Signals acting up

[SteveJ]

If @grannyknot was operating the hazard switch in between the successful and failed operations in his video, I might be inclined to think that. 

[Yarb]

My mistake I thought everything was changed out to LED bulbs. With the harness/switch issues a lot of folks are experiencing.

[grannyknot]

Okay, I know what I'm doing tomorrow, go through the entire path from the switch to bulb and back.  Thanks guys.

[grannyknot]

Success, I did the ohm readings and you can see from my chart compared to Steve's chart that the left #4 terminal and the right #6 terminal where not getting power from #5.   I took the switch apart again and bent the #4 and #6 contacts down a fraction of a millimetre and I also put a thin spacer under the spring so the contact toggle would make firm contact when switched to left or right.

It is working perfectly now.

Thanks @SteveJ

 

[SteveJ]

So my wife is wrong. I AM good for something!

I'm glad you could get to the bottom of your problem.

Edited March 12 by SteveJ

[Zpenman]

Amazing that old flasher is still ticking!

[cgsheen1]

Now that the contacts are burnished they will develop arc burns faster and fail sooner. Driving mine daily in Phoenix they'd last about 6 months before I'd need to take the switch apart and clean them again (that's with a fair amount of surface street and freeway driving - meaning a fair amount of signaling). After 5 or 6 iterations I gave up and found a "new" switch (that had fewer miles on it). It's been going for three or four years without any problems. I actually wish there was a way to recoat the contacts.