tail light help please

the tail light buckets ground to the bumper when you bolt them in. i grounded all my tail light sockets individually when i had silly issues with the rear lights. they work fine now and are brighter then before.


all my stuff worked fine until you turned the lights on. then the one rear turn/brake light wouldn't work. replaced the bulb and it looked fine because the head lights weren't on.. then one of the next nights out someone told me i had a bulb out. only then did i look into it a little further and realized they worked fine until the headlights came on.. drove me nuts for a bit.. the problem ended up being that when i rewired the car we cleaned and blasted all the light sockets in the car and rebuilt them.. cleaning out the rust must have loosened up the tail light sockets in the tail light housing and made for a poor ground...

i soldiered a wire connector to each (all 4) light sockets then ran a wire from that connector to where the light housing bolts tot he bumper.. can't see it unless you know its there and like i said i have no more issues with the tail lights and they are brighter then ever. its usually something simple...