Registry of Ex Military Land Rovers
REMLR Technical => Electrical => Topic started by: Carzee on March 26, 2017, 07:32:03 PM
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I have a indicator issue at the moment.
During the downpour on the Calder Fwy last week or due to the "Prince of darkness" I have had no driver driven indicators since then.
I got out of trouble for the drive home on the Hume (500- 600km distance) by pulling out the rocker switch (which I don't like even when it works) and hot wiring the indicators to the female side of the loom/sockets. I walked 5 mins to a nearby Jaycar in Frankston and spent $6.50 on a metal momentary toggle. I had another metal old school toggle in the spares box which was also given duties. I found out which socket was the 12v power pin and and which was the socket for lefts and rights lights and wired up the wife accordingly so she could select L or R on one toggle and then flash on/off with the new toggle at the tempo of BeeGees Staying Alive which is ADR Australian Std flasher timing. (joke). Anyway, worked perfect. Still set up while I ponder what to do.
Has anyone dumped the rocker switch and set up better toggles?
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...should add that I have some issues with the plastic switch panel that they use. I have seen thicker plastic on a Wiggles lunchbox. So that bit of scrap flat aluminium will get used and sprayed black. I will also use a toggle for the interior/cabin light.
So I expect if I study the hazard section of the wiring schematic included in VEH_G092_LandRover_110_4x4_RFSV_Modified_Technical_description.pdf
or in
http://www.remlr.com/documents/Wiring/VEH%20G133%20ISS%203_1_of_3.pdf
...it should all work out?
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Bad luck mate and well played.
Just a question does your indicator stalk have any play or ever-so-slightly drops in positions it may be the little spring tension in the contacts? Or crud in there? Common I believe.
If you need to replace it spring yourself a genuine one. I may have the genuine Lucas part number around if you want me to look for it and its cheaper to buy it as a Lucas preplacement part than a Genuine Land Rover packaged Lucas Part. I went the Genuine Lucas from England and it saved me heaps.
A test lamp with a sound function is going to help you find what’s wrong fast.
Something else I worked out was the Land Rover harness plugs come apart much easier if you warm them up with a heat gun. Learnt this the hard way after breaking some pins.
The fact that you can get it to work by bypassing the stalk I think the wet was just a coincidence.
Mate there are others here that know the sparks better than me I'm sure they will chime in here soon.
If you want to have a giggle price that Land Rover hazard switch. :o
Cheers Phil
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Fuse 11 [bottom far left] feeds the indicators separately from the hazards so if that fuse is blown it would produce the symptoms you are describing, that would be the first thing I would be checking
Also the first relay on the left in the fuse panel controls the indicators, again separately from the hazards A while back my indicators randomly stopped working, [hazards continued to work] the problem turned out to be dirty terminals on that relay
If I was a betting man I'd say this is where your problem lay
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Hmmm I think I may have misread your problem, haha
oh well - hopefully it's still useful information to someone
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Have a check of your flasher can - behind the fuse panel - I reckon it's upside down and full of water. Tip it out, let it dry and you'll be right as rain. Heh.
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Dervish wins. It was the flasher.
I hunted high and low for my spare flasher unit (correct 1990's blue Hella).
http://www.ozautoelectrics.com/hella-caravan-trailer-conversion-flasher-unit-4-pin-12v-dc.html
I checked the Flasher unit for obvious water content: dry. Checked wiring spades going into the flasher's plastic female loom connector (I have a nifty spade pin release tool). Fresh bright copper wires in the crimps. Hmm, wish I could find the spare.
Pulled and checked relay "11" on the left of the array under the fuses, changed out it out with a same date same age relay I found on feebay. Not a prob there. All good.
Checked the hazard switch, rear of the ignition connectors, checked the indicator stalk and loom, all good.
Then I found the spare blue Hella flasher that was hiding out the back in a footlocker on the bottom of the stack and fitted it to see if the flasher was as healthy as it looked.... but no. It was dead. The spare I put in fixed the indicators. The 'healthy' Hella had become a Norwegian Blue, turned up its toes, joined the choir invisible, gone to meet its maker.... this was an ex-Hella-blue-flasher. It must have drowned in that Melbourne downpour. Should've fixed the vent seals earlier and perhaps this would not have happened.