Left blinker not working when headlights are on.

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8GMC6

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Hello all! I recently purchased a 86 GMC K2500 to work on and learn more about vehicles. With that being said I really don’t know much about how to fix electrical issues. Here is my problem…
My blinkers work normally during the day but once I turn on my headlights my left blinker doesn’t work and my right blinker works very slowly.
 

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Could be voltage or lack thereof, grounds or flasher itself.
 

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I Had the same problem and the front bulbs fixed it. Good luck
 

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Make sure someone didn't put single filament bulbs into dual element sockets.
 

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It actually ended up being a slightly bad ground
 

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did you add some blinker fluid
 

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If you're in the rust belt, this would be common on my 72's and I finally soldered a ground wire onto the socket itself and ground that wire on all my signals and have not had a problem since. HTH.
 

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