Ken G's Journal

The Hazards were working but the turn signals were not, I did a bunch of research on this site (Thank you as always) and it seemed most likely to be either a bad Hazard switch or a bad flasher unit. I looked under the passenger dash and there was NO flasher unit.

So I thought hey this might be an easy one to fix. I went to NAPA and bought a new unit and it didn't fix the problem. More research. I tested the switch directly on the battery and it worked, Tested for power on both sides of the switch installed, and that worked. Tested the power at the positive side of the turn signal stalk, good!. Tested the wire from the stalk to the lights and they worked. CRAP I have a bad switch in my stalk.
Further research to find out that to replace the switch you have to remove the steering wheel, and that doesn't look like fun and might take a week or two for parts and what not.

OK, Back to NAPA and buy a SPDT switch, tap into the existing wire harness (That will be replaced when I get the replacement stalk). Success at least for the short term, at least it fixes the rear lights. The front hazard/ turn lights were still attached to the rubber bumper that had been removed by the previous owner. I'm not really interested in sticking that back on right away so I pulled the front lights out of the bumper, fixed the broken and cut wires and there we have front turn and hazard lights again. Zip tied them to the frame, certainly not a long term fix but serviceable for the next few weeks.

Other items the windshield wipers are now fixed, when I pulled on the steering wheel cowl I found a "bug" in my wiring, yup a dead stink big in the switch, and with the help of my youngest we tested and found the brake lights to be working.

Now I just need to put the hood back on and get enough guts to drive it down the street.