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Dcalebaugh
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I as many others out there had the dreaded no cluster lights and turn signal and high beam indicator lights on. I tried the missing ground fix by attaching an additional ground to the ground wire at the cluster connector as suggested by others with no luck. I was not thrilled at the thought of pulling out the cluster and looking for a solder joint that was bad. Heres what I did. I knew from my experience as an electrician that the problem was indeed a bad ground, that explained the turn indicator lights being on (back feed), so all I needed was a ground attached somewhere along the ground path. All I did was pull one of the lamps out of the cluster, using a 12volt lamp with test leads I attached one lead to a ground source and probed both holes in the socket to determine which was the hot side. When I probed the right one the lamp lit, therefore the other was the ground. I took a solid copper wire and pushed it into the space in the plasic socket between the hole for the lamp and the copper bar that makes contact in the cluster. The wire fit snug, and even better once I put the bulb back in. I replaced the heat sink cover which also helped hold the wire in place. I then ran the wire to a ground point on the car and bingo, we have lights. The dimming feature still works as well. I used bare copper wire as halogens do get warm and insulated wire might smolder abit. If you try this do so at your own risk. It has worked for me and was really simple. I just wasn't that confident of finding the problem if I took it apart and oh yeah I was looking for the easy fix.
