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XKE Series 2 Turn Signal Lever Stalk Wiring

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Tonight's project was taking apart the stalk and cleaning it up. Question is about the stalk contact points. There are 3 sets:
- Recessed pair on the high inner ring for the headlight flasher
- 3 on a middle ring
- 3 more on a low outer ring

My switch assembly doesn't have any way of activating the 3 on the low outer ring. What are they for?
 
Left turn, right turn, horn and head lite flash. Should have some green wires with red/white tracers along with purple/purple black and blue/white.
Press switch in to activate the horn.
 
My unit only has one contact bar and spring, when it looks like it needs two.

The "mid ring" with GW and GR wires work fine. The wiring diagram shows them then splitting and going to ground through the individual turn lights.

The "outer ring wires", LGU and LGY, cannot be activated as the contact piece and the spring are missing. The diagram differentiates them as R/H Flasher W/L and L/H Flasher W/L, which are connected to post "P" on the flasher unit. What do they do?
 
The "outter wires" are for sending current to the indicater lites on the fascia. The green arrows. The wires terminate at the "P" post on the flasher unit.
 
OK, so W/L is warning light. Seems like overkill to have a completely separate set of contacts just for the dash lights. In the short term, I will run the dash lights off the "mid ring" circuit. When I get a chance I will take a trip to Radio Shack to make up my own "outer" contact and spring.
 
Be careful with this...sometimes a burnt bulb on the dash lamp will make the directional lamp not operate. Check you flash unit as they are sometimes marked different ie P L X or P L B if I remember? Yes, W/L is for flasher warning lamp.
 
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