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Old Jul 12, 2001 | 11:25 AM
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Old Jul 13, 2001 | 12:25 AM
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turn signals too fast

My turn signals go very fast on both sides every light works. Is my flashers going out. Or is the flashers too powerful. my hazards do not work at all unless you push the brake in and out. So I dont think the hazard switch is bad inside the steering column.
 
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Old Jul 13, 2001 | 01:00 AM
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turn signals too fast

Maybe a bad relay?
 
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Old Jul 13, 2001 | 02:25 AM
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turn signals too fast

Did you replace the bulbs recently? If so, you probably got the wrong ones. This is what my Chilton's book says "If a bulb flashes too fast, a heavy-duty bulb has probably been installed in place of a regular bulb."





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Old Jul 13, 2001 | 07:36 AM
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turn signals too fast

You may have a flasher installed that is supposed to run more or less lights than what you have. When it flashes fast, that means it doesn't have the load on it its supposed to. It's a bonus feature to realize that you have a bulb out.
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Old Jul 13, 2001 | 05:11 PM
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turn signals too fast

Same thing happened to me about a month ago. It was the flasher relay.
 
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Old Jul 13, 2001 | 08:41 PM
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My turn signals go very fast on both sides every light works. Is my flashers going out. Or is the flashers too powerful. my hazards do not work at all unless you push the brake in and out. So I dont think the hazard switch is bad inside the steering column.
Sounds like the "flasher unit" is dying, or your lights are drawing more current than they use to.
The way I understand it the older flasher units work on current draw thru a bimetalic strip and electrical contacts. As the bimetalic strip heats it bends, one side has a different thermal expansion rate then the other as each side is a different metal.....hence bimetalic name, and the contacts are opened and closed this way.
The more current draw there is the faster the bimetalic strip in the unit heats up. Whenever it reaches it's magic heat point the contacts open and the lights go off. Then the strip cools and the contacts are closed and the lights come on. Then so on and so on.
You see this fast flashing quite often when you add a trailer light circuit to the truck. More lights so more current draw, so the faster the flashing. This is cured by going to a heavy duty flasher unit, which are more often now an electronic type unit which are full of electromagnets and resistors and all kinds of cool stuff to make them flash
As for your emergency flashers. That is kind of neat The emergency flashers don't "usually" work with the brakes on, neither do the rear signal lights. They all use the same filament in the rear bulbs, and the brakes have first priority the way the truck is normally wired. hhhmmmnnn
Sorry for the long winded post, I kind of got off on "an electrical theory according to Sparky" lecture

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Old Jul 13, 2001 | 08:50 PM
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turn signals too fast

This will often happen when hooked up to trailer lights. Using a heavy duty(towing) flasher will usually cure this, but if you have a bulb go out with a HD flasher, the other bulb(s) will still flash normally. With the std. duty flasher, the other light(s) will light up, but not flash to warn you of the dead bulb. If your turn signals are flashing rapidly only on one side, then look for a partial short somewhere. If the left and right both flash rapidly, then replace the flasher; get the HD if you do any towing or have additional lights hooked up to the turn signals.
 
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turn signals too fast

you have the wrong relay, your other was probably a higher resistance, you now have a lower resistance which makes it go faster.
 
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