Re: GTV Flasher unit

[Kevin Trent <trentkc@domain.elided>]

If your flasher is operating the outside turn signal lights, the problem 
may just be a nonfunctional bulb in the instrument cluster.  And that non 
functional bulb may be the result of poor contact between the bulb and its 
little twist-in-the-back-of-the-circuit-board holder, or the holder and its 
contact on the circuit board.  Pretty easy to diagnose: disconnect the 
battery, remove the two screws on either side of the instrument cluster, 
gently wriggle the cluster out of the dash toward the steering wheel (helps 
to push on the tach and speedo cables from the engine bay), and you should 
have access to the back of the cluster.  You can test the bulb in the 
holder by applying electricity to the copper tangs, if bulb does not come 
on, remove it and pull out they tiny wires from the glass to make better 
contact with the holder's clips.  If the bulb then works, reinstall the 
holder and twist it a few times to scrape a good contact with the circuit 
board.    //kct, Powell, TN


At 05:24 AM 4/9/02 -0400, you wrote:

>Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:31:14 -0400
>From: "Buchignani, Walter (mon_exchange)" <walterb@domain.elided>
>Subject: GTY FLASHER UNIT
>
>friends,
>anyone know where i can pick up a flasher unit for my 1974 2000 GTV? i
>recently changed the column switch, which fixed a bunch of problems, but not
>the lack of a flashing green in the instrument cluster. i'm told the flasher
>unit is the culprit.
>thanks.
>walter
>in montreal

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