No Brake Lights or Turn Signals. Where to look next?

[kcpope]

SteveJ and zKars, thanks for the input!

Progress, good news!

I went through the inspection points Steve mentioned. When I got to the hazard switch, I figured what the heck, I might as well open it up and clean it up. It honestly looked fine on the inside, but I cleaned it up anyways and lightly sanded the contacts inside. And good news, that brake lights are now working, woohoo!

But still no turn signals, front or rear.

While I was poking around, I came across two female bullet connectors that weren’t connected to anything. One black wire, the other is black with a white (I think) stripe. Any chance these are supposed to go to a turn signal flasher?

Do I even have a turn signal flasher in the dash? Where is it typically located on a 72 Z?

 

 

 

[kcpope]

Well I’ll be dipped!

Reach my hand up under the dash, feeling around for the turn signal flasher, and down dropped these wires, labeled and all! What a deal.

I’ll buy a flasher unit and I think we’ll be in business. Thanks all, and hopefully my saga helps someone down the road.

 

 

[emccallum]

Glad you found it! You may want to consider going with a LED compatible flashers (blinker and hazard). When I put my car back together the running light fuse was getting really hot. I swapped all the bulbs and flashers to LED and it made a huge difference. Several threads on this. I think I bought everything from Amazon.