Rewiring turn signals

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  1. ak_cowboy

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    Dang, oh well.

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    Damn brother, that is some great technical information. I wish I knew that earlier, I would have wired up my side marker indicators as turn signals.
     
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    Did you rewire them?
    I got my dad set of 3157 LED bulbs for his brake/turn signals on his ram
    I put them in and thy were being weird, I noticed the prongs/wires at the base of the bulb were opposite of the incandescent bulbs I took out
    I straightened them out and re-folded them back over opposite why they were and they worked fine

    Sounds like it would fix your problem to me
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    I haven't cut any wires yet. How do you go about switching the wires on the bulbs? Can you just pull off the wire on the base and move it around?
     
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    I just wired in resistors on mine :3
     
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    What bulb number are your bulbs? I'm not sure if his method will work since I don't think you have 3157s

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    I've got 3157s. [​IMG][​IMG]

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    Oh okay, in the first pictures you posted it must have just been what plugs into the base of the bulb socket. Silly me.

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    I see that bulb has 3 prongs coming off of it. You can't spin it 180° and plug it in? Wouldn't that have the same effect as switching the two outside wires on the writing harness?

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    Bend these over to opposite sides
     

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