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Turn Signal Help
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Turn Signal Help
Can someone tell me where the purple wire that feeds the blinkers in the steering column gets its 12v from? All I need to to do is get 12v to that purple wire and my blinkers will work.. I jumped 12v to it in the steering column and they started working.. They havent worked since I bought the car..
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My 69 wiring diagram shows the only purple wire to the connector goes straight to the flasher- it's pink on the other side of the flasher and right to the fuse block from there.
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There has to be something in the middle then because the purple wire on the flasher is #14ga and the purple wire on the end of the steering column connector is like #18ga.. I also tried jumping 12v right to the purple wire on the flasher and I'm still not getting 12v at the column.
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The Doc Rebuild colored wiring diagram I have for my 71' shows a pink wire coming from the fuse box (Turn signal fuse) going TO the flasher and the Purple wire coming FROM the flasher to the turn signal connector on the steering column. There is also a 2nd pink wire (18 gauge) on the flasher connector that goes to the backup light switch.
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You put 12 volts to the purple at the steering column ? You mean at the harmonica connector ? And they started to flash ? Thats odd because thats the wrong side of the flasher to make it flash. Putting 12 v to the purple should have just made them light up but not flash. It should be interesting to see how that alarm is wired.
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You put 12 volts to the purple at the steering column ? You mean at the harmonica connector ? And they started to flash ? Thats odd because thats the wrong side of the flasher to make it flash. Putting 12 v to the purple should have just made them light up but not flash. It should be interesting to see how that alarm is wired.
Actually I found 12v on the brown wire in the column so I jumped over to the purple wire to see if the blinker woud light up and then it started flashing. What really freaked me out is that I didnt even have the B-flasher module plugged in
Then I realized the brown wire is the 12v for the E-flashers so the E-flashers are what made the blinker flash.. Are you confused yet Anyways I did figure it out.. The purple wire was cut just past the past B-flasher module and then spliced into an alarm system, which didnt work anyways so I cut it back out and spliced it back in where it goes and I now have a perfectly working bilnker system
I cant believe I have ALL the lights working perfectly now when none of them worked when I bought it
Last edited by Fishndude; Jun 10, 2009 at 09:08 PM.
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Good job , glad you got it working. Wiring can be fun especially when it works when your done.
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