I need yellow rear indicators
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I need yellow rear indicators
Just come back from the garage and they say that my 1984 ford econoline needs yellow rear indicators and the brake lights not to flash when on to pass it's MOT (yearly roadworthy test).. even tho it passed last year!
So I order up some yellow lights and open up my fresh Chilton manual to find there's not a wiring diagram in there
..anyway. Does someone have the diagram of the relevant bit or describe to me how that bit works.
tia, Andy.
So I order up some yellow lights and open up my fresh Chilton manual to find there's not a wiring diagram in there
..anyway. Does someone have the diagram of the relevant bit or describe to me how that bit works.
tia, Andy.
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I am going to do some guessing.
Are you overseas? I know they usually require seperate turnsignal lamps.
Is this a US made imported vehicle? It sounds like it since it only has red tailights.
If it does only have red tailights, and you want to add yellow ones, you are going to have to do a bit of wiring front to rear to seperate the turnsignals from the brakelights, which are intergrated on a US vehicle.
Are you overseas? I know they usually require seperate turnsignal lamps.
Is this a US made imported vehicle? It sounds like it since it only has red tailights.
If it does only have red tailights, and you want to add yellow ones, you are going to have to do a bit of wiring front to rear to seperate the turnsignals from the brakelights, which are intergrated on a US vehicle.
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yeah.. sorry, I didn't say.. I'm in the UK and it's a US vehicle that flashes the stop lamps for the indicators.
I rekcon I can just wire some rear yellow lights from the front ones.. that's the easy bit... but working out how to stop the brake lights flashing is what I don't know.
I'll take a look in the daylight tomorrow and see if it's obvious
I rekcon I can just wire some rear yellow lights from the front ones.. that's the easy bit... but working out how to stop the brake lights flashing is what I don't know.
I'll take a look in the daylight tomorrow and see if it's obvious
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Hooking the new rear yellow lights to the front ones is a good idea and sounds easy.
What you need to do to keep the rear red lights from flashing is bypass the turnsignal switch.
What you have is the flasher wire, and the brake light wire from the pedal switch both feeding the turnsignal switch. The turnsignal switch is fairly complicated inside, and it co-ordinates the flasher signal and the brake light signal to the proper light bulb in the back.
What you need to do is find the wire for each rear red bulb running up the steering column. You also need to find the brake light wire coming from the brake pedal switch, which also runs up the steering column. You need to cut and twist all 3 of these wires together, so when you push on the brake pedal, the rear lights get straight power from the pedal switch, and are not affect by the turnsignal switch.
Here is a link to a diagram that may help out with the wire colors.
http://www.autozone.com/images/cds/g...3d800ce991.gif
Looks like the right rear turn/brake is orange/lightblue
the left rear turn/brake is lightgreen/orange.
The wire from the brake switch is lightgreen.
So cut and tie these three wires together at the steering column.
What you need to do to keep the rear red lights from flashing is bypass the turnsignal switch.
What you have is the flasher wire, and the brake light wire from the pedal switch both feeding the turnsignal switch. The turnsignal switch is fairly complicated inside, and it co-ordinates the flasher signal and the brake light signal to the proper light bulb in the back.
What you need to do is find the wire for each rear red bulb running up the steering column. You also need to find the brake light wire coming from the brake pedal switch, which also runs up the steering column. You need to cut and twist all 3 of these wires together, so when you push on the brake pedal, the rear lights get straight power from the pedal switch, and are not affect by the turnsignal switch.
Here is a link to a diagram that may help out with the wire colors.
http://www.autozone.com/images/cds/g...3d800ce991.gif
Looks like the right rear turn/brake is orange/lightblue
the left rear turn/brake is lightgreen/orange.
The wire from the brake switch is lightgreen.
So cut and tie these three wires together at the steering column.
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Thanks for the info ...
What I think I will do is connect the new yellow lights to the current stop lamp wires and then disconnect the lightgreen wire which I will run to the back to run both stoplamps.
If I'm thinking right this will mean the hazards will work and also they won't be on all the time like I think the front ones are .. plus I only need 1 wire then
What I think I will do is connect the new yellow lights to the current stop lamp wires and then disconnect the lightgreen wire which I will run to the back to run both stoplamps.
If I'm thinking right this will mean the hazards will work and also they won't be on all the time like I think the front ones are .. plus I only need 1 wire then
