, on taking things apart to find the source or the intermittent signal, I found the broken connector circled in the first pic. It being Labor Day and the local hardware store closed, my repair solutions were limited. I found a copper battery lug in my stash of terminals that some quick hammering and some dremel work transformed into just what I needed.

I was pretty proud of myself for this repair, got everything re-wired back up. Test. Right rear signal works great, but now the F#@$&*g Left Rear signal doesn’t. I swapped bulbs, new ones, old ones. Nothing. When I flick the turn signal left, the dash light and front left come on solid and the left rear does not light.

So what could I have done while fixing the wiring in the right rear stalk to make the left rear stop working?

I’m going for a ride. Too nice a day to waste. No one needs to know where I’m going anyway.

 

[Rich82GS750TZ]

I think I got it. I think I pulled the +wire to the left stalk as I was working under the fender. Working on it now.

 

[rphillips]

Iu's just going to ask if you had slightly tugged on any other wires while fix'in the first one, makes good sense. Hope it's fixed.

 

[Rich82GS750TZ]

All good. Sometimes you just have to B!itch about something out loud (or on an Internet forum) to somebody besides your wife (she is not sympathetic at all).

NOW I’m going for a ride. Thanks for reading.

 

[Brendan W]

This true. Very often the act of writing down a problem causes a solution to appear

 

[Guest]

That is a nice part that you made.

 

[Brendan W]

That is a nice part that you made.

Wait for some future owner to come on here in fifty years looking for a part number

 

[Rich82GS750TZ]

That is a nice part that you made.

Thanks

Wait for some future owner to come on here in fifty years looking for a part number

Maybe I should patent it and go into production.

 

[Redman]

Resourceful and imaginative.

 

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Resourceful and imaginative.

Don't know about all that. But I am thinking about changing my entry in the Pic-of-the-Week thread as this repair fits the "not quite stock" theme this week.

https://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?250413-Pic-of-the-week-game/page210