On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:11:18 -0800 (PST), Larry Fishel
wrote:

Looking at how the turn signal is situated, is there any chance that
the two posts might have touched the guard rail?

Not the guard rail. They and the socket were probably still within
the reflector of the turn signal or in empty space behind it.
(Couldn't see it before the assembly was removed) The socket used a
bayonet mount into the relector, and the collar of the reflector was
broken off for most of its circumference and back a quarter of an inch
opposite where it was still attached. He taped the socket to get it
to stay in place.

For contacts, the bulb had two loops of thin wire, race-track shaped
minus one end, and folded back against the glass. The whole base was
intact. When I pulled the bulb out by the center glass post and the
two little metal posts, the socket was in good shape. .

Are there any pieces
of metal (or plated plastic) trim missing?

No. The body was scuffed and the heavy plastic holding the light
assembly was cracked in several locations, but only one crack went all
the way through to detach from the rest of it. .


More importantly, the turn signal wasn't on the same fuse as the tail
lights, since replacing the bub made the turn signal work, but the
tail lights still didn't work until their fuse was replaced.