Front Park light earth problem

[claytonsmechanic]

Hi all, brand new to the site. I have a problem with my VX front park lights not working. I have the whole front end off for other reasons, and have the whole front left headlight assembly removed. The fuses are fine, I am getting power to the light bulb, new bulbs installed, but lights not working. Not exactly sure how long they've been out for. I thought it must be an earth problem, because my power indicator light was showing power to the bulb but the light was not on. Being the auto-electrician (NOT) I thought about trying to run another earth for the light to see if that was the problem. Which I did (wire to touching the bulb and earthed to the chassis) with the power to the assembly disconnected because I was getting sparks. But get this, when I connect the power wire to the headlight assembly, both front parkers turn on, even though the lights are not turned on. When I get some time, I will be cleaning all the terminals, but was wondering if anyone might be able to enlighten me as to what is causing this problem. Thanks

 

[moose man]

Can you rewrite that in more than one paragraph? It's a bit difficult to understand, possibly the reason you haven't received a reply yet.

How did you know which terminal the earth was? You need to learn to use a multimeter to check earths using a voltage drop test. test lights are no good for this.

 

[Ice101]

As moose man said, smaller paragraphs are good. And the best way to carry out testing is definitely using a multimeter, you can pick them up pretty cheap and they're handy for most things electrical.