Topic: Wiring Woe's Any suggestions?????? Blinkers

[corndogs]

74 CB360
All Stock
Disconnected the negative battery terminal
Removed the rear right turn signal, hooked up the new smaller one, it blinked just fine.

Then we did the rear left and hooked up the new one.  Removed the rear brake light and wired up the new one.  Then we removed the front blinkers ( cut wires ) wired up the new smaller ones 

The rears now only come on solid when you hit the turn signal.  Fronts do not come on at all.  Rear brake light works fine.

Thoughts?

[pjlogue]

Check continuity for ground on both front lights (L&R)  I had the same problem (except the rear blinkers were out, fronts were on but didn't blink)  The ground wire that came with my rear blinkers was riveted to a pre painted mount and was isolated from ground.  Your fronts may not be grounded or you have 2 bad front bulbs.

-P.

[corndogs]

thanks, I'll  check it out.

[MoMo]

if you've switched to LED you''ll most likely need to change to an electronic flasher

[corndogs]

No, there are non LED blinkers and tail light.

[Bodi]

Cutting the wires suggests non-stock signals. Do they have dual filaments? How many wires on them? Many single filament units have one wire and ground through the mounting but some have two wires, ground and power. Dual filament ones have either two or three wires, same logic.
Since it worked before with the old signals... either you have miswired the new ones somehow, or they came without bulbs. If not, check the grounding scheme. The stock instrument mount frame or whatever the signals attached to will be grounded with a green wire to the harness as the Stanley originals grounded through their mounting clamps. It's a bad idea to run power through the steering head bearings although it's usually a pretty good connection: the bearings will be slowly destroyed.

[b52bombardier1]

It takes quite a bit of current to actuate the original turn signal relay.  If the bulbs in your new lamps are a smaller wattage than before, they may not draw enough amperage to make the relay function.

Rick

[Bodi]

It's a very low wattage bulb if you can't see any light from it! Not lighting equals bad ground, wiring error, or no bulb installed since the old ones worked before replacement. Once he gets them lighting up, he'll know if a new flasher is needed.
I always use 3-terminal electronic flashers now, and I figured out how to defeat the fast flash on low current "feature" (to indicate a burned out bulb) on one Grote model. I don't like it that 2-terminal electronic ones start OFF - a half second of no light after engaging the turn signal - the 3-terminal ones start ON. Thermal ones all start ON.