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Flasher trouble shooting - pls help

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I just replaced the rubber around my front flashers. Now, when I turn on the signal, the light stays on. It did blink before. I've switched the two shorter wires to the bulb with no change. This is the older style push through the hole type connector.

Also, since im asking. The right signal never worked since I purchased the car. I hear no click in the b810 relay when I switch to the right. How can I troubleshoot this?

Thanks!!
 
If the only thing you did was to change rubber gasket at the fender, most probably just a jiggle making a corrosion vulnerable connection no longer working. Undo all connections, clean, and if you have volt/ohm meter confirm metal of light socket is connected to chassis ground. As far as bulb staying on, make sure have correct bulb, maybe switch driver side with passenger side and if see if problem follows bulb or stays lateralized. If "trafficator" is that thing within the steering wheel, from posts and preinternet various articles,tht should be last thing you check since it can be a real can of worms to get apart and back together. On my car, bulbs do as they should but the little lever on steering wheel for turning on turn signals for R turn does not come back to center, have to do it manually. In twenty five years owned car seems lot of effort of getting into the steering wheel/column assembly to fix a trivial problem.
Jay, '65 3000
 
I appreciate your frustration.

First, I assume your car is a non-BJ8 Phase 2 since you indicated that the rubber light gasket is the wire push through. Although cleaning connections is a very good thing to do, since the signals were working properly prior to your gasket installation, I would stick to looking for your problem at the site of your alteration.

Does the light get brighter when the brakes are applied or the signal is activated? What happens when the signal is activated with the parking lights on? Recheck your wiring connections for correctness as I but you simply switched the brake/signal with the parking leads.

The only other situation that comes to mind when this condition has appeared was as the result of a bad socket. The socket has 2 spring-loaded contacts held in place by a brittle plastic-like insulator. If you are getting parking lights and not brake or signal lights, you may have a defective socket that is only making one contact.

Hope this helps,
Ray (64BJ8P1)
 
I drove it around yesterday and after a bit, the signal started working. Given that, I suspect why was correct, there was corrosion on the terminals. Now it works fine. Thank you all for your inputs.

Now, I just need to figure out why the right turn signal isn't working.
 
are front and rear not working if only 1 is working i suggest to just change the bulb and check the ground
 
The shop manual has a pretty good procedure for checking the lights. Assuming the connections are tight at the double ended connections coming out of the steering column in front of the car, at the relay box, driver side front, with a VM in hand check the right and left contacts (see manual). If you're getting voltage at the box then you have to move to the lights themselves. Sounds much harder than it really is.
 
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