Re: 54 Convertible Turn Signal Issues

Posted by DavidPackard On 2022/3/31 10:07:00

54ocmac;

The best I can do would be to explain what I found on my ’54 when the same sort of thing happened.

I had removed the instrument cluster just enough to replace all of the instrument bulbs, and while doing that the cluster fell a bit. At the time I didn’t notice, but one of the turn signal indicator wires had stopped the fall and the terminal became bent straighter than original. Again completely oblivious I reassembled, and the now straight terminal touched the reinforcement brace just behind the cluster providing an unexpected ground path. The result was craziness very much like what you described. By the way I put a couple of thicknesses of gorilla tape on the reinforcement bar . . . just in case.

HH56 advice of a potential ground is quite consistent with my experience. I would be on the look-out for unintentional grounds in the pilot circuits.

dp