TR6 Left direction signal no work

[pdplot]

Fooling around under the dash installing the tach and speedo cables and a vent hose, we apparently dislodged the wire for the drivers side direction signal. The 4-way flasher switch works with or without the key and the right signals front and rear flash perfectly with key on. Both bulbs are fine and there never was any trouble prior to the fiddling around back there so the grounds were fine. The indicator light works fine for the right signal. I have the wiring diagram for the 1971 but it's hard to follow. It looks like the left signal wire connects to a terminal on the back of the flasher unit. Correct? Since my bad back won't allow me to lay across the seat, I'll need help in connecting the wire as it's hard to do reaching behind and under the dash working blind or with a mirror. Those are tiny terminals on the back of the flasher switch.

 

[trrdster2000]

You may have disconnected the wire from the column switch if all work with the emergency flasher. It would just be the one wire, follow the cluster of wires coming off the switch and it will be only a matter of connecting the wire.

Wayne

 

[pdplot]

Sounds logical. I assume there are 2 wires leading from the column switch to the flasher switch. Left and right.

 

[trrdster2000]

PDPilot, I think you are too far out from the switch. There are three wires coming out of the switch, power in and either out. Light green/brown (power in), Green/Red (right side out) and Green/White (left side out). they should be in a cluster and wrapped together about 6 inches past the front steering column bracket coming out from the channel under the steering column.

Wayne

 

[pdplot]

There are only two wires on the flasher switch now- both purple. There should be 3. I took out the driver seat and spent a miserable 45 minutes under the dash and got nowhere except a sore back. There is a cluster like you described but I used a jumper wire to the switch and it did nothing. I don't think it was ever hooked up into anything because it doesn't anywhere near reach where it has to go.The right flasher and the 4-way flasher work fine. I also have 2 bulbs hanging loose that I assume are for the the instrument lights. I don't want to hook up the new vent hose until the electrical issue is sorted out.

 

[trrdster2000]

The purple should be horn. So you are in the right area, just maybe someone hooked things up wrong. When you are feeling better and want to give it another try, (on your bACK), if you would like give me a call and we will see if we can sort it out. PM your number as the wife doesn't think it's a crank call.

Wayne

 

[NutmegCT]

Is it the purple wire? or is it the purple wire?

 

[pdplot]

The left signal worked fine before we messed around under the dash.

 

[Andrew Mace]

There are three wires coming out of the switch, power in and either out. Light green/brown (power in), Green/Red (right side out) and Green/White (left side out).

Wayne, you've got that reversed, green/red is left; green/white is right (note that white and right rhyme, and red and left have similar vowel sounds if not exactly a rhyme, making it an easy way to remember which is which).

 

[trrdster2000]

Thanks Andrew, memory not what it use to be.
Now, if we can just help Pdpilot find the bullet connection. I feel sure that must be it, but I have been wrong, just ask the wife.

Wayne

 

[pdplot]

Wait - I think I did see a bullet connection under there somewhere. I'll check it out. Probably not it though. It's hard to work under the dash when you can't lay down under there. Also - I got out of bed yesterday and passed out - woke up on the floor. I was coming out of a-fib and my heart actually stopped as it sometimes does. Scary stuff.

 

[TR3driver]

Scary indeed! Have you considered a pacemaker?

 

[poolboy]

Should you be driving ?

 

[Andrew Mace]

Scary indeed! Have you considered a pacemaker?

(Sorry, wrong kind of pacemaker! )

 

[DNK]

No left turn signal...
No problem.
Just stay off the NASCAR tracks

 

[pdplot]

Success. It was a bullet connector, green/red. I plugged it in and voila - the left signal now works. The instrument lights are just hanging there under the dash. They work, but I don't even want to fool with them for fear the other lights will pop out - and the brake warning light. The bulb is in the socket but doesn't light. The only other project is the vent hose. My fainting was due to too much toprol, some xanax and dehydration. My heart is structurally fine and I only seem to go into a-fib at 4 am or so in bed. I've never even come close to passing out ever. I'm still playing tennis and golf every week and walking uphill and downhill with no trouble. A-fib is no problem to some who don't even know they have it but very annoying to others like me. I'm thinking of getting an ablation.