Front blinker diagram

CoryB · 11-02-2003, 01:42 PM

I have three terminals on the front blinker labled: B1 31 57
Does anyone know the combination for the colors of the wires. I have a brown (ground?), black with white stripe (single wire), and white with a black stripe(double wire).

Thanks

Dave at Pelican Parts · Dave at Pelican Parts's Garage

Obviously the left-front signal bucket. The numbers don't match the ones on the wiring diagram, which is a bit odd....

Brown is ground--on these cars, always. Unless someone has done some re-wiring. The double grey/black is the "parking light"; one of those wires connects to the side marker as well. The black/white is the turn signal wire.

Remove the light bulb from the socket. You'll see two brass tabs down at the bottom. Those are the "power" connections to the bulb.

Use your continuity tester or ohmmeter to check resistance from one terminal to each of those two tabs, and also to the sides of the light bulb socket. The one that connects through to the sides of the socket gets the brown ground wire. The other two can be switched around. It doesn't really matter which you use for which, as long as the ground is the correct one.

--DD

914GT · 11-02-2003, 02:27 PM

I went through this same thing a few weeks ago. The numbers on the light didn't correlate with anything on the diagram. I pulled out the bulb and buzzed out the common terminal, made that the ground wire (brown). Then the other two I hooked up by trial-and-error so the parking light was the dim filament and the turn signal the brighter filament. I knew I should have wrote this down on my scchematic diagram but I forgot.

philinjax · 11-02-2003, 02:28 PM

The brown wire goes to pin 31. BL (not B1) and 57 are either one or the other of flasher or running light (parking light) elements in the 1157 bulb in the turn signal light fixture. Switch these around so that you get the corrrect "bright" light flash when the turn signals are selected and the lower level light when just the parking lights are on.
Good luck at it,
Phil

914GT · 11-02-2003, 02:29 PM

Dave's got the answer, and beat me by 1 min. I'll put this on the diagram for next time.

Dave at Pelican Parts · Dave at Pelican Parts's Garage

If it's really BL, then that would be the turn signal contact. Hook the black/white wire to that one.

I had forgotten that one of the filaments was brighter than the other...

--DD

BARRY MISHLER · BARRY MISHLER's Garage

I`m having trouble with my left front signal also. When I turn on the signal dash lights fluter and no signal flash , then it blows the fuse. Right one works fine. Any ideas?

CoryB · 11-02-2003, 06:47 PM

Thanks for the help...I got all of the blinkers working. But, now when I turn on the headliights a fuse blows and the right side headlight goes out only. I'm guessing I have a shorted wire in the blinker area now? Or, could this new blown fuse mess be caused by a short anywhere on the car...I know I have some loose wires hanging around in the guage cluster area...but this headlight was working before I got the blinkers set up correctly(or maybe the wires are backwards on the right side blinkers, could that blow a fuse?) Where should I begin to look for the cause?

Thanks

Dave at Pelican Parts · Dave at Pelican Parts's Garage

Which fuse blows? Each headlight filament has one, and power for the headlight motors goes through another. And I believe that power to the parking lights (which also come on with the headlights) goes through a third.

Barry, sounds like your wiring is suspect. Or possibly the bulb or the socket. Rapid flashing is an indicator of either a blown bulb, or too-low resistance in the circuit. A blown fuse is an indicator of something shorting to ground. I'll betcha that your left-front or left-rear turn signal wiring is mixed up.

--DD

CoryB · 11-02-2003, 09:01 PM

Dave, thank you for your replies

The fuse that keeps blowing it #4 (from the left.) I also hooked up the tail lights this weekend...right rear blinker works, but I'll re check all terminals back there just incase ive got one mixed up.

Dave at Pelican Parts · Dave at Pelican Parts's Garage

Fuse info can be found here: http://www.pelicanparts.com/914/technical_specs/914_electrical_fuses.htm

Depending on which way yours are numbered (I never remember...), you have a short somewhere in the left low beam circuit, or in the tail lights/turn signals. Check the wiring diagrams for more details on what runs off of those circuits.

--DD

airbill337 · 11-23-2003, 10:43 PM

I have a problem with my rear lights, the fronts ( headlights, turn signals, hazzards, parking and fog ) works perfectly but my rears seems to have an attitute problem. I looks like it was rewired at one time and everything is screwed up now. No reverse lights, left brake light works, running lights works and my hazzards don't work. Can someone tell me the colors of wires and bulbs are suppose to be be in their perspective places.