Indicators mystery - please help!

[Aircooledwagon]

Hi folks, I have been without indicators for months and can’t get to the bottom of it.

82 Aircooled 2.0 - very primitive fuse box etc.

The hazards work fine but I just get a solid light on dash when trying to indicate, no clicking coming from relay.

I have already fitted the following;

A new relay (#21)
A new indicator stalk
New bulbs all round
A new hazard light switch

I can’t see any obvious breaches anywhere although it is very much spaghetti junction behind dash and I don’t really know what goes where. There have been lots of additions and there are lots of redundant wires etc as you’d expect.

I have cleaned up and check all the fuses and earthing points that I can see and still no joy.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

[SurfT25]

Could be your indicator arm switch. Remove the steering cover and check the connections.

[Aircooledwagon]

Hi mate, do you mean the actual indicator stalk itself as I have a brand new one on there? Cheers

[Mocki]

My only experience simular to this when fault finding the same as you describe turned out to be a flat two pin in line connector with green wires on the o/s of the fuse box loom with poor connections , I can’t remember much other than this , i have been trying to bring it to mind since i first saw your post . This was on a 82 diesel panel van that had been messed with quite a lot
Might be worth a look ……

Normally the symptoms you describe are either the hazzard switch ( there are several variants ) or the flasher unit or its connections .

[Aircooledwagon]

Ah ok cheers, I’ll have another rummage when I get a minute and let you know

Do you know by chance what the variations in the different hazard switches are? The hazards worked when the new switch was put in so I’m pretty sure it’s compatible but I’ll consider anything at this stage :s

Cheers again

[Mocki]

Were you experiencing the exact same issue before changing hazzard switch ? Is that why you changed it ?

[clift_d]

When you say you’ve cleaned all the earth points, presumably this includes both the earth crowns that are behind the fuse box under the dashboard on the a-pillar?

You generally need to remove the fuse box to get to them.

[Aircooledwagon]

I changed the hazard switch after I lost my indicators to rule that out as an east fix.

And yes I cleaned up the earth block behind the fuse box by removing the fuse box itself. All those earth connections are clean and making good contact. To be fair, they didn’t look bad before but did it anyway to be sure.

Still very confused :s

[Rik]

I had something similar and it ended up being a fuse that was blown without visual evidence.