John,
Try the hazards to ops check the bulbs & sockets. You may find you have a
bad rear socket - they're notorious for making a poor connection where the
two dissimilar metal rings are basically pressed together.
I have the same dissimilar flash rate situation as Dick, so no big deal.
Keep the faith.
Jeff
'74 1/2 (CF27006U)
----- Original Message -----
From: "John VanNorman" <jvannorman@wowway.com>
To: "6pack" <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 8:35 AM
Subject: Turn signal flasher questions
> Another round of questions for the group.
>
> As part of replacing the steering wheel bushings this weekend, we had to
> disconnect the turn signal control. After
> hooking it back up (and double checking the connections using Dan Master's
> book -- God bless you Dan!) we found that
> although the driver's side signals were flashing, the passenger side turn
> signals weren't (neither the front nor the
> rear signals). So reading through Dan's materials, I think it is one of
> the following problems: (1) a bad connection
> that is reducing the amount of current running through the wires for the
> passenger side signal - i.e., there isn't
> enough juice getting through to cause the flasher to flash, (2) a corroded
> bulb connection or bad bulb, or (3) a bad
> flasher.
>
> So to help us figure out what it really is, I have some questions. First,
> is it possible for a flasher to go bad so
> that the signals on one side of the car still work but the ones on the
> other side don't? As a side note, I noticed
> that when we first tried them out, the "working" driver's side signals
> flashed at a very, very slow rate at first - so
> slow that at first we thought they weren't flashing either. But after
> that they went back to normal. Second, could
> the fact that the battery may be low on juice impact just one side? And
> third, if there is corrosion or a bad bulb on
> one signal, does that automatically cause a problem for the other signal
> on that same side of the car?
>
> John V.
> 1974 1/2
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