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Old Nov 10, 2023 | 03:50 PM
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This was laying on the floor of my 79 L82 and I thought someone might know the answers.

Was near hazard flasher on fuse block
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Long shot guess here. It looks like a capacitor and it was perhaps across the terminals of the flasher unit to alter the timing of the flasher? That or... its part of the hyper drive and without it you wont make the jump to hyper space.


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It is a capacitor. Its across the flasher to prevent the popping noise feedback into the radio. Thread below
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...l-flasher.html


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Originally Posted by ZIOGEO
Long shot guess here. It looks like a capacitor and it was perhaps across the terminals of the flasher unit to alter the timing of the flasher? That or... its part of the hyper drive and without it you wont make the jump to hyper space.


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It is a capacitor. Its across the flasher to prevent the popping noise feedback into the radio. Thread below
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...l-flasher.html
that makes sense and having said that, after pulling the relay I was checking the power and there is none at the terminal but the turn signals work but when I pull the hazards they don’t work. Any ideas? Where does the capacitor plug into

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The capacitor just piggybacked with the terminals of the flasher to help prevent the arc from when the contacts closed.

Something like this





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Originally Posted by Steve Kistler
that makes sense and having said that, after pulling the relay I was checking the power and there is none at the terminal but the turn signals work but when I pull the hazards they don’t work. Any ideas? Where does the capacitor plug into
I found a PDF of the wiring diagram for this car and as it happens, has 3 flashers. one for hazard, one for directional and one for anti-theft. So the hazard flasher is in the fuse block where the other 2 are somewhere else in the car.
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For 79 there should be 2 on the fuse block, upper left and lower right. Alarm should be under the center console somewhere I believe
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Originally Posted by Steve Kistler
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