I have a problem and I guess it's been an issue since the beginning. My left blinker works fine like normal on-off on-off but my right blinker goes on.....................................off on..............................off and nobody knows Y. My grandfather could never figure it out either and he took the whole electrical system out and checked it all because it was so bothersome and he couldn't find the problem. So what I guess I'll have to do if I can't figure it out is just replace the whole electrical system. But before I do does anybody have any ideas?
This probably won't work for you since the other one is ok, however I have run across a similar prob in my mav Every time the car is charging low, or not charging enough, the blinker blinks real slow. Often for me it is an indicator that my alternator has gone. Check the condit of your charging sys. Could be charging low at idle. Bring the rpm's up to around 2k with it in drive and see if that speeds up the blinker. Other than that, I know there is something in the steering column that is responsible for the blinker, but I am not sure what it is called because I have never replaced it b4.
I would venture to say that a major majority of weird electrical problems you encounter, can be attributed to bad grounds. Your front and rear turn signal lights use the housing for its ground. Side marker and license plate lights have a wire grounded to the body. Unbolt the housings and clean the surfaces then retighten. On the frame grounds, unscrew the screw, clean the metal and lug, then retighten. Sometimes just retightening screws and bolts will do the trick. Also look at the sockets that the lights go into, They need to be clean. These bulbs get ground through the base of the bulb. Make sure your battery ground wire is good. From the factory, the ground wire had a lug which bolted to the base of the voltage regulator, which is screwed to the chassis. This was the major ground for the chassis. Usually replacement cables don't have this lug. If you keep eating voltage regulators, this is probably the reason why. The absent of a good ground to your voltage regulator will cause charging problems. If you don't have this lug, I would get some at least, 12ga wire and make a ground directly from the battery, to the voltage regulator. Make sure the metal under the regulator is clean also, so the ground is connected to the chassis too. Also see that you have a good ground strap from the motor block to the frame somewhere.
i was going to say the smae thing...except my turn signals have a ground wire. they dont use the headlight housing..i jsut had this problem whilst replacing my grille..i forgot to screw the ground wire in all the way...
