Signal lights

[Venturous Randy]

After my engine swap, my signal lights or emergency flashers are not working. I have not started looking at the wiring or anything, but looking for suggestions.

RandyA

[billmac]

check the fuse then the connections. may have pinched a wire somewhere.

[Yammer Dan]

Check fuses first but if fuse why?

Did you pinch something that is going togive you trouble down the road?

[bongobobny]

You forgot to plug in the 4 way flasher connector, the turn signals go through it...

[Flyinfool]

You forgot to plug in the 4 way flasher connector, the turn signals go through it...

 

That was my first thought also. Don't ask how I know about that one.

[Venturous Randy]

Grandson and I spent a couple hours tracing circuits and still did not fix the signal lights, but the emergency flashers are working.

We swapped out the reserve light unit, the turn signal cancel unit and the flasher unit and still no go. One of the things I am seeing is the yellow/red wire that comes to the signal switch is only getting about 6.6 volts. On Shane's 83, he is getting about 12 volts on that wire. I may do a 12 volt jumper to that wire and see if it makes a difference.

RandyA

[Neil86]

Randy....

 

unplug the cancel unit and try holding the turn signal switch left and right and see if

the signals operate normally till you release the switch.

 

If they operate normally check the connector for the cancel unit, cleaning contacts and retry with it plugged in.

Still no go, I would trade the cancel unit with the grandsons bike and see if the problem follows the cancel unit.

[Venturous Randy]

Randy....

 

unplug the cancel unit and try holding the turn signal switch left and right and see if

the signals operate normally till you release the switch.

 

If they operate normally check the connector for the cancel unit, cleaning contacts and retry with it plugged in.

Still no go, I would trade the cancel unit with the grandsons bike and see if the problem follows the cancel unit.

 

We did try the cancel unit from Shane's bike and it did not help. I will pull the headlight again and look at some more stuff after while.

Thanks for the responses.

RandyA

[Venturous Randy]

It's fixed, I got em back.

After riding the bike for a few more days, I knew I had to do something as I am an avid signal light user.

My grandson, Shane, has been helping me and this afternoon he went to the garage and studied the large schematic I have taped on the cabinet and traced a common link with the emergency flashers to a connection and found corrosion on one of the pins. He cleaned it up and now it is working. It was the connection right behind the right front signal light that goes to the emergency flasher switch.

That boy makes me proud.

RandyA

[Woody]

a chip off the ol block, glad you got it going