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Old Sep 7, 2007 | 12:42 AM
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I have a 60, and last week I took the lights off, put in gaskets, rechromed, etc. Just put those things back together and now I have no lights. Neither side. Any suggestions. This fixing one small problem only to cause a bigger one is starting to kill me.

Oh yes. earlier this week I asked about exhaust tips. Picked the car up this afternoon and the exhaust is flush with the bumper and I was just as happy as I could be until this. A two inch pipe would not go through the hole so we had to go down to 1 7/8"
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Old Sep 7, 2007 | 01:34 AM
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Sounds like the whole lamp assembly was removed. Did you re-attach the black ground wire? There should be a ground attached, similar to a washer to nut / stud per lamp housing.
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Yep, grounded both to the stud that attaches to the taillight housing.
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Old Sep 7, 2007 | 09:06 AM
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this may sound like a dumb question, but are you sure you placed the gasget between the lense and the socket, and not between the socket and the housing? just a thought.
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No, the gasket is right, but even with the lenses off, it still has no taillights.
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On my 62, which has a different tail-light design, I didn't have any tail lights after rechroming everything - because the socket assembly was not touching the tail-light housing. Since the ground wire was connected to the housing, and the socket was not touching the housing (they had pushed into the lens a bit) the bulb was getting no ground
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Ok thats a thought. I guess it could happen on both sides of the car too. I'll check that later when I get off work.
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