Turn Signal indicators, 2 instead of 1 Options

[John]

Has anyone rewired a later model car to that of an early model car to get individual turn signal indiators?

The early style was wired so that each indicator light (in the tach) had one of the turn signal wires (black/white stripe or black/green stripe) and the blue/white stripe.

As far as I can tell, the flasher relay is the same, but the wiring is different due to the fact that the 1974 and later cars only had the single indicator light in the tach. The 74 wiring diagram shows the indicator light wired to the blue/white stripe and ground.

Is this rihgt or not.

maybe I'll wire it up and find out.....

[jk76.914]

That's right. I didn't want to pull out the emergency flasher switch though. It looked like too much disassembly, and right now, I'm trying to focus on assembly! So once I dropped the fuse panel, I found the correct wires running overhead of it and cut them and spliced them right there on the spot.

In the photo, the spot I found is above the rear edge (rear being toward the rear of the car) of the fuse panel, about just below the hazzard flasher switch.

Wire gauge to the indicator lights doesn't matter really.

The other place I considered tapping into is under the center console/cushion. This same circuit runs to the rear taillights. Finding the wires above the fuse panel was much easier and more straightforward, but that shows how much I didn't want to remove the hazzard switch....

It's easy to cut and splice a very reliable connection. I always solder and then use shrink wrap. Just be sure to slide the shrink over the cut end before you solder. Guess how many times I've learned that? duh.

While I was changing gauges (this is a '76), I rebuilt mine. You may notice the early style gauge faces and pointers, but the later style shallow trim rings... That's because my '76 rings were perfect, but the deep-dish rings on the donar gauges had been repainted with a brush and looked pretty bad. I also kept the early glass lens vs. the later plastic one.... Gave me a chance to fix that blackened high beam indicator lens at the same time. ...I still have to get to the combo gauge....

Looking ahead for once, I also spliced on a second, longer wire lead to each turn signal circuit that I coiled up and stuffed in the console. These will later go to the repeater lights that I am adding later on the sides of the car..... The green wire in the photo is one of these- I've got to dress it better than that!

Good Luck!
Jim