Re: [Amc-list] Turn Signals

[Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>]

This is on the 63 American? As other have stated, check the flasher first. It's cheap enough to just put in a new replacement. After that you can check the grounds, but you really need to know if you are getting a signal to the lights. There's a connector on the wires that come out of the steering column. Disconnect it. Connect a jumper wire to the blue wire connector (dash side, not steering column side). That blue wire comes from the flasher and is the power wire. Ground it and the flasher should work (click). Now touch your jumper wire to the other connections (except green). The orange and white wires go to the rear, left and right respectively. Green comes from the brake light switch. When the brakes are applied there should be power on the green wire, otherwise it should be dead. Brown is right front, yellow left front. There should be two wires on each of those, one to the front lights and one to the dash turn signal indicators. When you connect the jumper wire to each
  of the signal lights they should flash. If the flasher doesn't click or you don't get the lights to come on, try jumping straight from a good +12V power source (there's a couple on the fuse box, or off the back of the switch) to the lights and see if they come on. If you aren't getting lights from +12V you either have a ground or wiring problem. The switch in the column itself is bad if you can get lights with the jumper wire. 

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Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:23:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Joe Smith <know_ware@xxxxxxxxx>

The turn signals have never worked on this car for what little time I have had it. 

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