Flasher / turn signal
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Flasher / turn signal
Flasher turn signal
I have a 1987, basically stock. The turn signals seem burdened. Sometimes they work, but often I just get a solid light. Both the right and the left are the same. All bulbs light. It seems to be really bad in the cold, but as the car warms up the flasher seems to work. The frequency is slow and sometimes it flashes for a while and goes solid. Sometimes it is solid and starts to flash too. Sometimes I get nothing and then it lights and flashes. It seems to work, but very poorly. I guess I am thinking if it was the flasher, it would just die and not fight, but what else could it be?
I am thinking flasher can. Where is the flasher can and any other ideas? (like electronic upgrade or heavy duty ?) Any other ideas???
I have a 1987, basically stock. The turn signals seem burdened. Sometimes they work, but often I just get a solid light. Both the right and the left are the same. All bulbs light. It seems to be really bad in the cold, but as the car warms up the flasher seems to work. The frequency is slow and sometimes it flashes for a while and goes solid. Sometimes it is solid and starts to flash too. Sometimes I get nothing and then it lights and flashes. It seems to work, but very poorly. I guess I am thinking if it was the flasher, it would just die and not fight, but what else could it be?
I am thinking flasher can. Where is the flasher can and any other ideas? (like electronic upgrade or heavy duty ?) Any other ideas???
Melting Slicks
Joined: Jun 1999
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From: Ashland Alabama
I switched to an electronic flasher on mine and works great. The old flash was working fine though.
I have had flashers go out on cars and also start going out with the symptoms your describing. I got my electronic flasher from corvettemods I think but all the major vendors on here carry them. I would recommend the electronic one since they are designed to work with led lights in case you want to switch out some of your turn signal bulbs later to led you will already have the conversion done.
The flasher is under the dash in the passenger side foot well area close to the center of the car. Pretty far up in there so not easy to get to.
I have had flashers go out on cars and also start going out with the symptoms your describing. I got my electronic flasher from corvettemods I think but all the major vendors on here carry them. I would recommend the electronic one since they are designed to work with led lights in case you want to switch out some of your turn signal bulbs later to led you will already have the conversion done.
The flasher is under the dash in the passenger side foot well area close to the center of the car. Pretty far up in there so not easy to get to.
Le Mans Master
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From: Clifton Park, NY ............Clearwater, FL ... 85 Original Owner
Flasher turn signal
I have a 1987, basically stock. The turn signals seem burdened. Sometimes they work, but often I just get a solid light. Both the right and the left are the same. All bulbs light. It seems to be really bad in the cold, but as the car warms up the flasher seems to work. The frequency is slow and sometimes it flashes for a while and goes solid. Sometimes it is solid and starts to flash too. Sometimes I get nothing and then it lights and flashes. It seems to work, but very poorly. I guess I am thinking if it was the flasher, it would just die and not fight, but what else could it be?
I am thinking flasher can. Where is the flasher can and any other ideas? (like electronic upgrade or heavy duty ?) Any other ideas???
I have a 1987, basically stock. The turn signals seem burdened. Sometimes they work, but often I just get a solid light. Both the right and the left are the same. All bulbs light. It seems to be really bad in the cold, but as the car warms up the flasher seems to work. The frequency is slow and sometimes it flashes for a while and goes solid. Sometimes it is solid and starts to flash too. Sometimes I get nothing and then it lights and flashes. It seems to work, but very poorly. I guess I am thinking if it was the flasher, it would just die and not fight, but what else could it be?
I am thinking flasher can. Where is the flasher can and any other ideas? (like electronic upgrade or heavy duty ?) Any other ideas???
Oil Producer
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on my 85, hazards did work. right rear turn signal did not.
we replaced the flasher relay, which was behind the bread box, and its fixed. for some reason, the flasher relay was much louder click click...click click....click click...than the oem was.
we replaced the flasher relay, which was behind the bread box, and its fixed. for some reason, the flasher relay was much louder click click...click click....click click...than the oem was.
Last edited by VikingTrad3r; Nov 11, 2015 at 11:09 AM.
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I have found
I did find the flasher to the left of the ECM. It was not visible from the bottom. The dash pad does come out, 5 screws on the lower lip, 3 above the instrument cluster and 2 more above the center vents plus the 2 on the defroster vent, you pull up and out and the dash is removed. The flasher was easy to see from the top, but the wires are not long enough to pull it out from the top. I could force it down through the bottom.
Really strange to put a replaceable part in a place this inaccessible
Really strange to put a replaceable part in a place this inaccessible
Racer
Joined: Jun 2012
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From: Colorado Springs Colorado
I had my interior disassembled to do the repair on the lcd cluster and working on the radio, dash was off and saw the two flashers and decided to install electronic ones even the original flashers were working. A little bit of preventive medicine.
