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New member - 1985 Van need turn signal lens
#761096 May 19th 2020 12:24 pm
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Hi all. First post here. Helping my daughter with a 1985 B250 Royal she purchased a couple of days ago. She is re-doing the interior and I am making sure the mechanical and electrical parts are ready for a road trip she wants to take in a few weeks.

I have been browsing the forum and already learned a great deal about this van and some of the issues I am dealing with. The latest one to stump me that I have not been able to resolve yet is where to find a replacement driver's-side turn signal. It seems reproduction parts for earlier and newer models or for trucks are available but not for this particular model. I will be most grateful if anyone with a lead to a part would contact me. I daresay I can make a repair if I have to but it will be time consuming and unlikely to look as good as an unbroken original.

This is what I'm dealing with:
RH lens is ok
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LH lens is not ok. Needs help!
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Sorry for the photo links rather than embedded pics. I'm working on it. - EDIT! Sorted!

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Re: New member - 1985 Van need turn signal lens
Slartidbartfast #761099 May 19th 2020 2:33 pm
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I don't have any Dodge stuff, so I can't be much help. However there are quite a few Dodge guys here. If you don't get any responses on this thread, post over in the "Wanted" section of the classifieds and you should get a hit there.


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Re: New member - 1985 Van need turn signal lens
Slartidbartfast #761102 May 19th 2020 4:31 pm
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I would hit up your local junkyard. 80's conversion vans are usually in the yard. I know I have seen a few Dodge vans from the 80's very recently in my local yard.


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Re: New member - 1985 Van need turn signal lens
Slartidbartfast #761110 May 19th 2020 7:19 pm
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Look for 79-85, they are all the same. Sometimes eBay comes up too


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Re: New member - 1985 Van need turn signal lens
Slartidbartfast #761119 May 19th 2020 7:54 pm
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I have scoured eBay without luck - hence my question here. Looks like a trip to the junk yard may be in order. Hope they are open.

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Slartidbartfast #761152 May 20th 2020 7:58 am
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If you have the part numbers, check partsvoice

Re: New member - 1985 Van need turn signal lens
Slartidbartfast #761166 May 20th 2020 1:22 pm
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Thanks for the tip. No luck so far but I have not checked out any local scrapyards yet.

Re: New member - 1985 Van need turn signal lens
Slartidbartfast #761199 May 21st 2020 1:23 am
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Have got a TON of other questions and would like to post a few updates as my daughter and I go through the various updates and improvements we are making. Rather than start a new thread for each technical question, I am going to make a single thread for the project. Probably in this same Dodge General Discussion sub-forum.

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