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Old Oct 7, 2016 | 06:08 PM
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Evening everyone I'm hoping you can help with this head scratcher. I have a 2005 Sportster 883 Custom with about 13.5K miles on it. A few days ago after riding I realized my back left blinker would signal when the button was pressed but, as it is one of those signal/brake/running light its not doing the other two. I checked to make sure the connections under the fender were tight, it wasn't grounding out, and the fuses were all set before digging a little deeper. I thought it was the circuit board so got another one of those but, same problem. What has me confused is I thought for giggles to swap the left and right rear signals on the circuit board and the left one started to work while the right had the same problem! To me that makes it so that the wiring seems alright but, I am far from an expert. Thank yall for the help in advance.
 
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Old Oct 7, 2016 | 08:38 PM
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Possible the run brake blinker module is bad. That would be my guess
 
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Old Oct 7, 2016 | 09:26 PM
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To make this clear the right was working ok until you switched them correct?
 
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The right one still works. I just swapped them just to see if it was bad wiring once I saw the left one lit up I switched them back.
 
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