blinkers not working......

[stallion85]

Will the blinker relay going out allow my 4 ways to work, but not my blinkers? When I turn the headlights on both the blinkers light up inside on the dash, but do not respond to the column switch. The 4 ways work fine though.....

What's going on?

 

[JEBSR]

Yes it can. Could be several things though. I would swap that out first as cheap as they are.

 

[makovai]

You're low on Blinker Fluid.





Sorry Jeff. Couldn't resist...

 

[JEBSR]

 

[stallion85]

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Napa said they were all out

 

[diesel4me]

has 2 flashers...

Will the blinker relay going out allow my 4 ways to work, but not my blinkers? When I turn the headlights on both the blinkers light up inside on the dash, but do not respond to the column switch. The 4 ways work fine though.....

What's going on?

The 4 ways have a separate flasher of thier own..both the flashers are in the fuse box..

If your turn signal idicators glow when you put the headlights on, there is probably a bad ground causing a feedback,or one or more directional bulbs may have one filament broken, and its laying over onto the other filament in the bulb,that is for the parking lights..or a bad flasher can do it too..time to start checking bulbs and wires..hope its not your directional switch,that can cause this too,but they dont fail very often..

I think you can swap the 4 way flasher for the directional one, to test if the directional one is faulty--they have the same 2 prong setup..

 

[stallion85]

Went to the JY today and grabbed three relays. Turns out it was a relay as my blinkers work again

The blinker lights still glow when the head lights are on. I will check what Diesel4me has suggested.

I thouroughly enjoyed my trip to the yard this morning. Me, a bag full of tools, and a 100 chevy's to pillage from.......it was the best part of my week so far.

 

[FWP]

Yup, Bad ground or unhooked somewhere. Had the exact same thing happen, I accidentally cut a ground wire when "cleaning" up the wiring... Ha, took me 3 hours to figure out what I had done