[MadHippo]

Need some help here. Piecing together my 67 GTO and having rear tailight issues. I've used my volt meter and determined that im getting juice to the socket when i ground the VM to the body. The socket doesnt appear to have a ground wire as you can see in the pictures. It looks as if the socket itself should be grounding to the light housing. However the light housing appears to be completely plastic. Am I missing a metal ground piece or something else completely?

Thanks much.

Matt

[MadHippo]

Need some help here. Piecing together my 67 GTO and having rear tailight issues. I've used my volt meter and determined that im getting juice to the socket when i ground the VM to the body. The socket doesnt appear to have a ground wire as you can see in the pictures. It looks as if the socket itself should be grounding to the light housing. However the light housing appears to be completely plastic. Am I missing a metal ground piece or something else completely?

Thanks much.

Matt

[MadHippo]

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[wheelspin]

Matt,

My 66 has cast metal tailight housings and the spring clips in your pics that retain the sockets also provide the ground path.

Les

66 GTO Sport Coupe,455/trips,700r/2500stall,12bolt/3.08,1.79/13.01/104.5
68 GP daily driver and 2004 Route 66 Tour participant under restoration
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[Old Goat 67]

The taillight housings are cast metal and should provide the ground path. I have had troubles with my 67 like that before also, intermittant operation. Clean the contacts in the sockets with a pencil eraser, and burnish the lamp contacts & outer housing with scotch brite. A little no oxide grease will keep it for ocurring too often.

[MadHippo]

thanks a lot guys... that was it... I was sure that the housings were plastic... but they really are metal.