Using LEDs in the front fender side-markers on a Jeep Wrangler TJ

I just replaced my flasher relay with an LED capable relay. The hyper flash is fixed for the front parking/indicators with LED bulbs, but when I turn the parking lights on, the green arrows on my instrument panel turn on steady. Any thoughts?

Next step will be to make the 3 wire patch harness for the side indicator.
 
I just replaced my flasher relay with an LED capable relay. The hyper flash is fixed for the front parking/indicators with LED bulbs, but when I turn the parking lights on, the green arrows on my instrument panel turn on steady. Any thoughts?

Next step will be to make the 3 wire patch harness for the side indicator.

The wire harness as shown in Page 1 worked beautifully for me. Here’s what it looked it:

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I rigged up the 3 wire patch harness temporarily with test leads, diodes, a resistor, and an LED bulb for the side marker and that seems to have solved the issue on the instrument cluster arrows. Once I get the patch harnesses made and installed it looks like it will be good to go.

I think it had to do with the incandescent side marker bulb still in place or possibly trying to ground back through the LED fender marker/turn signal.
 
Finally got to making the in-line pigtail with the diodes and resistor for the parking lights. I add an additional wire coming off of the turn signal side to run to my side mirror LED repeaters. Everything is working as expected.
 
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Finally got to making the in-line pigtail with the diodes and resistor for the parking lights. I add an additional wire coming off of the turn signal side to run to my side mirror LED repeaters. Everything is working as expected.

OUTSTANDING work!!!
 
Finally got to making the in-line pigtail with the diodes and resistor for the parking lights. I add an additional wire coming off of the turn signal side to run to my side mirror LED repeaters. Everything is working as expected.

Looks good. Any details on how you did the side repeater? If I did that, I would do it like a modern vehicle where the front side marker is just a running lamp. Would look nice and clean and then I could leave it incandescent as well which I prefer for a running bulb that does nothing but shine one brightness at night behind a lens.
 
Looks good. Any details on how you did the side repeater? If I did that, I would do it like a modern vehicle where the front side marker is just a running lamp. Would look nice and clean and then I could leave it incandescent as well which I prefer for a running bulb that does nothing but shine one brightness at night behind a lens.

I just posted this. It should help.
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/heated-side-mirrors-and-led-turn-signal-repeaters.76908/
 
Thank you for the helpful information! Also, thank you to the members that helped me work through a brief issue I experienced.

For benefit to those considering, here's what I'm successfully running:
Patch harnesses as detailed by Steel City 06 and pictured by Nightshade
Grounded the patch harnesses to the screws above the head lamps (G102 passenger side, G103 driver side).
Ran patch harnesses parallel with existing harnesses for a clean factory appearance.
LED Turn Signal Relay: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07LC4DMS1?tag=wranglerorg-20
Rear Turn Signal Lamp: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MY4T4BU?tag=wranglerorg-20
Front Turn Signal Lamp: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WD7Z4R7?tag=wranglerorg-20
Side Marker Lamp: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SYYFC61?tag=wranglerorg-20

A word of advice, be sure to test as you build the patch harnesses (if you choose to build them).

Lastly, I have a few extra patch harnesses. DM me for details if your looking for them.
 
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