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68 Spridget - Turn Signal Wiring Colors

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Jim_Gruber

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I managed to misplace my wiring diagram for Bugsy my '68 Sprite. Can anyone give me wire colors for LF and RF Turn signals. I'm thinking Green is positive and black is negative for LF and RF Signals. Only getting like 3 volts on one side and 6 on hte other. Something isn't right. Things area flashing but I may have issues upstream. For a while I was getting both flashing when LF signal was turned on. Weird. All of this stuff worked before I took it apart for painting and ground apear to be good all the way back to the battery and to the frame. So much for driving tomorrow, haven't even started on mounting headlights.
 
Jim, first off, check and recheck ground - the new paint may have messed it up.

Black is always ground - according to the diagram, each is grounded seperately

LF is Green/ Red

RF is Green/ White

On the hazard switch, there will be green in from the fusebox, green/red & green/white out to signals and light green to the hazard flasher unit. There will also be a green out to the signal flasher unit (Likely under the passenger side dash) on the other side of this flasher unit is light green to signals.

So, to my mind, most likely culprits are

1. grounds not grounding well because of paint
2. green at fusebox

good luck!
 
Thanks JP. Grounds are all good, zero resistance all the way back to negative battery terminal. Separate wiring for all ground back to a connector on the side of the RF Fender. I'm going back to first joint where front harness connects and see what voltages I can find there. Issue likely is right there or where the signal light splits to run to the front and back signal lamps. Probably something has turned green over the winter. Rear signals are fine, bright, and working properly. I added all new wiring including a quick disconnect for the BE Bonnet. Those joints were all soldered and should be good to go. It's interesting that all worked prior to the front harness being pulled out and painted several weeks ago. More detective work this evening with the VOM is in order. Thanks again.
 
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