I usually don't repost the same comment at an ongoing post. For instance, the oilcannig roof. Why bother? I'll help someone with their car, but I'm not going to beg to work on it. After all, I have to avoid the neighbors because it didn't take them long to figure things out.
As for possible ground issue, the tail sockets groun to the housing via the metal reatiner clips. I'm prety good at finding ways to ensure accurate go/no-go verification during troubleshooting.
The problem with the tailights is that it's next to impossible to know for sure that a partucular socket is grounded; also, if one socket isn't grounding, it translates into all kinds of funky crap through the others. That means that if you pull one from the housing, all bets are off as for bulb operation.
When I went through mine, I gave up with grounding them in the housing. What I did was pull all sockets, used scrap wire to ground the sockets. And veified continuety rather than think it was grounding.
As for flasher operation, it's designed for the flashers to cease when applying the brakes, and it's part of the failsafe design that is often incorporated in design.
After all, if the flashers didn't cease when braking, how would the people you are warning know that you are stopping unless it is made clear that you are stopping?
It's just like people around here trying to fix something. How the heck do you know for sure that something is happening you are just assuming, not knowing?
