Jason Posted March 28, 2011 Posted March 28, 2011 I have aquired some dodgy indicators over the winter, they flash twice rapidly and thats it. I was wondering if there was a sensible order in which to fault find? Bearing in mind that i am crap with car electrics!
Richard B Posted March 28, 2011 Posted March 28, 2011 Which, front, back, sides, dash? :-/It's a very complicated circuit (for something that is normally simple). ::)Check to see if the front and back are still working when the side/dash ones have stopped.Quite often this is a problem with the B post tell tales as the dash ones work with them, how do I know :B
Steve Cureton Posted March 29, 2011 Posted March 29, 2011 When I start getting these problems I find the best cure is to fit an earth wire between the body of the offending item and a point on the chassis (or anywhere that isn't hinged etc).
Jason Posted April 2, 2011 Author Posted April 2, 2011 Well I think I have traced the fault to the flasher unit connections, gave them a clear and a tweak and it all seems to work - however, the flasher unit does got very hot. Now I know it's supposed to get warm as it works with heat but this was too hot to touch - is that normal?
AlanChatterton Posted April 3, 2011 Posted April 3, 2011 Is it still the original old lucas flasher unit?........ if so, bin it.Buy a modern "solid state" flasher unit from any decent auto factors, and you get rock steady flashers at a sensible rate.Only mod you have to do is to add an earth to it, as it will have 3 pins rather than the 2 you have now.
Jason Posted April 5, 2011 Author Posted April 5, 2011 It's got a three pin unit in it now and if I drop a modern flasher unit in, all I get is the C post flashers!
thescrapman Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 I wonder if the modern flasher unit can't cope with the "interesting" method of implementing indicators on a Mk1.It still has me confused.:-(Colin
mikew Posted April 5, 2011 Posted April 5, 2011 Jason wrote:It's got a three pin unit in it now and if I drop a modern flasher unit in, all I get is the C post flashers!Thats because the old 3 pin has 1 common and 2 outputs, i.e. it flashes main indicators, gets too hot, bimetalic strip flips over and then flashes the pillar repeaters, cools off, then snaps back, flashes main repeaters etc etc. ( its almost a change over switch) if you want to use modern flasher units, joint the 2 non common wires together i.e. not the positive feed, then main flashers and repeaters flash together not out of phase with each othermodern flasher units have positive, earth and output.mike
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