Rear tail light not working right

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wedge775

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I tried to hard wire a set of LED tails to my truck with no success. Wired the OEM plugs back up, and now when I hit my left turn signal all my rear lights (brake, license, both signals) flash with the left turn signal. It does this only when the lights are off, I can turn the parking lights on and they work normally. Switched the left and right out and it still does the same. All fuses are good, and recheck all the wiring twice to make sure it was all hooked up right. Anyone got any ideas.
 
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is there any chance you may have bured the line further down, and possibly have wires connecting thorugh a metal connection somewhere down the line?

I've seen this once before with a 280 z, we were restoring. Drove me nuts, but when I went to replace the wires from the source back i founf the fray and it was about 4 inches from visiblity when the lights were pulled out. the little metal peice that was behind the cut outs. i ran some black tape over it and it zixed the problem.
 
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wedge775

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is there any chance you may have bured the line further down, and possibly have wires connecting thorugh a metal connection somewhere down the line?

I've seen this once before with a 280 z, we were restoring. Drove me nuts, but when I went to replace the wires from the source back i founf the fray and it was about 4 inches from visiblity when the lights were pulled out. the little metal peice that was behind the cut outs. i ran some black tape over it and it zixed the problem.

I think thats what it is, even though i didn't pull or tug on the wires at all. But maybe just that little bit of moment could be cause a fray on the driver side. Even when the tail light is not plugged up it will hyperflash all the lights in the rear. Gonna try running some new wires this weekend. Anyone esle got any suggestions???
 
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