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By timmy4 - 17 Years Ago
I hooked up my taillights and the right directional blinks rapidly but the left blinks very slow and the left rear light is bright. Is that the flasher going bad? I checked the connections on the flasher which looks like it is a bear to unscrew.
By 55Birdman - 17 Years Ago
Try reversing the connections on the tail light. If its reversed the light will be dim. Also check connections to see they are clean,etc grounded properly. If it flashes ok with one side chances are a problem with connection or ground . Should be easy fix. Flasher is a last thing to check.
By paul2748 - 17 Years Ago
Sounds like a ground problem. Put a temporary ground on each light and see if that makes a difference.
By Moz - 17 Years Ago
timmy i agree with birdman & paul a bad ground, usually if the flasher is shot it just wont flash at all on either side.
By timmy4 - 17 Years Ago
Since the right one was working fine I ran a ground wire from the right tail light to the left and still the same results. I bought a flasher from napa but the flasher has 3 terminals on it but my one from the car has 2 is there a way to use the new one if I ground one terminal to the dash board?
By paul2748 - 17 Years Ago
timmy4 (6/7/2008)
Since the right one was working fine I ran a ground wire from the right tail light to the left and still the same results. I bought a flasher from napabut the flasher has 3 terminals on it but my one from the car has 2 is there a way to use the new one if I ground one terminal to the dash board?


Don't ground one light to the other. Ground each light to the body/frame



As far as the 3 prong flasher, you should be able to use it. I am helping a guy with a 55 TBird (6 volt, pos ground) and we used a three prong in place of the two prong. Signals work great. Only problem is, I cannot remember what prong we didn't use. The flasher should be grounded by the case, not any of the prongs.
By DANIEL TINDER - 17 Years Ago
Paul,



Do you remember the source/part# of that flasher? 6V units of the CORRECT value not easy to obtain these days. The only one I have ever found that worked perfectly (including a truly AUDIBLE click) was a shorter-type, NOS FoMoCo part.
By timmy4 - 17 Years Ago
I called napa and they said they never heard of a 2 prong 6 volt flasher and I can't send it back because he said he had to special order it so I will try and make it work
By paul2748 - 17 Years Ago
DANIEL TINDER (6/9/2008)
Paul,



Do you remember the source/part# of that flasher? 6V units of the CORRECT value not easy to obtain these days. The only one I have ever found that worked perfectly (including a truly AUDIBLE click) was a shorter-type, NOS FoMoCo part.




Daniel I believe he got it from Larry's TBird parts www.larrystbird.com The clicking was not real loud. I just looked in his catalog - part # T13350A