Inspecting Marker Lights

So before you take off on a trip, you wanna do a pre delivery inspection, checking all the marker lights, turn signals, everything as well as a variety of other things in here. During our inspection of the lighting system of this, we found this marker light here was not working. We know we got power back here because our back marker lights, our front amber ones are working and, and it's very important to have this on, especially at night. You're seeing more of the dot Officers are, are looking for this stuff and identifying and it's a safety issue too. You got amber is always gonna be up in the front, red's gonna be in the back. So when you're coming down the road, they can kinda tell where you're at. So we're gonna take this lens off and see what's going on in here. Hopefully, it's just the ball, but this one's got quite a bit of silicone around it and it's gonna be a little bit of a chance. So we're gonna cut that off first. They have really gone wild on that stuff. Here we go, just get it popped off so we can see we move it around. Well, there we go. Look at that. So that's telling me that that is a bad connection because I have a good bulb here. So I doubt it's just the bulb a little bit of an angle. Look at that. It is just a bald. So that's telling me in here, these filaments probably have just a loose up enough connection. And, you know, that's the thing about rvs is that you're getting a lot of road vibration. And so some of the stuff that normally would last quite a while and it's very, fairly durable. Um, you know, it doesn't take much for just a little bit like you can see here for it to not work. We're gonna just try bending these out a little bit. It does look like that one's got a little bit of a kink into it. So if I straighten that out somewhat, bring it out, do the same with this one. And since it lit up in the inside, I don't think it's an inside filament. Here we go. So that was pretty easy there. Now, if that wouldn't have worked and a new bulb didn't work in it, then we got a different situation which we see a lot of times in here is that we either have a bad socket or we have a wire kinked inside. And so what we could do with that one is we could take in, use a multi meter which is like this, hook it to the DC side and we could pretty much use a multi meter to see if we have power coming in here. Now, a lot of times what's going to happen with something like this is that we have wires that run underneath. And this is fairly common with trailers that tail lights and variety of things you look underneath, you'll see wires that are just strung under. Sometimes they're zip tide. Sometimes they're protected with that automotive conduit, the ribbed plastic, which is great, but too often I see him just hanging down there and you got road debris and all that kind of stuff that could just clip that wire. So, you know, if this socket was, was not working, I would look at the wires down there, you know, basically go in and, and check for, um, power coming to this. If there's no power, then I know it's a wire somewhere because I have the other ones that are working up here. So, in this case, it was easy. We just pulling that filament out a little bit, getting a better connection. This would also be a good time, in my opinion to spray this with a little bit of contact spray, the electrical contact spray because that's gonna clean that up really well. Normally you don't have to do that, um, in something like this because it's covered. But the last thing then is we're gonna take and put our cover back on it and then we're gonna clean up some of this silicone. It's really gotten pretty hard. You can kind of see how it flakes up here. So we're gonna clean that off, put our cover back on and run a, a new cap seal. It's called, or a new bead of silicone around that just to make sure we don't get any moisture in and start to go into our side wall.