Indicators

[jaekl]

A factory installed DB110 was only used with very specific wiring harness and light function. With that information along with using "two wires" to connect the flashers, I saw a need to provide advice. However, now I'm stuck trying to explain what I'm talking about. In the meantime you've confirmed that you do not have combined rear lights but separate bulbs for indicators. I'm still curious why you have a DB110 because the only reason they were used was to deal with combined rear lights. Since your Minor is a pull start vintage, I suspect someone added the DB10 relay to eliminate the trafficators and then someone else (or the same person) added separate rear indicators. Perhaps they went to the trouble of exchanging the wiring harness to a USA market version. If not you could consider removing the DB10 and simply run wires to the four lights simply connected to the feed to the trafficator and inserting a flasher unit to the feed into the turn indicator switch. Now your aftermarket four way flasher system would connect directly to those wires.

You may do whatever you wish with the above.

[geoberni]

You're only stuck explaining yourself because you made false assumptions without asking questions first and confused matters.

From your post

How did you wire the four way flasher into the DB10? Depending on how you did it, power can back feed into the ignition circuits and the engine can run on each flash. My experience is once the ignition issue is resolve, you'll find that the flashers will not work indefinitely. Either the flasher unit overheats or the DB10 overheats and the lights no longer flash. Once cooled though everything is fine again.

I can't decide if you are just working your way around the wiring diagram theorising, or you once tried to fit a Hazard Switch to a DB10 system and made a hash of it.

Bill has only recently brought his car and as far as we can tell it, it was built to DB10 standard and like many cars of that period, when separate indicators became the legal standard for new cars in the UK, a great many owners made a simple modification of separating the brake lights, front side lights and indicators.
What Bill describes is how many surviving 61-63 cars in the UK are now configured.

Some of what you said may not read right due to transatlantic terminology differences, but Bill's car is working how it needs it to.
That's all that matters.

[jaekl]

I apologize. I check in daily and with the short pause in the post I lost track of the original part of the post that describe the set up. Had I gone back and re-read the whole post then all fits together and simply using terminals 2 and 6 for both left lights and both right lights does the job for both turn signals and four way flashers.

I will add that your DB110 is functioning (the click you hear is the solenoid closing) and that gives you an option to reconnect wire from the brake switch and also connect the wire to the brake lights to the original terminal of the DB10. This will increase visibility of your Minor for people behind you. The result is both the brake lights and turn indicators will will glow for the brakes. If a turn indicator is also required that side will start to flash. It's more likely to get the attention of someone behind you. Although it may not be legal in all areas. I do know of a Chevrolet that was accidently produce that way and operating as such for a few years before the owner had it fixed. It prompted me to do the same thing on my van which also had the DB10 (USA market Series III) on which I added separate turn indicators and yes, four way flashers. I used a pull type light switch to activate both solenoids in the DB10. I don't recommend doing that. If you do reconnect the brake lights to the DB10 then you will have to connect your four way switch to terminals 2, 3, 6, and 7. A diode in the line to the brake lights would solve the other problem.

Sometimes there is just too much going on the the Minor world to keep it all straight.