No 4 way flasher switched installed...

[EverRude]

My brake light circuit was bypassed by a PO. The brake lights work but he bypassed the blinkers and 4 way flashers to do it.

Blinkers don't work. They still appear to be wired normally.

No 4 way flasher switch is installed. Could this be a reason the blinkers dont work and the brake light circuit was bypassed with a splice?

If so can I jumper the flasher switch to get things working till I get a 4 way flasher switch or should I just locate a flasher switch and keep things the way they are till I have it?

Thanks

BTW I asked this as part of the daily update to my "3 years of sitting..." thread in the members help forum. Don't mean to double post the question but want to make sure I get answer as fast as possible.

[Arne]

The turn signal circuits pass through the hazard switch. They won't work without the hazard switch unless you do a lot more by-passing.

As an aside, the brake lights pass through the hazard switch too. A bad hazard switch was probably the root cause of all this.

In fact, since the brake lights and rear turn signals use the same bulbs, you'll probably need to un-bypass the brakes to get the rear turn signals to work.

Edited April 1, 2011 by Arne

[EverRude]

So I need a hazard switch? there's no way to use a jumper wire to bypass the flasher switch to allow power to continue past the missing switch in the interim?

[Arne]

It's more than one wire you'd have to jump. At least two, maybe four. Plus you may need to un-jump the brake light circuit and re do it differently. Hard to say for certain without seeing exactly what was done.

[JohnnyO]

So the brakes run through the 4 way too. That's good to know. I do have a Series 1 4-way if you need it. Let me know.

John

[EverRude]

PM sent JohnnyO

[EverRude]

It's more than one wire you'd have to jump. At least two, maybe four. Plus you may need to un-jump the brake light circuit and re do it differently. Hard to say for certain without seeing exactly what was done.

I'll come up with a switch. Prefer to have my blinkers but I can get by without them for awhile. Atleast brake lights work but I will repair a few of the "twist-n-tape" connections made in that splice for now.

The more I look at this wiring harness the more I can see that someone, for some time, spent effort to keep it somewhat right. Some PO went through enormous effort to splice an entirely different fuse panel to the existing harness (presumably when the old fuse panel fried).

Ofcourse I sure wish they had saved themselves all that work and simply gotten another fuse panel from the same year car or the MSA panel. But nope. They cut harness connectors to fuse panel then proceeded to connect wires using butt splices. The new panel is larger but still has glass tubes. Betting it's from a later year Z. Still a completely different fuse panel spliced in, wire by wire, and the only thing (aside from this missing flasher switch) that doesn't work is the fuel guage. All guages and guage lights work. Even the brake pressure switch light works. Back up lights work. Alt works. Overall I think someone did a good job. The potential was there for many more issues.

This brake light splice, and 4 way flasher switch thing, is clearly someone else's last minute hack job. Well. Actually all of it was a hack job. But some was better performed than others.

Edited April 2, 2011 by EverRude

[darom]

EverRude, before you installed the hazard switch, take it apart (4 small screws) and clean the contacts inside with a fine grit sand paper. It will take you a few minutes.